Audi e-tron Formula E cars on their way to Riyadh with Ten Tons of 'stuff'

Race cars, spare parts and racing suits, in total, ten tons of precious Formula E freight all on the way to Saudi Arabia.

• Season opens in Diriyah (Saudi Arabia) on November 22 and 23

• Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler to race with Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi

About two weeks before the first race of the new Formula E season, a total of ten containers and boxes from the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team have left Germany on their way to Saudi Arabia, where the first two races will be held on November 22 and 23.

Two complete Audi e-tron FE06 cars and a whole host of spare parts and equipment, from body components to cleaning agents, plus all of the items needed by Daniel Abt and Lucas di Grassi, are included in the total of some ten tons of cargo. Logistics expert DHL picked up the crates at the team’s base in Kempten and hauled them to the Stuttgart airport, from where they will be flown directly to Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh. On November 19, at 9 o’clock in the morning, the teams will be allowed to open the cargo boxes in the pit lane. 

It is a long journey that the precious cargo has embarked on: Following the first two races, it will travel directly to Chile and from there to one race after the other. The crates will only return to Kempten after the Formula E finale in London next July. That is why any in-season work on the race cars can only be performed in the trackside garages – which is unique in international motorsport and poses a special challenge to the mechanics, engineers and logisticians of the twelve teams.