Formula E will race on a specially modified configuration of Formula 1's Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia next February that will feature four new chicanes.
The Race can reveal that the circuit will be a tweaked version of the circuit used by the WTCR touring car series in 2022 and will intersect at the Turn 4 area of the regular F1 track before feeding on to the Turn 21/22 part of the lap.
From there, two chicane complexes will be installed between the normal Turns 25 and 26 section before the regular track's looped final corner that leads onto the pit straight.
But the run to the start/finish line will also feature two chicanes, the first a left/right/left followed by a reverse complex of right/left/right tight chicane before the starting grid area. The first corner of the lap will be identical to the one used by F1.
The chicanes have been signed off to add braking area to the circuit in order to improve the lift and coast coefficient for Formula E cars. The track is expected to be around 2.2-mile in length.
Initial opinions on the layout of the track have been tempered with memories of Saudi Arabia's previous Diriyah circuit that was universally loved by Formula E teams and drivers.
Envision’s Sebastien Buemi told The Race that Jeddah "was going to be a different experience" that "could be a nice change too".
"It's a huge track though and it's going to be really wide with few corners," he added.
"Let's have a race there and see. But it could end up being a bit of a Portland I think, and compared to Riyadh [Diriyah], you lose character.
"I guess the infrastructure would be mega, the track would be bigger, but it might not have the same character as Diriyah, which was a really challenging one."
Nyck de Vries, who is the only Formula E driver with some previous experience of the Jeddah circuit, told The Race that he had "seen a little bit of the track" and that he too would "miss Diriyah" which was "a real Formula E track".
"Jeddah is going to be a different experience," he said. "It's a cool track, in Formula 1 I loved racing there so it can also be a nice change for us too."
Formula E is changing the location of its Saudi Arabian race for 2025 as construction work in and around the Diriyah area made a switch inevitable.
Construction dust had affected running at the pop-up track in recent seasons and during last year's double-header a distinctive single racing line emerged through some parts of the circuit.
Diriyah hosted 11 E-Prixs, starting in 2018 when it staged the first ever Gen2 race won by then BMW Andretti driver Antonio Felix da Costa.
De Vries and Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein are the two most successful drivers to have raced at Diriyah with two wins apiece.
Formula E's Saudi Arabian promoter, the CBX Group headed by live sports entrepreneur Carlo Boutgay, had looked for an alternative location in Riyadh before opting for the 2025 races to be held on a truncated version of the Jeddah F1 facility on the banks of Red Sea.
