With the start of a new season of the ABB FIA Formula E championship less than a month away motorsport's governing body, the FIA has confirmed the full-season entry list ahead of the season opener in Saudia Arabia on December 15.



This year’s expanded 11-team entry list will see 22 of the world’s top driving talents take to the grid, with the first round kicking off with the 2018 SAUDIA Ad Diriyah E-Prix - click here to purchase tickets.



All four former champions return to test their mettle in the new FIA Formula E Gen2 car, with Jean-Eric Vergne hoping to become the first back-to-back champion in the history of the series with DS Techeetah.

Six fresh faces will be facing their first Formula E race in less than a month, with Stoffel Vandoorne and Gary Paffett representing newcomers HWA Racelab, Max Guenther lining up for Geox Dragon, Felipe Massa for the Venturi Formula E Team, Alexander Albon for Nissan e.dams and Alexander Sims for BMW i Andretti Motorsport.

Several other top talents are returning to the championship for the upcoming campaign having raced in Formula E before but not contested the full fourth season – these include Robin Frijns for Envision Virgin Racing, Tom Dillmann for the NIO Formula E Team. Felix Rosenqvist returns to the Championship, taking the place of new Mahindra rookie driver Pascal Wehrlein for the first round of the season. See below for the full entry list.

RACE # TEAM NAME TYPE DRIVER 2 Envision Virgin Racing Audi e-tron FE05 Sam Bird (GBR) 3 Panasonic Jaguar Racing Jaguar I-Type III Nelson Piquet (BRA) 4 Envision Virgin Racing Audi e-tron FE05 Robin Frijns (NLD) 5 HWA RACELAB Venturi VFE05 Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) 6 GEOX DRAGON Penske EV-3 Max Gunther (DEU) 7 GEOX DRAGON Penske EV-3 Jose Maria Lopez (ARG) 8 NIO Formula E Team NIO Sport 004 Tom Dillmann (FRA) 11 Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler Formula E Team Audi e-tron FE05 Lucas Di Grassi (BRA) 16 NIO Formula E Team NIO Sport 004 Oliver Turvey (GBR) 17 HWA RACELAB Venturi VFE05 Gary Paffett (GBR) 19 Venturi Formula E Team Venturi VFE05 Felipe Massa (BRA) 20 Panasonic Jaguar Racing Jaguar I-Type III Mitch Evans (NZL) 22 Nissan e.dams Nissan IM01 Alex Albon (THA) 23 Nissan e.dams Nissan IM01 Sebastien Buemi (CHE) 25 DS TECHEETAH DS E-TENSE FE19 Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) 27 BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT BMW iFE.18 Alexander Sims (GBR) 28 BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT BMW iFE.18 Antonio Felix Da Costa (PRT) 36 DS TECHEETAH DS E-TENSE FE19 Andre Lotterer (DEU) 48 Venturi Formula E Team Venturi VFE05 Edoardo Mortara (CHE) 64 MAHINDRA RACING Mahindra M5Electro Jerome d'Ambrosio (BEL) 66 Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler Formula E Team Audi e-tron FE05 Daniel Abt (DEU) 94 MAHINDRA RACING Mahindra M5Electro Felix Rosenqvist (SWE)

With a new car, new racing format and plenty of fresh faces, the fifth season of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship is set to be the most exciting and unpredictable to date. Buckle up, we're just getting started.