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Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Is consumer demand for Las Vegas casinos softening? (Las Vegas Review-Journal) ‘The monthly gaming revenue declines in the second half of 2024 can largely be attributed to a few factors, experts said, including difficult year-over-year comparisons to a few exceptional months in 2023 and significant statistical swings in…

A former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader has lodged a formal complaint against Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy. The complaint lodged against the CM alleged “criminal breach of trust” and substantial financial loss to the state exchequer due to “abrupt” cancellation of the Formula E race event in Hyderabad, India Today reported. Telangana…

Lewis Hamilton will continue to get to grips with life as a Ferrari driver during a private test session for him and teammate Charles Leclerc in Barcelona this week. Ferrari has booked the Circuit de Catalunya, host of the Spanish Grand Prix, for three days in a test running from Jan. 28-30. On Tuesday, Ferrari shared an image of Leclerc…

Lewis Hamilton continued preparations for his debut as a Ferrari grand prix driver by testing one of the team’s cars at the Circuit de Catalunya today. The seven-times world champion drove a 2023-specification SF-23 chassis at the home of the Spanish Grand Prix. He previously tested the car at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track last week. The SF-23 was the only…

Nico Mueller is three and half years older than his Andretti Formula E team-mate Jake Dennis and has more overall racing experience. Yet when it comes down to arriving at perhaps one of the championship’s most single-driver-focused set-ups, then it’s naturally Mueller who has had to adapt and learn. It is early days for Formula E’s tallest-ever driver pairing but,…

BRS leader and Ex-IPS officer R.S. Praveen Kumar lodging a complaint with Narsingi police on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement HYDERABAD Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former IPS officer R.S. Praveen Kumar on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the Narsingi police against Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy citing criminal breach of trust and causing substantial loss to the…

Formula 1’s competitive order might be dictated by engine power with the new rule change in 2026, according to new Aston Martin designer Adrian Newey. Newey was poached from Red Bull by Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll as part of the ambition to make the team title contenders under the new regulations. Newey’s cars dominated F1 in spells either side…

Oliver Rowland Formula E, Mexico City 11/1/25 Oliver Rowland had 80sec to capitalise on the strategic advantage that had fallen his way – and it’s fair to say the Barnsley-born 32-year-old made the most of it. Within a mile of racing resuming following a safety car, Rowland had passed three Formula E champions to claim his fourth career victory in…

Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Rookie free practice set for Jeddah EPrix weekend (Formula E) ‘The 40-minute session, scheduled for Thursday, 13 February from 16:00 to 16:40, will provide experienced racing talent from other motorsport championships valuable track time to discover the new, ground-breaking technology of Formula E’s Gen3 Evo car.’ Pramac Racing…

It’s always good to be back in Mexico City. It’s one of the best on the Formula E calendar with a sell-out crowd of such passionate fans. In fact, as I am writing this, it is two hours after the race and there are hundreds of fans outside our garage chanting the names of our drivers. It’s a pleasure to…

Jan 27, 2025, 10:58 AM ET Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson is now the majority owner of Legacy Motor Club under a restructuring in which investment adviser Knighthead Capital Management bought into the Cup Series team. Knighthead manages $9 billion of assets with a portfolio that includes investments in Hertz, World Endurance Championship sports car team JOTA Racing, Singer Vehicle……

Jan 26, 2025, 02:09 PM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Roger Penske started his 59th season in motorsports the same way he closed last year — as a champion. Porsche Penske Motorsport on Sunday won the Rolex 24 at Daytona for the second consecutive year, and third time overall, to continue the domination “The Captain” flexed all of last season….

There has always been a peculiar push to describe Formula E as the child of motorsport in the grander scheme of the racing landscape. In all probability it was former FIA president Jean Todt who started this vogue. A decade on and it has already been described as a teenager. If the trend is applicable to Cupra then it is…

Every Formula 1 driver on the grid heads into the new season with the goal of fighting for the world championship. While Max Verstappen prevailed again last year, his closest rival for the title had never previously been involved in a championship fight. In his sixth full season in the sport, all with McLaren, Lando Norris had his most successful…

Lewis Hamilton had the first-day-in-a-new-job butterflies this week as he arrived at Maranello for his first official appearance as an Ferrari Formula 1 driver. The seven-times world champion met team members and fans, and sampled a 2023 Ferrari on a damp Fiorano, as did his new team mate Charles Leclerc. Can you come up with the best caption for this…

“We want to do things differently to any other motorsport” is a phrase – coined by Formula E co-founder Alberto Longo earlier this week – that certainly wouldn’t be out of place as the all-electric championship’s motto. Innovative systems to spice up the racing in Formula E are nothing new and during its 10-year tenure the championship has implemented several,…

After years of waiting and many false starts, Formula E is finally going to debut its mid-race charging system, which will give cars a quick boost of energy charging at a rate much faster than current road cars can. For years now, we’ve been hearing about FIA plans to introduce charging stops to electric racing. In gas car racing, some…

Formula E, the world’s first all-electric FIA World Championship, has announced a revolutionary new feature set to debut in Season 11: PIT BOOST. This innovative mid-race strategy element promises to enhance unpredictability, heighten fan engagement, and showcase cutting-edge electric vehicle (EV) ultra-fast recharging technology. What is PIT BOOST? PIT BOOST provides race cars with a 10% energy surge (3.85kWh) via…

8 After nearly two years of testing, the Pit Boost will make its debut during the double headers of Season 11 in Formula E. After a long period of development and testing, lasting around two years, pit stops are finally making their return to Formula E with the introduction of the so-called Pit Boost. This system will debut at the…