10 things we learned from Valencia Formula E testing

The prologue to the 2022/2023 Formula E season has concluded as the series gets set for the new Gen3 era. After almost four days of testing in Valencia this week, Motorsport.com takes a look at the 10 major talking points that will dominate the build-up to the new campaign getting underway in January.

After three-and-a-bit days of running in the Valencian sun - save for the downpour on Tuesday afternoon – the Formula E teams have reams of data to take into the Christmas break as they continue to understand the demands of the all-new Gen3 car.

It’s been a big undertaking for each of the manufacturers, particularly as private testing preparations have been rocky at best, but the very point of testing is to clear the pipes of reliability issues before the season kicks off. That gives those manufacturers and Formula E’s cast of standard parts suppliers areas to work on as the new generation of car is still very much in its infancy. After all, engineers talk about wanting to ‘break the car’ in testing to ensure they can patch up any gaping holes in their arsenal.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Autosport’s Technical Editor. Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.