Motorsport

Bianca Bustamante | Photo from racerbia/Instagram Filipino American motorsport prodigy Bianca Bustamante continues to race forward as she closes yet another chapter in her rising career. In an Instagram post, the young racer marked the end of her season with Formula E’s CUPRA team, calling it “a chapter and season closed,” but one she says “will have a bookmark.” “It’s…

Welcome to Saturday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Elkann on Ferrari’s ‘rough’ season so far (F1) ‘It’s a moment to reflect on what has been a hard start and more importantly just put the right foundations for the second part of this season and really make sure that everyone goes energised to have a good break,…

Tennis star Novak Djokovic is part of a group of investors who have bought a stake in French second-tier football team Le Mans, along with ex-Formula 1 drivers Felipe Massa and Kevin Magnussen, the club said on Friday. Le Mans said in a statement that they join other new financial investors into the club, including Latin American sports investment firm…

McLaren were comfortably quickest in practice at the Hungaroring on Friday. Red Bull were eight tenths of a second off the pace, but as usual they look likely to come back into contention on Saturday. Teams’ 2024 performance in context McLaren was clearly the team to beat in Hungary last year. However while the team’s drivers locked out the front…

ABB became Formula E’s first-ever title sponsor in 2018. (Formula E) ABB, the multinational technology giant, has extended its title sponsorship with international electric car racing series Formula E. The brand became the series’s first-ever title sponsor in 2018 as part of a lucrative naming rights deal worth a reported $25 million per season. Since then, it has expanded its…

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Dan Ticktum (Image credit: Instagram) As Formula E drivers soak themselves in relaxation mode after the end of Season 11, Cupra Kiro driver Dan Ticktum is polishing his skills on the piano. He has now shared a new video of himself playing the piano. He mentioned how he was inspired to learn the tune after meeting members of the King’s…

Laurence EdmondsonAug 1, 2025, 01:33 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 BUDAPEST, Hungary — Max Verstappen‘s Red Bull team received a warning from the stewards at the Hungarian Grand Prix after the world champion discarded a towel from the cockpit of his car while driving on track in Friday practice. Verstappen was seen…

Antonio Felix Da Costa (Image credit: Instagram) Antonio Felix Da Costa was comfortably sitting in third position in the Formula E Driver Standings for weeks but was eventually overtaken by Taylor Barnard, Nick Cassidy, and then his own teammate Pascal Wehrlein in the final leg of the championship. The TAG Heuer Porsche driver still has plenty to rejoice in, having…

Laurence EdmondsonAug 1, 2025, 05:29 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 BUDAPEST, Hungary — Fernando Alonso will sit out the first practice session at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday, and could miss more of the race weekend after sustaining a muscular injury in his back. Aston Martin announced the news on Friday…

The FIA has delved into the steps it has taken to improve Formula E driver safety after a large number of hand injuries across the latest Gen3 era.  In the last two years Robin Frijns (Envision) and Sam Bird (McLaren) have broken their hand and both recently revealed how the steering wheel played a key role in causing their injuries….

There have been many highs and lows for drivers, teams and the Formula E championship across the 2024-25 season. From rain-soaked races and incredible comebacks to disappointing debuts, these are the biggest winners and losers from the all-electric championship’s latest season.  Winner: Oliver Rowland  The first person in our winners list has to be Oliver Rowland, the newly-crowned Formula E…

A tale of two former Formula E team-mates not only brought many notional parallels but also literal ones in London last weekend, in that they managed to hit each other in both races. Sam Bird and Robin Frijns spent two seasons together at Envision between 2018 and 2020. They were pretty evenly matched, with each claiming wins and strong championship…

Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Ezpeleta zu Doppel-Events: Wollen das die Fans? (Speed Week – German) ‘Dorna director Carlos Ezpeleta: ‘Everything is worth trying once. Especially when it comes to bringing MotoGP to a new target audience,’ Ezpeleta stated. However, the Spaniard also knows: ‘When I say that, it must be clear that…

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula…

Formula E and ABB will use content creators and influencers to engage with new fans ABB has been title sponsor of Formula E since 2018 Formula E and ABB have extended their global collaboration which sees the electrical engineering company continue as title partner of the series. The partnership, which began in 2018, originally focused on developing the on-track application…

Pascal Wehrlein (Image credit: Instagram) Pascal Wehrlein slipped from second to third position in the last leg of the Formula E Championship in London, but he still has a major reason to celebrate and be proud. Thanks to the performance put up by Wehrlein and his teammate Antonio Felix Da Costa, Porsche TCS Racing won the Teams’ and Manufacturers’ World…

Jul 31, 2025, 02:56 AM ET BUDAPEST, Hungary — Ferrari handed team principal Fred Vasseur a new contract on Thursday in a sign of “trust in Fred’s leadership” following speculation about his future, with the Italian team yet to win a Formula 1 race in 2025. In an announcement ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, Ferrari said the new deal…

Formula E is the first global sport certified under BSI’s Net Zero Pathway, aligning with ISO Net Zero Guidelines. The championship commits to cutting Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% and Scope 3 by 27.5% by 2030, with verified progress and audits. Certification sets a new standard in sport by prioritizing real, science-based carbon reduction over offsets. Formula E…