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Max Verstappen’s former course record at the Miami International Circuit was beaten by not one but six drivers during qualifying for today’s sprint race. However one driver who failed to get close to it was Verstappen’s latest team mate, Yuki Tsunoda. He initially impressed with his performance compared to Verstappen when he replaced his previous team mate, Liam Lawson, at…

Formula E championship leader Oliver Rowland executed another strategic masterclass to win the first race of Formula E’s Monaco double-header weekend. Rowland had a sore hand after a shunt in the final part of qualifying, complained of a “strange noise” from the car on the way to the grid and had a gearbox warning during the race, but shrugged all…

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has expressed doubt teams will be able to achieve the lower minimum weight limit set by the FIA for the 2026 Formula 1 season. The limit is set to fall next year following over 15 years of increases which have pushed it from 605 kilograms to 800kg. The FIA originally announced next year’s limit…

Nothing seems more unpredictable than a Formula E race. On the first day of the Monaco double-header—Round 6 on Saturday—Dan Ticktum of Cupra Kiro topped both the first and second free practice sessions. This is an encouraging achievement for the 25-year-old driver, who is still chasing his first win in Formula E.Dan Ticktum gets a big boost during Monaco E-Prix…

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Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans has lamented the forthcoming departure of team principal James Barclay, saying he is a “great friend” and a “great leader”, as the team looks to reinvigorate its season at this weekend’s Formula E Monaco E-Prix. Barclay has been involved with the British marque’s involvement in FE from Season 3, when Evans was one of its…

Andrea Kimi Antonelli has taken provisional pole position for the Miami Grand Prix sprint race for Mercedes ahead of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. P. Driver Team Q1 Q2 (v Q1) Q3 (v Q2) 1 Andrea Kimi Antonelli Mercedes 1’27.858 1’27.384 (-0.474s) 1’26.482 (-0.902s) 2 Oscar Piastri McLaren 1’27.951 1’27.354 (-0.597s) 1’26.527 (-0.827s) 3 Lando Norris McLaren 1’27.890 1’27.109 (-0.781s)…

Formula E docuseries, Formula E: Driver, is now available on Prime Video in 38 territories. The four-part series is produced by Astronaut Films and provides a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of four Formula E drivers —António Félix da Costa from TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team; Mitch Evans from Jaguar TCS Racing; Jake Dennis from Andretti Formula E; and…

Andrea Kimi Antonelli is wary of his chances of converting his first pole position into victory in the Miami sprint race. All six races so far this year have been won from pole position, with the exception of the last round, where pole-winner Max Verstappen incurred a five-second time penalty which dropped him behind Oscar Piastri. The only previous sprint…

Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds and championship co-founder Alberto Longo have revealed several details in regard to the 2025/26 calendar. The all-electric series will submit its provisional schedule for next season in 19 days, with it to then be approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council. As already known following the signing of a new contract, London’s Excel Centre…

MIAMI — Mercedes wunderkind rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli beat the McLaren drivers to pole position for the sprint race in Miami and in doing so became the youngest pole sitter in any Formula 1 format. Antonelli, 18, beat championship leader Oscar Piastri by 0.045 seconds to top a competitive F1 session for the first time in his young career. Antonelli…

Fresh concerns have been raised that Formula 1 drivers may have to perform extreme energy saving techniques when next year’s power units are introduced. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, who expressed similar concerns when the new engines were first simulated two years ago, is pushing for late changes to the regulations to reduce the amount of “lift and coast”…

NEOM McLaren driver Taylor Barnard has indicated he would like to stay in Formula E, as the British youngster faces an uncertain future with the team opting to pull out at the end of the season. Barnard, who was signed as a full-time driver for this season after impressing as a stand-in in Season 10, has already become the all-electric…

The new deal with Miami makes it the longest contract for F1 race venues. Pauline Ballet – Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images MIAMI, FL — Formula 1 will continue racing at the Miami Grand Prix until 2041 after they annonunced a bumper contract extension on Friday. F1’s Miami race joined the calendar in 2022 on a deal through to 2031….

The boom in Formula 1’s popularity in recent years is so often credited to the Netflix series ‘Drive to Survive’, that its success spawned several other attempts to capture the inner workings of a sporting championship. Few have succeeded, and fewer still if you look at the other motorsports series out there but, in its Amazon Prime-released ‘Driver’, Formula E…

The latest immersive racing docuseries follows four top competitors on the Formula E World Championship circuit. In its final weeks, S.W.A.T. moves an hour earlier, with the team on the trail of prison escapees. The award-winning Israeli drama Bad Boy depicts harrowing conditions within a juvenile detention facility. The movie Rust, which made headlines after a tragic on-set accident, is…

MIAMI — Fernando Alonso has admitted that Aston Martin has found the start of the 2025 Formula 1 season “more difficult than expected” and is expecting another “tough weekend” at the Miami Grand Prix. The 43-year-old Spaniard is 17th in the drivers’ championship and has failed to score a single point in 2025. It’s the first time since 2017 that…

A new four-part documentary featuring behind the scenes access into the world of Formula E has been released.  Formula E: Driver, which celebrates the ten year anniversary of the all-electric championships, follows four of the sport’s stars across the 2023-24 Formula E World Championship series.  Each episode, dropping on Amazon Prime, focuses on a different driver including Brit Jake Dennis, who competes…

ABB FIA Formula E World Championship competitors are amping up to tackle a tortuous track that epitomises the trade-off between risk and reward.  The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship makes the first European stop of its 2024/25 campaign this weekend (3-4 May), as the GEN3 Evo car returns to the scene of its public debut – Monaco. THREADING THE…