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Video: Onboard Nick Heidfeld's Formula E Goodwood run

10th June 2020

Ben Miles

We have had Formula E cars at the Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard before. Indeed Nick Heidfeld had a crack at the electric Hill record in the first generation car a...

But Formula E cars have evolved over the years. Gone are the days of a slightly standard-looking single-seater racing car, or the need to change cars halfway through a race because they couldn’t make the whole 40 minutes on one charge. Modern Formula E cars look like little batmobiles and they are pretty impressive to see in the flesh.

So when Nick Heidfeld returned with the Mahindra Formula E team for another shot at the shootout (sadly for him on the same weekend he watched Romain Dumas demolish his long-standing outright Hill record), and became the first Gen-2 Formula E car to appear at the Festival, we had to stick a camera on it (or two).

Here is the full run, and what you will notice is not that the top speed is particularly impressive, but just how fast it gets off the line and just squirrelly these things are in the corners. In case you didn’t know Formula E cars run on road-derived tyres, so they don’t have the full-slick massive mechanical grip of Formula 1 cars. That, added to the colossal torque that an electric motor puts out instantly, makes it a bit of a handful. But if there’s anyone who can handle a car on the Goodwood Hill, it’s the man who still holds the shootout record.

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Video: Onboard Nick Heidfeld's Formula E Goodwood run

Instant torque, skinny tyres and a lot of bravery from Nick Heidfeld…

10th June 2020

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Video: Rebellion LMP1 racer on the edge

Nick Heidfeld showing no fear in his Rebellion LMP1 car…

08th September 2020

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Video: Dumas v Heidfeld records side by side

Watch them climb the hill side by side...

06th July 2019

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Video: Nick Heidfeld’s amazing 41.6 second hillclimb record

A record that stood for 20 years, Nick Heidfeld in the McLaren MP4-13…

10th May 2020

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New Gen3 Formula E car to drive for the first time at Goodwood

The new-for-2023 car will make its world debut at the Festival of Speed…

15th June 2022

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Video: How to push the Mercedes F1 W04 up the Festival of Speed Hill

F1 cars aren't timed at the Festival any more, but if they were...

10th May 2020

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Pininfarina Battista is “quicker than any F1 car”

Nick Heidfeld on how the 1,900PS hypercar compares to his old ride...

03rd February 2021

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Video: The best onboards from the 2019 Festival of Speed

Including a screaming Minardi M191B F1 V12 and Ken Block in his Escort Cosworth...

29th April 2020

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