Motorsport

Slippery conditions greeted IndyCar drivers as they explored their second new street circuit in as many weekends. The series’ new circuit in Washington is an extremely simple layout consisting of just seven corners. Drivers also discovered an aggressive bump at one of the fastest point on the circuit approaching turn two, where several of them went wide, including Nolan Siegel…

How do Formula 1 teams coach their drivers to prevent them giving unfavourable answers to the media? Photographer Michael Potts gained a revealing glimpse of Racing Bulls’ instructions to Yuki Tsunoda as his media guidance sheet was visible in a picture taken at Zandvoort this weekend. The document is headed with handwritten notes including unanswered potential questions such as “have…

George Russell has taken provisional pole position for the Dutch Grand Prix sprint race for Mercedes ahead of Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc. Sprint race qualifying results P. Driver Team Q1 Q2 (v Q1) Q3 (v Q2) 1 George Russell Mercedes 1’13.278 1’12.235 (-1.043s) 1’11.567 (-0.668s) 2 Lando Norris McLaren 1’13.071 1’12.189 (-0.882s) 1’11.608 (-0.581s) 3 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1’13.011…

Pascal Wehrlein wins the Formula E title. Pascal Wehrlein of Porsche Formula E Team won his second ABB FIA Formula E Drivers’ World Championship after a dramatic final race of the season in London on Sunday. Wehrlein faced strong pressure from Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans and Andretti’s Jake Dennis during the race. The title fight changed several times before…

For Formula E, the London E-Prix at ExCel has provided a unique racetrack since 2021, taking drivers from indoors to outdoors, from silky smooth surfaces to flowing chicanes. However, the final London E-Prix at this venue took place on 15 August. The advent of the next generation of Formula E vehicles – Gen4, which will hit circuits next season –…

Following its recent launch into one of China’s largest mobile games, Game for Peace, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship has teamed up with Tencent once again. Starting 21 August, players in China will be able to take the wheel of the title-winning Porsche GEN3 99X Electric, bringing peak electric performance, high-torque acceleration, and energy recovery mechanics to Need…

Taylor Barnard won London E-Prix on Sunday. (Image credit: Instagram) Taylor Barnard became Formula E’s youngest-ever race winner after a dramatic victory in the season finale at London’s ExCeL on Sunday. The 22-year-old DS PENSKE driver made a late move on Mahindra Racing’s Nyck de Vries with just two laps remaining to take his maiden Formula E victory. At 22…

Isack Hadjar’s absence from this weekend’s race has caused two changes to the line-up. Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda appeared in their new team outfits at Zandvoort today. They are back at the teams they most recently drove for in last year’s Chinese Grand Prix, before Red Bull swapped them. This weekend’s grand prix will be Lawson’s third appearance for…

São Paulo, Round 1 In the opening round of the 2025/26 Formula E season it was Andretti’s Jake Dennis who came out on top after converting pole position into the win in the 2025 Google Cloud São Paulo E-Prix Round 1, though it was anything but a simple lights-to-flag in a hectic 30-lap race. The Season 9 World Champion had…

The FIA was quick to call attention to Max Verstappen’s new Red Bull contract, saying his commitment to Formula 1 shows the sport is in a healthy state. Verstappen agreed to extend his current deal despite having previously indicated he could leave F1 due to his strong dislike of F1’s power unit regulations and the effect they have had upon…

The FIA will enforce its sporting regulations more strictly in Formula E’s Gen4 era to clamp down on teams colluding to “manipulate” races. Manufacturers in Formula E hold significant influence over their customer teams, with some agreements extending far beyond the supply of powertrains. This was particularly evident in last weekend’s London finale, when Cupra Kiro driver Dan Ticktum admitted…

Isack Hadjar will miss this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix after injuring his wrist. Red Bull has called up Liam Lawson from its junior team Racing Bulls to take Hadjar’s place. Lawson started two grands prix for Red Bull at the beginning of last season before being dropped. Racing Bulls will replace Lawson by calling up Yuki Tsunoda, who drove for…

Youngest driver to start a Formula E race, youngest pole sitter and youngest driver to claim a podium. Heading into the final race weekend of the 2025/26 season, DS PENSKE‘s Taylor Barnard was missing just one record (and arguably the most important one) – to be named Formula E’s youngest race winner.  REPORT: Wehrlein navigates dramatic finale to seal Drivers’…

On this day 25 years ago Michael Schumacher won the world championship for the fourth time. The Ferrari driver’s victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix was his seventh of the season. With four rounds left it gave him an unassailable 43-point lead over David Coulthard (a win was worth 10 points at the time). At the time Schumacher was only…

Porsche team principal Florian Modlinger believes the tight and twisty London E-Prix circuit was deliberately chosen to host the Formula E season finale in order to “create chaos” in the championship battle. The 2025-26 campaign ended with a controversial showdown in Britain, as Porsche and Jaguar threw everything they had to win the drivers’ and teams’ titles.  On Saturday, both…

Carlos Sainz Jnr has extended his commitment to Williams by signing a new, “multi-year” contract to drive for the team. The announcement comes one day after Sainz’s team mate Alexander Albon confirmed he will remain at Williams next year. Sainz joined the team last year after being dropped by Ferrari to make way for Lewis Hamilton. He finished on the…

Pascal Wehrlein “Under the circumstances we had today, very special. Even though I must say the first one is always a bit more exciting. That’s definitely the case, but today it was definitely a tough race. Never expected that what happened would happen, but, anyways, it is what it is. We made it. “We set the base for today, in…

Will Formula 1 say goodbye to Zandvoort with a home victory for Max Verstappen? Here are this weekend’s talking points. FIA hands Putin a propaganda coup Four-and-a-half years after Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the FIA has suddenly abandoned most of the steps it took in the aftermath to prevent Russia exploiting motorsport for propaganda, without explanation. Russian competitors…

At Goodwood Festival of Speed, Google Cloud and Formula E turned the new 815hp GEN4 into a moving AI laboratory, using a Pixel 10 Pro to process live telemetry and coach driver Dan Ticktum on the hillclimb. https://www.fiaformulae.com/ At 150 miles per hour, there is very little time to ask an AI assistant where you are losing speed. Yet that…