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One of the most familiar names and faces in the Formula E paddock, James Barclay, will leave the Jaguar team at the end of the present season.  The Race can reveal that Barclay has decided to call time on his 12-year stint at Jaguar Land Rover after the final round in London in late July and take up another position…

JLR Motorsport managing director and Jaguar TCS Racing team principal James Barclay will leave the company following the conclusion of the current Formula E season, the company announced today. Barclay will depart on August 1, moving to what JLR has described as “an exciting role outside our business”. Caruth and Chadwick car-swap NASCAR and Formula E at Homestead Nato strives…

Apr 15, 2025, 04:50 AM ET Owning a Formula 1 team could be the next step for Saudi Arabia after sponsoring the sport and hosting a grand prix, according to the chairman of the kingdom’s automobile and motorcycle federation. Prince Khalid bin Sultan Al-Abdullah Al-Faisal told reporters in a video call ahead of this weekend’s race in Jeddah that the…

Lando Norris admitted he hasn’t felt comfortable in McLaren’s new car since the season began after labouring to third place in the Bahrain Grand Prix. He qualified over four tenths of a second behind team mate Oscar Piastri. Despite a handful of errors in the race, including a penalty for lining up incorrectly in his grid box, Norris made his…

Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal James Barclay is to leave the Formula E team at the end of the season, as well as his role as Managing Director of JLR Motorsport. Barclay was appointed Team Director of Jaguar when it entered Formula E in 2015, and in 2021, was appointed to the roles he currently holds. During his tenure, he…

Oscar Piastri scored his most emphatic victory to date in Bahrain, with his first ‘hat trick’ of pole position, fastest lap and victory. He is the 49th driver in F1 history to achieve that feat. He also took the second pole position of his career, which made him the 75th multiple pole-winner in Formula 1 history. On Sunday he claimed…

Lucas Di Grassi was in celebratory mood after an “historical moment” for the Lola Yamaha ABT team, in which it claimed its first Formula E podium in Miami. The famed British manufacturer took its first open-wheel podium for 37 years when the Brazilian navigated the chaotic conditions at the Homestead-Miami Speedway to finish in second place behind winner Pascal Wehrlein….

Oscar Piastri won the Bahrain Grand Prix for McLaren. Pos. No. Driver Team Laps Time Gap Deficit Reason 1 81 Oscar Piastri McLaren-Mercedes 57 1h 35’39.435 2 63 George Russell Mercedes 57 1h 35’54.934 15.499 15.499 3 4 Lando Norris McLaren-Mercedes 57 1h 35’55.708 0.774 16.273 4 16 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 57 1h 35’59.114 3.406 19.679 5 44 Lewis Hamilton…

It was Pascal Wehrlein’s day in Miami on Saturday when, amid a lot of chaos and confusion in the results, he was eventually declared the winner. Nissan’s Norman Nato was leading the race, and Pascal would have been second if the former hadn’t been disqualified first and then sent back to sixth position for misuse of Attack Mode. Wehrlein’s win…

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to davidnotcoulthard and Dave W! On this day in motorsport Born on this day in 1922: Graham Whitehead, one half of the first pair of brothers to compete in the world championship. He made a single start in the 1952 British Grand Prix and finished two places behind…

Pascal Wehrlein’s Miami E-Prix victory was not just the German’s first Formula E victory of Season 11 – he also became the first FE driver to win an FIA President’s Medal. The Tag Heuer Porsche man overcame the chaos of a red flag situation which saw many other drivers penalised for failing to finish Attack Modes, boosting his World Championship…

Oscar Piastri became the first driver to win two grands prix this year, but was he the top performer in Bahrain? Here’s our verdict on the full field. Lando Norris Qualified: 6th (5 places behind team mate, +0.426s)Grid: 6th (5 places behind team mate)Start: +3 placesStrategy: Two-stop (S-M-M)Finished: 3rd (2 places behind team mate) ▼ Ill-timed fumble in Q3 left…

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Laurence EdmondsonApr 14, 2025, 12:57 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Lewis Hamilton cut a dejected figure after qualifying ninth at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday. On a circuit where he has taken five career victories, his best qualifying lap was 0.9 seconds off Oscar Piastri‘s McLaren on pole position and nearly…

Formula 1 races for the third event in a row this weekend as the drivers head to the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Formula 2 and F1 Academy will join them, each holding two races on the high-speed layout. Meanwhile the World Endurance Championship will resume at Imola – a track F1 is due to visit next month. Ferrari head to their…

Over the weekend, Maserati MSG Racing participated in the Formula E Miami E-Prix with the other teams. While the weather was pretty perfect, by Florida standards at least, the Italian race team ended up with a less-than-stellar result. However, both Jake Hughes and Stoffel Vandoorne gained some insight into this new track to use as the Formula E season continues….

Apr 14, 2025, 08:01 AM ET Formula 1 leader Lando Norris was unsparingly self-critical after suffering setbacks in Bahrain at the weekend but McLaren principal Andrea Stella said the driver was being unfair on himself and taking blame for the team. Norris said he had been “clueless on track” after Saturday qualifying at Sakhir and, after finishing third on Sunday…

Max Verstappen slogged away for a sixth-place finish in a Bahrain Grand Prix where fortune was never on his side. He suffered two slow pit stops, for different reasons each time, which ruined the team’s efforts to keep him in contention by using the ‘undercut’. The Safety Car appeared soon after his final stop, playing into the hands of those…

The 2024–25 Formula E World Championship is in full swing, with Pascal Wehrlein taking victory in Round 5—the Miami E-Prix at Homestead-Miami Speedway. With the season racing toward its conclusion in London at the end of July, there are 11 action-packed races still to go, all taking place over the next three months. So buckle up—Formula E’s Gen3 Evo electric…