The FIA and Formula One have introduced that they may establish a collaboration with the long run Extreme H sequence which is able to grow to be the world’s first off-road hydrogen motor racing championship.
The present Extreme E sequence will probably be rebranded as Extreme H as the electrical off-road sequence is about to change to hydrogen from 2025. Formula 1 and the game’s governing physique, the FIA have revealed that they’re becoming a member of the rebranded sequence in organising a joint hydrogen working group.
The group, comprised of representatives from all three organisations together with Mark Grain, Extreme E Technical Director – who’s main the sequence’ transition to Extreme H – Pat Symonds, F1 Chief Technical Officer, and Nikolas Tombazis, FIA Single Seater Director, will deliver collectively their collective experience in a strategic alliance to guage developments and potential functions for hydrogen inside motorsport and wider mobility.
Speaking of the collaboration, Mark Grain, Technical Director, Extreme E, stated: “It’s a privilege to be working alongside Formula 1 and the FIA as we proceed to develop our world-first hydrogen racing proposition.
“Our transition to Extreme H makes us the pioneers and first-ever testbed of hydrogen know-how in motorsport – not solely in our racing vehicles, but in addition transportation, infrastructure, refuelling processes and security laws. It’s a ground-breaking initiative and we stay up for collaborating with Formula 1 and Pat [Symonds] each technically and operationally, as we proceed to champion new applied sciences and break boundaries on behalf of motorsport, with hydrogen on the forefront.”
The goal of the Hydrogen Working Group between Formula 1, the FIA and Extreme H is to observe the development and improvement of hydrogen know-how – each for the gas cells and battery methods which will probably be utilized in Extreme H’s first-generation racing chassis – in addition to hydrogen know-how inside race web site infrastructure, transportation, charging, storage and administration, and its security implications.
Extreme E, which debuted in 2021, has already established itself as a frontrunner in sustainable applied sciences, with a novel racing format that mixes off-road racing in electrical SUVs, a compulsory gender-equal driver line-up in every staff, and a mission to focus on local weather change points and environmental affect. In March 2022, it introduced plans to transition to the first-ever hydrogen-powered racing sequence – Extreme H – from the 2025 season.
Development of the primary Extreme H sequence is underway, with plans in place to launch a prototype hydrogen-powered chassis with its companion Spark with a primary full-speed shakedown in the direction of the top of this 12 months, forward of a complete testing programme in early 2024.
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Extreme E is to establish a Hydrogen Working Group with F1 and the FIA forward of the launch of Extreme H in 2025.
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There is already loads of crossover in addition to scope for cooperation within the alliance between F1 and Extreme E: three of Extreme E’s groups are owned by F1 World Champions Sir Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button, and McLaren Racing has groups each in Extreme E and Formula E.
Commenting on the announcement, Nikolas Tombazis, FIA Single Seater Director, added: “As the governing physique for each the FIA Formula 1 World Championship and the upcoming FIA Extreme H Championship in 2025, we welcome this newest collaboration.
“The FIA Technical Department has expertise and knowhow within the space of hydrogen know-how which we are going to deliver to the Working Group together with sporting, security and regulatory experience. As is at the moment the case throughout the whole FIA motorsport portfolio, we are going to take learnings from this collaboration for the good thing about our sport and mobility.”
Pat Symonds, Chief Technical Officer, Formula 1, commented: “Our sport has a practice of bringing new applied sciences to the forefront of public notion in extremely quick timescales. We do that by being open-minded to all options and embracing cross-functional engineering. With local weather change mitigation on the forefront of everybody’s thoughts we’re dedicated to selling sustainability and subsequently have to discover all areas of decarbonisation of the mobility sector.
“This should embrace sustainable liquid hydrocarbon fuels, electrification and hydrogen. This Working Group allows a collaboration which is able to enable us to realize first-hand expertise and contribute to the understanding and improvement of the various points of hydrogen propulsion that Extreme H will embrace.”
