Were major steps made on electric racing’s as yet not fully-formed racing ladder seen at February’s Hyderabad E-Prix, the first Formula E race weekend in India? That’s the hope via a familiar face of a former regular in the Formula ...
If the trials and tribulations of starting an entirely new Gen3 ruleset were not enough in 2023, Formula E didn’t exactly make life easy for itself with three brand new venues in three separate continents completing the first tranche of ...
Jack Aitken will test for the Envision Racing team at the forthcoming Berlin E-Prix and has told The Race that racing in the all-electric world championship is a consideration for his future in motorsport. The current IMSA and DTM driver ...
Nissan has made two key technical hires as it continues to bolster its engineering department. It comes almost a year after it took sole ownership of the Formula E team that was previously shared with the e.dams organisation. Former Spark ...
Red Bull Formula 1 prospect Zane Maloney will drive a Formula E car in the Berlin rookie test next month. The Rodin Carlin Formula 2 driver will test with a yet-to-be-confirmed team and take part in the six hours of ...
Jaguar Formula E driver Sam Bird didn’t want to deal in cliches of weights being lifted or ghosts laid to rest and such after Saturday’s Sao Paulo E-Prix. He’s been through enough over the last year for all that. They ...
There’s often a misconception in motorsport that it’s always about flat-out racing. It isn’t, and for much of its history hasn’t been that way inclined at all. Tyre conservation, fuel allocations, reliability and mechanical sympathy and general strategising of a ...
Jaguar finally came good at the Sao Paulo E-Prix, underlining its prospects of fighting back from a poor start to the season to challenge Porsche and DS for the 2023 Formula E world championship title. But its win was hard-fought, ...
This year’s Formula E title race is increasingly approaching the familiar ‘wide open’ status of the championship battles from the past. A Jaguar 1-2-3 in an unconventional inaugural Sao Paulo E-Prix was a further step towards points parity out front. ...
Sebastien Buemi suffered hand injuries in an incident with Maximilian Guenther in the early stages of today’s Sao Paulo Formula E race. Envision Racing driver Buemi contacted the back of Guenther’s Maserati DS at Turn 4 on lap three in ...
Formula E championship contender Jake Dennis called fellow up-and-coming talent Dan Ticktum a “plonker” who is racing “in his own little world” after the Sao Paulo E-Prix collision that left Dennis with a third consecutive zero score. Dennis was running ...
Nissan’s Sacha Fenestraz has described the lack of investigation into the shunt with Nick Cassidy that cost him a potential maiden Formula E podium in Cape Town as “unacceptable”. Fenestraz was running in third when Cassidy tapped him lightly at ...
Mahindra will not face penalties for making changes to its suspension after a flexing issue with its wishbones force it to withdraw both it and customer team Abt Cupra to withdraw from last month’s Cape Town Formula E round. The ...
Formula E’s first-ever Sao Paulo E-Prix could become the most extreme example of a race that no one wants to lead until the last lap as drafting and energy saving are set to underline the majority of the event. The ...
McLaren’s Ian James has become the new chairperson for Formula E’s Teams and Manufacturers Association (FETAMA) as the crucial period of forming the Gen4 rules set for 2026 starts to evolve. He follows Sylvain Filippi, the managing director of Envision ...
Maserati MSG team principal James Rossiter says the mistakes made by both his drivers Maximilian Guenther and Edoardo Mortara must cease if the team is to realise its inherent potential during the 2023 Formula E season. The Maserati brand’s arrival ...
The points table may not quite yet back up the theory that Nissan and NEOM McLaren are Formula E’s most progressive partnership but in terms of visible progress the pair have overdelivered to some extent. It was a surprise that ...
How must the Abt Cupra team be feeling considering its first year back in Formula E has so far included driver injury, crippling technical maladies and, of course, the unmitigated disaster of having to sit out Cape Town along with ...
Robin Frijns’ return to Formula E action this weekend at Sao Paulo will only be confirmed fully after he completes a simulator session in Germany today. The Abt CUPRA driver completed several stints in the #31 Team WRT LMP2 car ...
There was an amusing juncture in Antonio Felix da Costa’s recent Cape Town Formula E smash-and-grab victory when it became clear to his engineer, Marius Meier-Diedrich, that his charge wasn’t really listening to him. Despite a fortuitous third place in ...
At least three new venues are being targeted for the 2023-24 Formula E schedule with Tokyo, Los Angeles and Toronto on Formula E’s list of possible new races next year. A race in Tokyo is believed to have moved much ...
The start of Formula E’s Gen3 era was always going to be a bit harum-scarum after a troubled development and testing phase that produced a multitude of hurdles that had to be cleared. Some of those obstacles were still in ...
A former senior technical figure at McLaren and tech chief at Super Aguri in Formula 1, Mark Preston went on to head the Techeetah team that won three drivers’ titles and two teams’ titles in Formula E. He is now ...
Cape Town E-Prix winner Antonio Felix da Costa is spearheading a call for sparking skid plates to be added to Formula E cars in the near future in an effort to improve the all-electric series’ visual appeal. Such measures, involving ...
The rear suspension design concerns that prompted Mahindra to pull its and customer Formula E team Abt’s cars from the Cape Town E-Prix were known before the season started to be a potentially troublesome area. The Race can reveal that ...
The recent arrival of long-time Audi motorsport chief Dieter Gass as a sporting and technical advisor to Formula E is much more than just the consultative appointment that it appears at first glance. Formula E had already directly replaced Frederic ...
Andre Lotterer will miss Formula E’s Jakarta double-header in June and be replaced at the Avalanche Andretti team by former Formula 2 driver David Beckmann. The move, which is expected to be officially confirmed shortly, was triggered by Lotterer having ...
The first significant meeting to discuss the concept of the Gen4 Formula E car took place at the Cape Town E-Prix last week. Teams and manufacturers were led through a presentation that was chaired by both the FIA and the ...
Sebastien Buemi has had a few mad weekends over his 15-year international career. Exhibit A is the chaotic Montreal E-Prix weekend in July 2017 when Buemi had that year’s Formula E title snatched away from him by Lucas di Grassi. ...
Formula E teams want clearer procedures in place to avoid any repeat of the serious Cape Town qualifying accident that ended Jaguar driver Sam Bird’s participation in the event. Bird crashed while on a fast lap after a delay in ...
From maybe to the greatest winning pass in Formula E history to pre-race dramas that meant five cars didn’t even take the start, the inaugural Cape Town E-Prix covered every point on the emotional scale. Here’s our pick of the ...
Pascal Wehrlein rued losing a golden opportunity to extend his Formula E championship lead in Cape Town after the unfathomable error that led to him hitting the back of Sebastien Buemi’s Envision Jaguar on lap one. But in reality this ...
Sacha Fenestraz and Max Guenther ran 1-2 in the early stages of the Cape Town E-Prix but the duo – the two youngest drivers in the championship – both had their races end in bitter disappointment. A non-finish for both ...
Antonio Felix da Costa owes Nelson Piquet Jr dinner. The Cape Town E-Prix winner basked in a deserved Cape of Good Hope sunset in Cape Town on Saturday evening but unlike his Hyderabad podium earlier this month, hope and fortune ...
The Cape Town Formula E field has lost five of its 22 cars and one more is in doubt after Mahindra withdrew its whole quartet during qualifying and a controversial crash left Edoardo Mortara and Sam Bird with wrecked cars. ...
The Cape Town Formula E field has lost four cars and two more are in doubt after Mahindra withdrew its whole quartet during qualifying and a controversial crash left Edoardo Mortara’s and Sam Bird’s cars needing heavy repairs. Mahindra supplies ...
The Envision Racing Formula E team has had an appeal against the penalty that cost Sebastien Buemi a podium place at the recent Hyderabad E-Prix dismissed. Envision pursued an official appeal procedure after its initial post-race protest against the penalty ...
Formula E drivers have sought clarification from the FIA over debris being left on the track during green flag racing after a specific incident in the Hyderabad E-Prix earlier this month. Edoardo Mortara’s Maserati-run car shed its front wing after ...
The Cape Town E-Prix circuit has been modified just ahead of track action tomorrow, meaning that the first ever Formula E race in South Africa is set to be even faster than first anticipated. What was a chicane at Turns ...
Formula E will face a talent drain shortly, particularly within its experienced top-earning drivers, and it could see an influx of fresh, bargain-priced drivers. That is the present opinion of some within the Formula E paddock. They see a perfect ...