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The customer getting one over the shopkeeper in motorsport is as old as the hills. Whether it be Tyrrell regularly humbling Matra in Formula 1 in 1969, Super Aguri occasionally embarrassing Honda in 2007, or the Jota team leading the ...

Disaster averted – Now what’s next for Formula E’s Gen3 car?

If you’d told Formula E teams and drivers last December that the 2023 season would have turned out to be mostly a reliable and exciting season of close racing, they probably would have laughed at you. Such was the wholesale ...

F1’s silly season is delaying an important Formula E choice

There is some confusion as to how Avalanche Andretti got a little exposed in Formula E’s 2024 driver market this year, to the extent that perhaps even the team itself is still not clear on who will line up against ...

Rowland’s ruthlessness might have saved his Formula E career

Oliver Rowland has fought harder than most to carve out a professional career in motorsport, so when it felt as if a nightmare start to his 2023 Formula E campaign with Mahindra wasn’t going to get any better he knew ...

Another surprise 2024 Formula E reunion gets green light

Oliver Rowland has rejoined Nissan and will resume his Formula E career after leaving the Mahindra squad midway through the 2023 campaign. Rowland, who will race alongside Sacha Fenestraz, drove for the manufacturer in its Nissan e.dams guise from 2018-21, ...

FE fast-charging pitstops get 2024 green light after doubts

Formula E races will include fast-charging pitstops as originally planned in the 2024 season after recent proposals for them to only be used in qualifying faded. The FIA had always planned to have the energy boosting stops in races and ...

The frenetic race for two of Formula E’s least-competitive seats

The soon-to-be decided 2024 Mahindra and Abt Cupra Formula E driver line-ups have recently gone through what has been described to The Race as ‘fluid and complex’ twists, even as the majority of the teams’ senior staff went on their ...

More than marriage of convenience – but can Bird revive Mc Laren?

To redress the Christmas card shortage via his native US from IndyCar adversary Chip Ganassi this yuletide, Zak Brown can at least rely on one from the Sandbanks area of the south coast of England. Sam Bird’s new Formula E ...

Formula E 2023: The expert panel’s top 10 drivers

After an ultra-competitive first Gen3 Formula E world championship season, our FE correspondent Sam Smith ranked every series regular driver’s 2023 efforts from worst to best. But Sam wanted to canvass a few more views, so brought together an expert ...

‘Very visible’ changes are coming for Formula E’s Gen3 car

Plans for an evolution of the current Formula E car that will include an active front powertrain kit are almost agreed and are set to be validated shortly for introduction in the 2025 season. The Race can reveal that the ...

Mc Laren’s departing Formula E driver won’t miss it

Rene Rast felt like a man slightly out of his time in Formula E, so much so that those he raced against will not be sorry to see him leave and he will not miss racing in Formula E himself. ...

Mc Laren might need to make a big change to thrive in Formula E

Despite all its motorsport pedigree and the fact it was taking over the title-winning Mercedes team, the brand new McLaren Formula E operation was never realistically expected to win in its first season. But it nevertheless must already be looking ...

Why Formula E’s apparent super-team fell so flat in 2023

If you are looking for genuine 2023 Formula E mysteries then DS Penske’s lacklustre season is right up there among the perplexing whodunits. Like a long lost Sir Arthur Conan Doyle portmanteau, thick with disorientating inscrutability, the black and gold ...

Every full-time 2023 Formula E driver ranked from worst to best

The dust has just about settled on another Formula E season, one that marked the start of a Gen3 era that was not without its troubles. But the racing was fiercely good – and the competition, too. The swings in ...

Unlikely reunion sets up fascinating Formula E character dynamic

“I’m not going to travel the world to finish in P15 everywhere. For sure, next season, I am there to be on the podium and win races.” It’s hard to say whether or not Robin Frijns, who’s words above appeared ...

The making of Cassidy’s statement Jaguar Formula E move

Just for a brief moment, put yourself in the mind and the shoes of new Jaguar Formula E driver Nick Cassidy at the beginning of June. The Formula E season has just tipped over the halfway mark, he’s leading the ...

Biggest move of 2024 Formula E driver market is now official

Jaguar has officially announced that Nick Cassidy will join fellow Kiwi Mitch Evans in its factory Formula E team in a deal believed to run at least the end of the 2025 season. The Race broke the news of Cassidy’s ...

Longer track? Friday night race? London’s Formula E future

The close relationship between the London ExCeL Arena and Formula E is set to continue and expand the event into a larger and more engaging facility in 2025 – provided the race gets a further contract extension. The Race can ...

Inside an agonising self-inflicted title bid implosion

One of the more curious events of the 2023 Formula E season was how Envision Racing went from a comfortable 1-2 in the opening stages of last Saturday’s crucial title deciding race in London to its championship protagonist Nick Cassidy ...

Porsche goes ahead with appeal of ‘incomprehensible’ penalty

Porsche will follow through with appealing the three-minute penalty that cost Antonio Felix da Costa second place in the first London E-Prix and ensured Porsche finished behind its customer team Andretti in the 2023 Formula E teams’ championship. Da Costa ...

New Formula E champ a BMW masterstroke Andretti maximised instead

In the roll call of surprising yet ultimately inspired driver choices, Jake Dennis’s bolt-from-the-blue signature on a BMW Andretti contract in October 2020 was clearly visionary. Back then, I wrote that his arrival in Formula E came about due to ...

Why Andretti’s new champion doesn’t fancy its vacant IndyCar seat

Andretti has vacancies in its IndyCar line-up for 2024 – so could its newly-crowned Formula E champion Jake Dennis, who has already tested with Andretti’s IndyCar squad, be tempted to make the switch? Dennis, 28, wrapped up his and Andretti’s ...

Why angry Michael Andretti confronted Porsche chiefs in London

Believe it or not, Michael Andretti doesn’t swear that much in public, much preferring the colloquial American expression ‘frickin’. But last Saturday during the Formula E finale weekend at London ExCeL he went for a similar sounding and much more ...

F1 tester closes on Andretti FE seat as doors close to De Vries

Felipe Drugovich has emerged as the surprise favourite to join world champion Jake Dennis in the Avalanche Andretti team for the 2024 Formula E season. That prospect and moves elsewhere in the field make it look increasingly unlikely that recent ...

Winners and losers from Formula E’s frenzied 2023 finale

The 2023 Formula E season signed off in a fitting fashion in London, in a haze of on-track excitement, controversy and hurt feelings – even if the actual final race proved shockingly reserved given the remarkable conditions. In many ways, ...

Bird’s Jaguar Formula E downfall rests mostly on him

Why didn’t it happen for Sam Bird at the Jaguar Formula E team? It’s a question that will puzzle and frustrate most, not least Bird himself. Jaguar announced during the evening of the 2023 Formula E season finale in London ...

Formula E teams seek FIA clarity on divisive London penalties

Several incidents in Saturday’s first London E-Prix left teams with significant ill-feeling ahead of Sunday’s final race of the 2023 Formula E season. Notable areas of discord include a combination of incident investigations and the communication teams received on whether ...

Porsche will appeal penalty that wrecked Formula E title shot

Porsche will appeal Antonio Felix da Costa’s three-minute London E-Prix penalty for a “technical infraction” that terminally compromised its chance of a first teams’ world title in Formula E. Da Costa charged from a lowly 17th on the grid to ...

‘Too kind’ – The team implosion that ended Cassidy’s title bid

The London E-Prix collision between Envision team-mates Nick Cassidy and Sebastien Buemi that effectively ended Cassidy’s 2023 Formula E title aspirations had its roots in Cassidy being “too kind”. That was the appraisal of Cassidy himself, who was attempting to ...

‘Could get pretty nasty’: How alliances impact Formula E decider

Complex inter-squad choreography between manufacturers and their customer teams could come into play in the final two races of the 2023 Formula E season in London this weekend – and according to points leader Jake Dennis, it could get “nasty” ...

Kvyat-linked Formula E team now set for ‘copy-paste’ 2024 line-up

Dan Ticktum and Sergio Sette Camara look set to remain Formula E team-mates at NIO 333 next season after team principal Alex Hui insinuated that he would like to keep consistency in the improving team for 2024. Ticktum has a ...

Modded Formula E car – and Mc Laren driver – break speed record

A specially-adapted Gen3 Formula E car driven by McLaren’s Jake Hughes set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest speed achieved by a vehicle indoors. The speed reached in a run conducted behind closed doors on the main straight ...

What next for a Formula E great trapped in the midfield?

Lucas di Grassi looks set to stay with the Mahindra team for a second season in 2024 despite his least competitive season in almost a decade of racing in Formula E. The 2016/17 champion joined Mahindra last summer after a ...

Formula E’s ideal finale venue is a template for racing’s future

When Antonio Felix da Costa told The Race last year that when he called up then CEO Jamie Reigle or co-founder Alberto Longo to talk Formula E he wasn’t being “a d***” it was time to take notice. “If we ...

Andretti’s journey from BMW bombshell to Formula E title brink

Less than two years ago, the Andretti Formula E team was in a state of major upheaval. Just eight months prior a bombshell – in the shape of BMW’s surprise rejection of a commitment to Formula E that, in truth, ...

‘World first’ AI methods used in Mc Laren Formula E livery

Jake Hughes and Rene Rast will race at this weekend’s London E-Prixs in a new McLaren Formula E livery that the team claims to be a “world first” to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) methods. The livery has been devised ...

Surprise Formula E reunion is latest 2024 driver move

Robin Frijns will make a surprise switch back to Envision’s Formula E team after just one year away to become Sebastien Buemi’s team-mate next year. The Race has learned that a deal for Frijns to commence a second spell at ...

A Formula E comeback looks inevitable months after abrupt exit

Oliver Rowland is ready to renew his Formula E career after what he described, in his first interview since standing down from his Mahindra seat, as a “tough” season and a half with the team. Rowland has kept a relatively ...

Drastic cut to energy limit for London Formula E finale

The FIA has slashed the usable energy allowed for this weekend’s season-ending Formula E double header at ExCeL London in an effort to bring more strategic racing into play. That decision should benefit the slightly more energy-efficient packages of Jaguar ...

Porsche commitment is big Formula E win. But will others follow?

Confirmation that Porsche has extended its commitment to participating in Formula E until the end of the 2026 season is easily the best existential news the all-electric series has had since the beginning of the present decade. Doubt around the ...

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