Vancouver axes its 2022 date

Canada continues its wait to host its second Formula E round with the cancellation of this summer’s Vancouver race.

The electric series was scheduled to visit the British Columbian city on 2 July, five years after its previous Canadian event in Montreal (right) in 2017. The Quebec city then canned its race, which was labelled by the city’s mayor Valerie Plante as a “financial fiasco”.

The Vancouver race was planned as the focal point of the Canadian E-fest festival, a weekend dedicated to promoting sustainability across motorsport and the automotive and business sectors. The festival and race would have been held around the False Creek area of Vancouver, which previously held CART and Champ

Car rounds from 1990 to 2004. Canadian news outlets have reported that the race was not granted the correct permits because of a failure to submit the relevant paperwork before the deadline.

Promoter OSS Group stated: “After intensive review with the City of Vancouver, OSS Group has had to make the incredibly difficult to decision to postpone Canadian E-fest until 2023. The City of Vancouver fully supports the postponement. Delivery of a world class event is of the utmost importance to the organisation.”

It is unknown whether the Vancouver round will be replaced for 2022 but, as it stands, its departure from this year’s calendar leaves a gap of nearly six weeks between the Jakarta E-prix on 4 June and the New York round on 16-17 July.

If Vancouver hosts a race in 2023, it will join another confirmed new venue in the form of South African city Cape Town, which will host a race around the Green Point area. Formula E has also stated its intent to host a race in the Indian city of Hyderabad in 2023.