Nissan Formula E Team successfully completes intensive pre-season testing in Valencia

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The Nissan Formula E Team continued its preparation for the 2025/26 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain, completing a very specific and ambitious testing programme while also showing strong pace.

With World Champion Oliver Rowland debuting the #1 on his Nissan e-4ORCE 05 and Norman Nato sporting the traditional Nissan #23, the pair quickly got back into the rhythm of driving Formula E machinery ahead of December’s season opener in São Paulo.

Rowland completed 279 tours of the Spanish track, while Nato lapped the 4km circuit 265 times. The duo spent the majority of the test polishing performance features, validating mechanical parts and testing various set-up options, while also working on several qualifying and race scenarios to better prepare the squad for the upcoming campaign. Both drivers were also able to show their speed, each topping a session on Day 4, with Nato setting the fastest time in the morning, before Rowland followed suit in the afternoon.

Friday’s running saw the team’s rookie and simulator driver Abbi Pulling jump in the car to take on the second ever all-women’s test. It was the F1 Academy champion’s third time in Nissan Formula E GEN3 Evo car, following the all-women’s test in 2024, which she topped, and the Berlin Rookie Test in July.

Tommaso Volpe, managing director and team principal of the Nissan Formula E Team, said: “It has been a very intense week of testing. We had a very ambitious and specific programme to go through, and we’re happy to have achieved what we came here to do.

“It was important to get everyone up to speed again and to integrate our new team members and, while performance was not our focus this week, we’ve also managed to produce some very competitive times.

Keep up momentum

“Our drivers are now more confident with the set-up and we’ve collected lots of data to help us in the buildup to São Paulo, so we’re quite pleased with how the test has gone overall.

Oliver Rowland said: “It’s been a good few days of testing here in Valencia and I felt like we worked our way through the programme nicely. We’ve learned a lot from some challenging moments and that can be a good opportunity as we sit down and analyse everything to further improve and keep up our momentum.”

Norman Nato added: “It’s been a long and intense week but I’m happy with what we’ve achieved. We’ve been trying a lot of new features and everything seemed to go well.

“We’ve got some time to now analyse our performance before São Paulo and make sure we’re at the top of our game. It’s the final year of GEN3 Evo and we know that the smallest margins will make the difference.”