Motorsport

If McLaren successfully overturns the five-second time penalty the stewards handed Lando Norris at the end of last weekend’s United States Grand Prix it will provide a useful boost to his championship hopes. The penalty promoted Norris’ championship rival Max Verstappen to third in his place, resulting in a six-point swing. Reverse that and Norris’ deficit falls from 57 points…

Japanese Super GT Championship racer and Toyota Gazoo Racing development driver Miki Koyama will drive for Lola in the all-female Formula E test session at Valencia next month. Koyama was last seen in European racing in 2021 when she took part in eight W Series races, claiming a best result of fifth at the opening Red Bull Ring event. Since…

MEXICO CITY — McLaren has submitted a right of review over the penalty that dropped Lando Norris behind title rival Max Verstappen at the U.S. Grand Prix. Norris was handed a five-second penalty after passing Verstappen off track in the closing laps of the Austin race. Verstappen had also left the circuit defending the position, leaving Norris and McLaren puzzled…

Formula 1’s rules which allow drivers to defend their position by running off track are not correct, says Lando Norris. The McLaren driver made the comment after he was penalised for overtaking Max Verstappen off the track towards the end of last weekend’s United States Grand Prix. Norris overtook Verstappen on the outside approaching turn 12 on lap 52, but…

Tag Heuer Porsche has revealed its GEN3 Evo car that will compete in the FIA Formula E championship for the next two seasons. The Porsche 99X Electric is the challenger that it hopes will enable Pascal Wehrlein to successfully defend his title, and carries a new and vibrant colour scheme. Ditching the white, black and red colours of previous seasons,…

The longest DRS zone along the main straight at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez has been shortened compared to last season. The circuit, which hosts this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix, will once again boast three separate DRS activation zones around its 4.3km length. Officially, the first DRS activation zone on the circuit is listed at the exit of turn 11, the…

October 24, 2024 The two year deal will see the apparel from sustainable sportswear brand, Reflo, be worn by drivers and members of Nissan Formula E Team across Season 11 (2024/25) and Season 12 (2025/26) UK, 24th October 2024 /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Nissan Formula E Team has today announced a new partnership with sustainable sportswear brand Reflo, who become the…

Williams will change its livery for the next two races as part of a promotion with one of its sponsors. The FW46s will sport bright yellow engine covers at this weekend’s Mexican Grand Prix and the Brazilian Grand Prix next week. Williams described the change as “a nod to the team’s championship-winning heritage.” Williams cars featured the yellow colours of…

Porsche will defend its first ever Formula E title in different colours in the forthcoming season – but its new Gen3Evo car is very much an evolution of the successful original Gen3 model. Most manufacturers are following suit with refined and upgraded powertrains in the new campaign while also starting work on their Gen4 packages for what will be Formula…

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…