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Image credit: Nick Cassidy/Instagram Nick Cassidy belted out Taylor Swift’s Love Story with his teammates after securing his first win of the season in Shanghai. He followed it up with a second victory in Berlin on Sunday, but the Jaguar TCS Racing driver was quick to shift the spotlight to Nissan’s Oliver Rowland, who nearly stole the show by clinching…

Nissan driver Oliver Rowland was crowned 2025 Formula E champion at the Berlin E-Prix, with two rounds still to go. The title battle was prolonged to the second Berlin race after Rowland retired on Saturday, while his prime rival Pascal Wehrlein finished P2. However, Sunday’s race saw a reversal of fortune. Wehrlein didn’t score any points in the race, leaving…

For the first time since Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg duked it out for the 2016 crown, the championship looks like being a straight fight between two drivers in the same team. With Max Verstappen’s hopes fading, the 2025 Formula 1 world drivers’ championship crown increasingly appears destined for one of the two McLaren drivers. But which one? At the…

Oliver Rowland has been crowned the 2024-25 Formula E world champion after finishing fourth in the second Berlin E-Prix of the weekend, which was won by Nick Cassidy. Chief title rival Pascal Wehrlein needed another strong points finish to keep his championship defence going into the double-header London finale, but faded during the race and slipped to 16th at the…

Jaguar TCS Racing emerged as the biggest winner at this season’s Berlin E-Prix. While Mitch Evans won Round 13 on Saturday, his teammate Nick Cassidy claimed victory in Round 14 on Sunday. Cassidy was followed by Andretti’s Jake Dennis in second and DS Penske’s Jean-Éric Vergne in third. However, it was Nissan’s Oliver Rowland who narrowly missed the podium by…

After looking dominant for most of the Formula E season, Nissan’s Oliver Rowland clinched his first world championship drivers’ title on Sunday in Berlin. After a strong start to the 2024-25 campaign with four wins and a further three podiums, Rowland was able to bounce back from a grid penalty to finish fourth while his title contenders fell short.   Rowland…

Image credit: Pascal Wehrlein/Instagram It was a special day for German driver Pascal Wehrlein at his home race, the Berlin E-Prix, on Saturday. Despite facing a three-place grid penalty, the TAG Heuer Porsche driver delivered a stellar performance to reach the podium. Wehrlein, driving car No. 94, finished second in Round 13 at the Tempelhof Airport Circuit and celebrated the…

Jul 14, 2025, 11:11 AM ET The two race teams suing NASCAR over antitrust allegations filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction Monday to be recognized as chartered organizations for the remainder of 2025. 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports are locked in a lengthy legal battle over the charter system, which is the equivalent of the franchise…

Toyota drivers Sho Tsuboi and Ryo Hirakawa will test for Haas at former Formula 1 venue Fuji during the championship’s summer break next month. The test has been arranged as part of Haas’s technical co-operation with the Japanese manufacturer, which competes in the World Endurance Championship, Japanese Super Formula series and other categories. Hirakawa will be first to drive the…

There’s still two races to go, but an implosion by Porsche handed the Formula E title to Oliver Rowland one weekend early. And that was just one of the big storylines from the Berlin double-header. Of course, the title winner has made the headlines, but Sam Smith is on hand to pick out more winners and losers from the penultimate…

Williams hiring Carlos Sainz Jnr was a statement of the team’s ambition as James Vowles seeks to move the squad up the grid. But so far his big-name hiring from Ferrari is yet to produce the kind of headline-grabbing result that was expected of him. Instead Alexander Albon, in his fourth season at the team, has delivered more than three-quarters…

Holding third in the championship in Germany, the Franco-American team’s goal was to maintain its position. The goal was achieved thanks to the exceptional performance of Jean-Eric Vergne, who finished third after starting from 18th on the grid. On this second day on the historic Tempelhof Airport circuit in Berlin, the Formula E World Championship first had to contend with…

As F1 reaches its halfway point RaceFans analyses how each pair of team mates is performing, starting with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Yuki Tsunoda. Whatever motivated Red Bull’s decision to dispense with Christian Horner’s services last week, his handling of the team’s second car alongside Max Verstappen cannot have inspired confidence in his leadership. Sergio Perez may have finished…

New Formula E champion Oliver Rowland wasn’t even on the grid two years ago. He pretty much voluntarily dropped off it halfway through a coruscating 2023 season, his second with Mahindra, with the team in a state of rebuild and with an initial Gen3 package that was easily the least competitive on the grid. Rowland admitted as much in the…

British driver Oliver Rowland has become the 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E World Champion, after an incredibly hard fought race on the streets of Berlin – while Jaguar made it two wins from two on the Tempelhof circuit this weekend. Nissan Formula E Driver Oliver Rowland achieved a life-long dream of lifting a FIA single-seater title this weekend (13 July),…

Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to ryanmack09! On this day in motorsport 40 years ago today Hockenheim’s round of the World Sportscar Championship was marred by several fires in the pits, the worst of which left Porsche boss Norbert Singer hospitalised for weeks with burns. His drivers Hans-Joachim Stuck and Derek Bell won….

For a huge portion of the current Formula E season, the talk has been about how it’s Oliver Rowland’s championship to lose, and how he’s already got it nailed down. Talk became truth on Sunday when the Nissan driver emerged from Berlin with enough of a points buffer to ensure that reigning champion and nearest contender Pascal Wehrlein couldn’t overhaul…

Oliver Rowland didn’t win the race at the Berlin E-Prix on Sunday, yet he was undoubtedly the biggest winner of the day at the Tempelhof Airport Circuit. The Nissan driver finished fourth, but his 12-point score was enough to crown him the new Formula E World Champion, bringing his total in the Drivers’ Standings to 184 points. The moment became…

New Zealand Formula E drivers Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy. Photo: Paulo Maria / AFP Formula E is poised to extend an exclusive deal with motorsport’s world governing body that will ensure it remains the only all-electric racing series sanctioned by the FIA for decades to come. Majority owned since last year by telecoms company Liberty Global, Formula E began…