Williams Advanced Engineering, from Formula E to eWRX

This weekend's New York event in Formula E marks the end of a first era in the championship. The current chassis will compete in their last two races not far from Manhattan, before seeing the arrival in 2018-2019 of Gen 2, largely evolved in terms of aerodynamics, but also performance.

A development which will result in particular in the arrival of new batteries developed by McLaren, which will notably make it possible to eliminate the mid-race car change seen so far in Formula E.

McLaren thus replaces Williams Advanced Engineering for the supply of the energy storage system. But the satellite structure of the Grove team will have as a new challenge the batteries of the eWRX 2020 soon.

Enough to use all the experience acquired since 2014 in Formula E. “Having driven for four racing seasons, more than 386 km with more than 000% reliability and 99,5% safety is a major achievement for our team, confesses Craig Wilson, Managing Director of Williams Advanced Engineering.

In difficult conditions, on bumpy tracks, with collisions, the batteries have proven themselves both in terms of high performance and safety. These are lessons that we will take to the road with our automotive manufacturing customers.

Following on from this successful partnership with the FIA, we look forward to electrifying the World Championship rallycross 2020 soon. We look forward to continuing our links with Formula E through our technical partnership with Panasonic Jaguar Racing. »

The future electric WRX will offer a new challenge for Williams Advanced Engineering, with constraints very different from those of Formula E. The deployment of raw performance should in particular be at the heart of the concerns of the British entity.