Electric Production Car Series
The Electric Production Car Series (abbreviated as EPCS, previously known as the "Electric GT Championship") is a proposed zero-emission international auto racing championship organized by Electric GT Holdings. The inaugural season was planned to take place in 2018, but was cancelled before the start due to a lack of a lead investor. All teams would use a modified version of the Tesla Model S P100D. Format. Each race weekend was proposed to consist of a 20-minute practice session, a 30-minute qualifying session and two races, a day and a dusk race, lasting each  60 km. EGT also intended to run an electric kart racing series to recruit drivers. Car. For the inaugural season of the championship all teams would be supplied identical versions of a modified Tesla Model S by sole supplier Tesla. The championship is however open to other manufactures of electric vehicles and those could be introduced in the later seasons. The base model for the championship car was the Tesla Model S P85, and updated to P100D for tests on the Spanish Circuit Calafat in December 2016. The modifications included improved braking, aerodynamics to increase high speed grip, strengthen of  the suspension, braking and cooling, steering wheel and a reduction of the overall weight. In January 2017, the race-prepped Tesla was tested on the Circuit Pau-Arnos in rural southwestern France and filmed. Teams and drivers. The Electric Production Car Series is based on a Drivers' Club. This driver pool is intended to help the later teams negotiate negotiations with interested drivers. To create a truly global racing series, the organizer is aiming to start with three teams from Europe, three from North America, two from Asia and two from the rest of the world in identical racing versions  of the race modified Tesla. There will be 20 international drivers. Among the drivers are: Vicky Piria, Leilani Münter, Alice Powell, Emma Kimiläinen, Stefan Wilson, Dani Clos, Tom Coronel, Tom Onslow-Cole, Ricardo Teixeira, Jeroen Bleekemolen, Kevin Ceccon, Stephen Cox, Oliver Webb, George Richardson, Olivier Lombard, Wolfgang Reip, Alex Premat, Rebecca Jackson and Spencer Pumpelly. Each team will be able to provide two drivers.