Motorsport

Just one week after the United States Grand Prix, Formula 1 heads south of the border into Mexico for the second round of a triple header of races. Unlike last weekend in Austin, a traditional race weekend format awaits drivers in Mexico City. The thousands of passionate Mexican fans who will be heading to the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will be…

Nyck de Vries has said that he is “definitely for” the possibility of the long-awaited Attack Charge feature to be implemented in FIA Formula E for the forthcoming 11th season. The Dutchman, who helped lift the covers of his Mahindra team’s new M11Electro yesterday, says he is keen for the feature finally being put in place after much background checking…

Medals aplenty will be up for grabs when the third FIA Motorsport Games takes place in Valencia, Spain, from October 23-27. First held in 2019, the FIA Motorsport Games was created to unite FIA Member Clubs from around the world in a one-of-a-kind multidisciplinary competition. Participants compete for bronze, silver, and gold medals while proudly representing their national colours across…

In the round-up: Williams team principal James Vowles said the team’s core problem at the United States Grand Prix was a lack of performance in qualifying. In brief Medium ‘like a soft’ for Williams Williams scored one point in Austin, thanks to Franco Colapinto, but Vowles believes they could have taken more if they’d qualified higher up the grid. “I…

Nissan is a partner of Renault which oversees the Alpine motorsport project, so it makes sense that the Academy’s two brightest stars will get their chance to test the latest Formula E machinery. 23-year-old Floersch is the more experienced of the two women, she has most recently competed in Formula 3, where she has raced for the past three seasons….

Jaguar and Nissan have been hit with fines and testing restrictions for breaching Formula E’s cost cap regulations during the 2022-23 season, following the FIA’s Cost Cap Administration process. They are the first-ever breaches of Formula E’s cost cap regulations. Formula E introduced a cost cap of €13 million per season from the 2022-23 campaign – the ninth season of…

Liam Lawson was unimpressed at being pulled up for a track limits infringement early in his first grand prix for a year. However his team declared themselves extremely pleased with his performance as he rose from the back of the grid to finish ninth. He got a lot further than Lewis Hamilton, who spent more time in his car on…

Oct 23, 2024, 11:30 AM ET The United States Grand Prix saw Ferrari and Red Bull regain their form. Ferrari took a surprise one-two in the grand prix led by Charles Leclerc while Max Verstappen collected enough points from his sprint race victory and a third place on Sunday to extend his lead in the drivers’ championship. Lando Norris has…

The Jaguar and Nissan Formula E teams will become the first to serve a penalty for breaching Formula E’s cost cap. Both were adjudged to have overspent on aspects of the championship’s first financial regulations window covering what’s officially called the 2022-23 campaign (which we refer to from here as the 2023 season as no races took place within the…

Fernando Alonso says his Formula 1 career lasted far longer than he expected partly because he learned to accept how the sport is. The two-times world champion will make his 400th appearance in a grand prix at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez this weekend. Alonso, who said he originally thought he would leave F1 at the end of 2009, said he learned…

The Nissan and Jaguar Formula E teams have been handed a partial testing ban and fined after both outfits broke the championship’s cost cap limit for the 2022-23 season. Having completed its review of documentation from all 11 Formula E teams, the FIA announced on Wednesday that it had found Jaguar and Nissan to be in breach of the cost…

Oct 23, 2024, 05:47 AM ET Sauber hope to have next season’s driver line-up sorted by mid-November but that looks like one of the easier challenges facing new boss Mattia Binotto at what will become the Audi works Formula 1 team from 2026. The Swiss-based outfit are last with five rounds to go and have not scored a point for…

Andrea Kimi Antonelli will continue preparations for his Formula 1 debut by making his second appearance in a first practice session for Mercedes this week. The driver Mercedes named as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement next year will take over the seven-times world champion’s car for the first practice session at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Antonelli’s only previous outing for the team…

Less than a week ago, the Nissan Formula E Team revealed that it has inked a four-year global partnership with Middle East mobility solutions provider Petromin Corporation’s  EV charging subsidiary, Electromin. To support this strategic agreement, Electromin’s branding will appear on Nissan’s e-4ORCE 05 race cars, driven by Oliver Rowland and Norman Nato, as well as on the drivers’ suits,…

“I’ve never spun in the race before, not that I remember at least,” said a bemused Lewis Hamilton after his United States Grand Prix ended when he pirouetted into the turn 19 gravel trap on his second lap. “If I have, it can only be once, maybe, before, in all these years.” Hamilton seldom fails to remind journalists that his…

Synonymous with motorsport and not short on glitz or glamour given its picturesque Mediterranean coast location, Monte Carlo played host earlier this year to the unveiling of Formula E’s newest challenger – the Gen3 Evo. A traditional step change that’s come at the midpoint of the four-year cycle for all generations of Formula E cars so far, on the surface…

Mahindra Racing showcased a new livery for 2024/25 FIA Formula E Championship season, as they focused on red, silver and black scheme. The Anglo-Indian team signed Season 7 World Champion Nyck de Vries and Edo Mortara for Season 10 on multi-year deals and the pair are set to continue into Season 11 with the outfit after working their way into…

The United States Grand Prix stewards issued a controversial decision which had consequences for championship contenders Lando Norris and Max Verstappen. Norris overtook Verstappen on the outside of turn 12 but both drivers went off the track while doing so. The stewards ruled Norris had gained an advantage by leaving the track and handed him a five-second time penalty which…

Mahindra Racing has unveiled the “striking new challenger” it hopes will challenge for honours in Season 11 of the FIA Formula E World Championship. The M11Electro is the car the Indian outfit’s GEN3 Evo car, and what it hopes will propel them towards the front of the grid after a difficult Season 10. In a statement, its CEO Frederic Bertrand…