The entry of Lola and Yamaha has been confirmed in the Formula E circus, now remains to be known with which license they will race starting from 2025 as announced yesterday.
The license is the key that allows a team to race in the electric single-seater category, currently there are eleven teams and one free license, that of Techeetah which after retiring in 2023 at the end of Gen2 no longer renewed its participation.
In a growing category like Formula E, where we can glimpse a long and rosy future despite the delicate moments; a license is very expensive to buy, as long as you can find someone willing to sell it.
Beyond Techeetah, the only one to give the license back to Formula E was Audi when he left the category; which she then went back to being occupied by the original owner at the time of the founding of Formula E, namely ABT Sportsline.
And here comes the interesting thought, because ABT is currently looking for a powertrain to use as early as next season, whereas Mahindra did not renew the contract due to several reasons is that the negotiations that were carried out with Porsche for a second supply after Andretti they didn’t work out.
At the moment the team based in Kempten, Bavaria is the only one looking for a new powertrain.
Both during the presentation of Lola Yamaha and at other moments on Thursday, we first asked Mark Preston which license they will enter with and then other people close to the team; but we only managed to get them to say that the announcement will be made in a few days without specifying when. So it makes you think… why so much secrecy if they used the Techeetah license?.
From another source, Electric Motor News’ Long Ear learned that the final agreement was signed in Tokyo the day before the official presentation; Therefore our conclusion from this analysis is directed towards the entry of Lola and Yamaha as suppliers to the ABT team.
But will it be the ABT Cupra Lola Yamaha team?. In fact, there is no direct competition between all the companies, given that the first makes tuning, the second cars, the third chassis and the fourth motorcycles. Only the name would be a bit long…
In a few days we will know the second chapter of this troubled story…
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