The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship has featured at least one round in the United States in all but one of its 12 seasons to date. In 2027, The Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, becomes the seventh US venue to host the all-electric championship.
Over the years, the undulating road circuit has hosted America’s premier racing categories - IndyCar, NASCAR, and IMSA. It has also welcomed Formula 1, MotoGP, and WEC, with Formula E now becoming the latest world championship to race around the Austin venue.
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From downtown street tracks and waterfront views to iconic permanent road courses, here is the story of Formula E across the United States.
Venue | Season(s) |
Biscayne Bay (Miami) | S1 (2015) |
Long Beach Street Circuit | S1 & S2 (2015 & 2016) |
Brooklyn Street Circuit (New York) | S3-S5, S7 & S8 (2017-2019 & 2021-22) |
Portland International Raceway | S9 & S10 (2023 & 2024) |
Homestead-Miami Speedway | S11 (2025) |
Miami International Autodrome | S12 & Season 2027 (2026 & 2027) |
Circuit of the Americas (Austin) | Season 2027 |
Home hero’s near miss in Miami
For the inaugural Formula E season, two races were held in America. The first of these was in downtown Miami at Biscayne Bay in what turned out to be the venue's only race.
The 1.3-mile temporary street circuit wound around the home of the NBA team Miami Heat and provided great racing in its sole appearance.
Jean-Éric Vergne secured pole position by 0.05 of a second and battled with Sam Bird early in the race, but both hit issues during the E-Prix. This left Nico Prost and Daniel Abt to battle for the lead, but Abt hit power problems of his own. Prost then battled debutant and home hero Scott Speed, keeping his calm to win in the all-electric championship for the first time.
History repeats itself at Long Beach
Just weeks after the inaugural stateside race, Formula E swapped the East Coast for the West Coast for its first race at Long Beach in California, one of the USA’s most historic street courses.
Prost and Abt continued where they left off in Miami, securing the front row, but it was Nelson Piquet Jr. who sprinted off into the lead at the start. The Brazilian held off Vergne, Lucas di Grassi and Sebastien Buemi to win his first Formula E race, 35 years after his father took his maiden Formula One win at the same venue.
The following year, di Grassi overcame a disqualification in the previous race in Mexico and secured a crucial win at Long Beach, taking the lead in the Drivers’ Championship by a single point over Buemi.
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Taking it to the Big Apple
Formula E raced in New York City with a double-header event every year between 2017 and 2022, aside from the COVID-19-affected 2020 season, with the technical Brooklyn Street Circuit looking over the spectacular Manhattan and Jersey City skyline.
Twice hosting the season finale, New York often produced dramatic races with championship defining results. For the very first race, debutant Alex Lynn stunned the field by securing pole position, before retiring in the race, with Sam Bird taking victory.
Debutants continued to take centre stage in the second race of the weekend, with future F1 race winner Pierre Gasly finishing the race in fourth. Despite crashing on the last corner, the Frenchman was able to hold position and scramble across the finish line. At the same time, di Grassi picked up important points in his title fight against the absent Buemi, while Bird made it back-to-back victories.
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New York holds very good memories for Vergne, who clinched both of his Formula E titles in Brooklyn. As GEN1 wound down, Vergne took the championship on Bastille Day, despite being excluded from qualifying. He charged through the field to fifth to clinch the title, and rounded out the era with a win a day later.
A year later, at the start of the GEN2 era, Vergne defended his crown despite a turbulent double-header. A late-race collision with Felipe Massa in Race 1 pushed the title fight to the finale, where a seventh-place finish was enough to seal the championship.
The first race of the 2022 double-header in the Big Apple will forever be remembered for the sudden deluge which hit the circuit, sending several drivers into the barrier and forcing a Red Flag to end the race early. Despite his car being wedged in the barriers, Nick Cassidy secured his first Formula E win.
Da Costa brought Formula E’s New York chapter to an unforgettable close. Starting from pole, the DS Techeetah driver delivered a commanding lights-to-flag victory, holding off a charging Stoffel Vandoorne before famously celebrating with a dive into the Hudson River. While da Costa took the spoils, runner-up Vandoorne seized the championship lead - a crucial step toward clinching his maiden Drivers' Championship in Seoul just a few weeks later.
Tense battles at Portland
As the GEN3 era dawned, the series relocated stateside to Portland International Raceway for the next two seasons. The wide, flowing Oregon road course transformed races into tactical high-speed chess matches, defined by dramatic slipstreaming and intense energy conservation.
Portland’s debut, which featured numerous overtakes, was won by Nick Cassidy from 10th on the grid ahead of polesitter Jake Dennis, in a race which proved pivotal to the Englishman’s championship hopes.
Portland expanded to a double-header the following year, and da Costa dominated the weekend with back-to-back victories over Robin Frijns. Marking four wins in five races, the clean sweep reignited his season and kept his outside title hopes alive.
Return to the Sunshine State
Miami returned to the Formula E calendar for the 2024/25 season with the enhanced GEN3 Evo. The Homestead-Miami Speedway, host of the NASCAR Cup finale for many years, including in 2026, held a Formula E race for the only time that year.
Norman Nato was on course to secure victory in the race which was halted due to a Red Flag, but he was one of several drivers who failed to use all the ATTACK MODE allocation before the end of the race. This handed victory to Pascal Wehrlein in a race which totally opened up the title race.
The Miami International Autodrome joined the calendar for the following season. - the home of the Miami Dolphins marked the third destination in Florida for Formula E.
Conditions were treacherous for the circuit’s debut as rain fell ahead of the start. After securing his first pole, Nico Müller was denied a maiden victory by an inspired Mitch Evans, climbing from ninth on the grid around the 1.4-mile circuit to pass Müller with a crucial switchback overtake.
The Miami Gardens venue also hosted the inaugural Formula E EVO Sessions in 2025, with well-known celebrities such as Sergio Aguero and Tom Felton, and creators such as Driver61 and JUCA, taking to the track to test out the all-electric GEN3 machinery.
New chapter in the Lone Star State
The calendar expands to Texas next season as COTA plays host to the dawn of the GEN4 era.
The maiden Austin E-Prix serves as the opening act of an American double-bill, with the Miami E-Prix following just two weeks later - bringing Formula E's cutting-edge electric performance to one of North America’s premier racing venues.
From street circuits to world-class road courses, the stateside rounds of the all-electric championship have always delivered high drama, and Austin promises to raise the stakes even higher.
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