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Jan 21, 2025, 10:14 AM ET Lewis Hamilton is reuniting with his former performance coach Angela Cullen as he prepares for his first season with Ferrari, sources have told ESPN. Cullen, a physiotherapist from New Zealand, worked alongside Hamilton from 2016 until early 2023 and travelled with him to races during the height of his success with Mercedes. The pair…

Laurence Edmondson, Senior Writer, F1Jan 21, 2025, 04:00 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Following an overhaul of Haas’ trackside engineering team, Laura Mueller will become Esteban Ocon‘s race engineer this season while Carine Cridelich will join from rivals Racing Bulls as head of strategy in March. Although there is an increasing number…

Posted on 21st January 2025, 0:0120th January 2025, 23:28 | Written by Keith Collantine Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to OukilF1, Bruno and Ehsansatti! On this day in motorsport Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Posted on 21st January 2025, 0:0120th January 2025, 23:28Author Keith CollantineCategories Round-up  read more www.racefans.net

It was hard not to feel a creeping sense of inevitability about Sergio Perez’s position at Red Bull as he slipped worryingly far from Max Verstappen’s pace. In 2023. But Red Bull were so far ahead of the competition that year Perez’s under-performance didn’t matter. The team would have comfortably won the constructors’ championship with just Max Verstappen’s contribution. So…

It was only just over six months ago that Oliver Rowland was sat on a sofa in his then UK home (he’s since moved to Dubai) recovering from illness and watching his faint Formula E title hopes dwindling as the Portland round happened without him. Missing the penultimate event of the year must have been a dejecting experience. But he…

Laurence Edmondson, Senior Writer, F1Jan 20, 2025, 04:45 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Lewis Hamilton is visiting the headquarters of his new team, Ferrari, this week week in his first official engagement since joining at the start of the year. The seven-time world champion is expected to make his track debut in…

Logan Sargeant came into 2024 with a lot to prove having qualified behind his team mate in every round during his debut season and only taken a single point. Williams left no one in any doubt about their estimation of their drivers’ capabilities when they gave their sole remaining chassis to Alexander Albon for the Australian Grand Prix – even…

Claiming a Guinness World Record, introducing the sport to new faces and hosting a competition that focused on inclusion – all in a day’s work when Google Cloud and Formula E collaborated last year. Some 1,130 people attended an AI hackathon event staged around the London E-Prix in July as Google Cloud and Formula E offered the chance for contestants…

The 2025 Formula 1 season is still two months away but we already know what some of the main points of interest for the upcoming year will be. Will Red Bull’s new driver secure his place at the team for years to come? Will the FIA replace Mohammed Ben Sulayem? And are Formula One Management cooking up more changes for…

Posted on 19th January 2025, 0:0118th January 2025, 13:19 | Written by Keith Collantine Welcome to Sunday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Happy birthday! Happy birthday to MarkG! On this day in motorsport The 2009 world champion is 45 today Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Posted on 19th January 2025, 0:0118th January 2025, 13:19Author Keith CollantineCategories…

New Alpine team mates Pierre Gasly and Jack Doohan posed together at the final race of last year where the newcomer made an unexpected debut at short notice. But speculation over Doohan’s future started long before he began his first full season, after Alpine hired Franco Colapinto to join a young driver roster which already included Paul Aron and Ryo…

Oliver Rowland has said that the improved effects of Attack Mode in the GEN3 Evo cars has been “a breath of fresh air” for Formula E. The Briton kickstarted his Season 11 campaign with a brilliant victory in the Mexico City E-Prix, utilising his attacks perfectly – albeit with a little help from the Safety Car – to snatch the…

Hyundai could be the next major manufacturer to enter Formula E but it definitely won’t be there at the start of the Gen4 era in 2026. The Race revealed last month that Hyundai has had recent talks with McLaren about joining forces for a Formula E programme from 2028, the halfway mark of the Gen4 ruleset. That suggestion has now…

The bench, consisting of Justices Bela M Trivedi and PB Varale, declined to intervene in the orders passed by the High Court, but allowed withdrawal of the petition on the request of the senior counsel representing KT Rama Rao Updated On – 15 January 2025, 05:37 PM Hyderabad: The Supreme Court…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain KT Rama Rao’s petition to quash criminal proceedings against him in connection with the hosting of the Formula E racing championship, and told the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader that the allegations of corruption against him need to be examined first. Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader and Telangana leader of opposition KT Rama…

Hyderabad: Congress MP Chamala Kiran Kumar Reddy on Thursday alleged that former minister KT Rama Rao got the Formula E car race to Hyderabad only for the benefit of his friends. “He claims that he got the race organised to build the image of Hyderabad. Going by the monetary transactions that took place, it shows there were other motives,” he…

Hyderabad: Former minister and BRS working president K T Rama Rao appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday for questioning in the Formula-E case. Sources said KTR admitted to approving the transfer of funds from the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) to the race organizers, but maintained that the procedural adherence and compliance with rules was the responsibility of…

New Delhi: Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to entertain a plea of Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA and former minister K T Ram Rao seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against him in the alleged Formula-E race case.KTR moved the apex court challenging Telangana High Court‘s order refusing to quash a FIR against him in the case. A bench of Justices Bela…

KTR appears before the ED for questioning. (Screengrab) Tension built up at the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Office in Basheerbagh in Hyderabad on Thursday, 16 January, when BRS working president KT Rama Rao arrived. He had to appear before a team of the ED for questioning on his alleged role in what has come to be known as the Formula E…