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Oliver Rowland doesn’t feel like he’s gone from hunter to hunted despite his prime position in the Formula E standings. The Nissan driver is in the thick of the championship fight for the second year in a row, but while last year was a story of Porsche vs Jaguar with Rowland finding his way up there in spite of having…

Motorsport isn’t lacking when it comes to cameras. Formula E — the racing series where all 11 teams and 22 drivers throw fully electric cars around iconic tracks and street circuits at speeds of 200 miles per hour — outfits each racecar with nine onboard cameras, providing different views from the nose to the tail of the car. But for…

Commercial and digital brands, as well as automotive ones, are interested in buying the outgoing McLaren Formula E team, Motorsport Week can exclusively reveal. The McLaren brand will be withdrawing from FE at the end of the current campaign, amid its decision to prioritise its resources for its upcoming Hypercar project. As the team is a customer – of Nissan…

Oliver Oakes’ resignation as team principal of F1 team Alpine this week came several days after UK police charged his brother with transferring criminal property. Metropolitan Police said William Oakes, 31, was charged last Friday after being stopped the day before in the Silverstone Park area “in possession of a large amount of cash.” Police said he was remanded in…

Image credit: Taylor Barnard/Instagram NEOM McLaren driver Taylor Barnard was the first to taste success in Monaco, winning pole in Round 6 qualifying of the double-header. The youngest Formula E driver couldn’t convert that success into a strong race result, but the 19-year-old still has plenty to be proud of. He has since shared a series of Instagram posts celebrating…

Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Is the risk that Mercedes took with Antonelli paying off? (BBC) Frederic Vasseur: ‘Everybody will have a new front wing in Barcelona. By definition and by regulation. I think it will be perhaps a reset of the performance of everybody.’ Revealed: Oliver Oakes resigned days after brother arrested…

Envision Racing’s Sebastien Buemi conveyed his unhappiness at Formula E’s continuing calendar clashes with the World Endurance Championship after taking victory in the Monaco E-Prix. The Swiss driver stormed to a dominant display in the wet on Sunday’s Race 2 in the principality, his first FE win in over five years. It was also the British team’s first win in…

Williams team principal James Vowles explained the confusion which prompted Carlos Sainz Jnr’s critical radio messages after the Miami Grand Prix. Sainz believed his team mate Alexander Albon overtook him when he had been ordered not to during the race. Albon went on to finish fifth, Sainz ninth. “You told me he’s been told,” Sainz said to race engineer Gaetan…

In the fast-paced realm of motorsport, where fortunes can change in the blink of an eye, resilience shines through. Nyck de Vries, a name that resonates with determination, has recently illustrated just that. After a nearly three-year hiatus from the podium, he has made a spectacular comeback in Formula E. The Circuit de Monaco witnessed an exhilarating display as de…

Kyle Larson, left, is one of countless NASCAR drivers who wear cooling shirts to keep their temperatures under control in the baking cockpit of a stock car. Hendrick Motorsports It started as a bit of a mystery: how did the cooling shirt end up in NASCAR? Some drivers didn’t know. Others assumed it had to be Hendrick Motorsports — or, more…

Formula E’s first-ever double-header in the principality brought rain, controversy, paddock rumour and continuing contention about calendar clashes. Motorsport Week was on the ground in Monaco with all the big topics. Believe it or not, FE is now at approximately the half-way point in Season 11, with Nissan’s Oliver Rowland threatening to open-up a significant gap as the Japanese marque…

McLaren domination is starting to look like Oscar Piastri domination as he scored his fourth win in the last five grands prix in Miami. Had it not been for an unfortunately-timed Virtual Safety Car, he would have won the sprint race too. Piastri’s grand prix victory was his third in a row. He is the only driver besides Max Verstappen…

In a sports world dominated by mega-budgets, legacy brands and fierce loyalties, standing out isn’t easy, especially when you’re a relatively new challenger on the grid. Yet Nissan’s Formula E team has not only caught attention; it’s commanding it. Partnering with creative agency Dark Horses, the team has embraced an unconventional approach called “Noisy Thinking” (a strategy that fuses fast,…

Image credit: Oliver Rowland/Instagram Oliver Rowland has finally shared his first post on Instagram after his double achievement at the Monaco double-header. The leader in the Formula E Driver Standings won the Round 6 race and secured second place on the podium in the Round 7 race. He also congratulated Sebastien Buemi of Envision Racing for winning Round 7 and…

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Laurence EdmondsonMay 7, 2025, 02:21 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Two-time world rally champion Carlos Sainz Sr. is considering running for FIA president in elections set to be held in Uzbekistan later this year. The father of Williams Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr. told Autosport “now is the right time” to…

Laurence EdmondsonMay 7, 2025, 11:29 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 When Alpine announced Flavio Briatore’s return to its management last June, the team’s press release said the newly appointed executive advisor would “predominantly focus on top-level areas of the team.” Less than a year later, his presence is firmly stamped across all…

It’s a tired journalistic cliché to describe a piece of breaking news as “not a surprise.” But it is one that undoubtedly applies in the case of Franco Colapinto replacing Jack Doohan from the next round in Imola. Flavio Briatore, who returned to Formula 1 as a consultant to Alpine in the middle of last year, was long thought so…

Image credit: Nick Cassidy/Instagram Nick Cassidy was a relieved man as he stood on the third spot on the podium at the Monaco E-Prix Round 7 on Sunday. The Jaguar TCS Racing driver confessed he was actually “jumping up and down” on the inside as he reached the podium for the first time this season. However, it is his third…