How NIO 333's new home is helping it prepare for Formula E's Gen3 era

Under a former guise, the NIO 333 Formula E squad took victory in the championship's inaugural season, but a difficult recent history has resigned the team to the back of the field. Now with a new base and the much-vaunted Gen3 regulations incoming, the Chinese team is looking reinvigorated.

Jake Boxall-Legge Mar 30, 2022, 1:43 PM

There’s something of a paradox about Formula E. As a series and as a concept, it still manages to preserve a veneer of newness about it; the championship has been able to retain its status as a disruptor in the world of motorsport, continuing to take pre-conceived notions of how racing should be and turn them on their heads.

Yet, as Formula E stands well within its eighth season, on the brink of its third-generation ruleset, it feels part of the furniture against other racing categories. It’s no longer a place for Formula 1 rejects to ply their trade in lieu of anything better to do – it's now a destination for drivers to shoot for.

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Author Jake Boxall-Legge

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.