A new Japanese entry dubbed 'Team Yokohama Challenge' will field Takuma Aoki, the first disabled person to compete in an international electric race series, starting with round three at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.[17]
ZEG iCarros Jaguar Brazil expanded their entry to three cars prior to the Mexico City ePrix and added Adalberto Baptista to their lineup.[2]
Jaguar China Racing couldn't fly its standard driver lineup to Mexico City due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the team to replace them with David Cheng and a local driver Manuel Cabrera.[2]
The rescheduled Berlin ePrix saw Sun Chao, Yaqi Zhang (Jaguar China Racing) and Mashhur Bal Hejaila (Saudi Racing) missing the event, with the respective teams using replacement drivers.
Any races scheduled after 1 March 2020 were initially postponed and then cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic until it was announced that the Berlin ePrix will host all of the remaining races in August.[21]
Regulation changes
Technical regulations
The "attack mode" system would be adopted from the parent series after successful trials were completed in New York City in July 2019.[24]
Pre-season
On 3 October 2019, Mark Turner was announced as the series' championship manager. Turner was formerly involved in the Audi R8 LMS Cup, Formula BMW and the SEAT Cupra Championship.[25] The new VIP car was unveiled on the same day, now sporting a black-dominated livery with cyan accents. Pre-season testing began on 28 October at the Bedford Autodrome.[26]
† – Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.
‡ – Qualification was not held[N 5], therefore, no extra point was given for pole position.
^Radermecker only took part in free practice session and his times were not officially recorded.[6][7][8]
^Ahmed Bin Khanen was originally supposed to replace Mashhur Bal Hejaila,[13] but withdrew. Spooner, a Brit[15] and the team's manager,[16] stepped in and raced under a Saudi Arabian license.[14]
^Each pair of dates will use a different track configuration.[20]
^The circuit was designed as an indoor-outdoor venue, combining the ExCeL facilities and the surrounding public roads at Royal Docks.[22]
^ abSession was cancelled due to ongoing track repairs caused by Daniel Abt's crash in Formula E's Free Practice 1. It was decided that the grid order would be based on Free Practice results, meaning that Sérgio Jimenez and Fahad Algosaibi would start from pole position in their respective classes.[27]