Mahindra Racing to power Formula E champion team ABT Sportsline

Mahindra Racing today announced that it will provide the powertrain to Formula E World Championship-winning team ABT Sportsline. The team returned to the all-electric racing series after a year and tied up with Mahindra Racing as its first customer racing team.
The Formula E teams will race identical-looking Gen3 machines, with manufacturers developing the electric drivetrain which will be supplied to privateer teams.
A pair of Mahindra Racing powered by ZF Gen3 cars will arrive in ABT Sportsline’s Kempten facility in October. In between, ABT engineers are working with the Indian team on software, set-up and simulation, as well as joining the team on test days.
ABT and Mahindra have a long history together and have jointly driven the development of the series off the track, says Thomas Biermaier, CEO at ABT Sportsline. Further, he added, “As a customer team, we also want to bring our experience from seven years of Formula E with over 80 races and over a decade of electric mobility at ABT Sportsline to the partnership. We are looking forward to this new Allgäu-India connection and are grateful that Mahindra Racing and its partners are supporting us in our comeback in Formula E.”
“ABT Sportsline is one of the top-level race outfits in the world and we’ve long-enjoyed racing competitively against them. It’s an honour to be able to take our powertrain, developed in partnership with ZF, and support the team in its return to the FIA ABB Formula E World Championship. Both Mahindra Racing and ABT Sportsline were championship founding teams and its absence in the paddock has been felt hugely. We look forward to seeing the team back winning races from 2023 and we are committed to supporting them with whatever they need to succeed,” says Dilbagh Gill CEO and Team Principal at Mahindra Racing.
Mahindra Racing is one of the founding teams of the world’s first all-electric street racing series. Now it has joined Nissan and Porsche in offering powertrains to Formula E’s privateer teams from next season, with Porsche supporting Andretti and Nissan working with McLaren.