DHL becomes race title partner for 2021 Valencia e-Prix; brings ’live’ audience to the grandstand

Official Founding and Logistics Partner of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, DHL, has become the Race Title Partner for the DHL Valencia E-Prix.

Building on a long-standing relationship between DHL and Formula E that stretches back to Season 1, DHL has become the title partner of the first ever Valencia E-Prix, staged as a double header this weekend on 24 and 25 April at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.

The partnership will see DHL turn one of the circuit’s grandstands green – covered with 400 olive trees, native to the region that will in the long-term contribute to absorbing CO2 emissions from the atmosphere – to highlight its ‘GoGreen’ worldwide environmental protection program, an initiative that showcases DHL’s strong sense of responsibility and its commitment to helping its customers grow sustainably.

Following the DHL Valencia E-Prix and as part of the cooperation of DHL with the Formula E Legacy Program, 350 of the trees will be planted at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo during May 2021. The remaining 50 trees will be planted by DHL Express employees as part of Global Volunteer Day in cooperation with a local NGO.

‘GoGreen’ advances DHL’s wider goal, known as ‘Mission 2050: Zero Emissions’, and the company’s drive to reduce logistics-related emissions to net zero by the year 2050. To get there, Deutsche Post DHL Group is investing, as recently announced with its newly launched sustainability roadmap, € 7 billion in climate-neutral logistics until 2030.

DHL’s sustainability work with Formula E extends beyond environmental initiatives. In 2020, DHL supported the Formula E Open Talent Call for Presenters – a competition designed to create opportunities for under-represented groups in motorsport. 

Winner Derin Adetosoye is now part of the Formula E presenting line-up for the 2020/21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.