Motorsport

Nissan have announced that Norman Nato will partner Oliver Rowland in its FIA Formula E squad for the forthcoming 11th season of the championship. The Japanese marque have confirmed that former driver Nato, who appeared to be out of Formula E after leaving Andretti in August, will return in place of Sacha Fenestraz, who was told by the team at…

Norman Nato will race for Nissan in the 2024-25 Formula E season and rejoin the team he was sidelined by last year in favour of his now-team-mate Oliver Rowland. The move follows a convoluted saga in which Nissan debated for weeks whether it would keep Sacha Fenestraz for a third season. The Race revealed earlier this month that Nato was…

Sep 11, 2024, 12:48 PM ET Red Bull teammates Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez have played tug-of-war for supremacy at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in recent years. Pérez won the race in 2021, Verstappen snatched it back in 2022, and Pérez returned to the winner’s circle last season. The pair will duke it out again this week as Formula 1…

FIA Formula E has announced a continuation in its upward trajectory in fan engagement upon the conclusion of the gripping 10th season of the sport. With data taken from Kantar Sport, Conviva/Hookit, Google Analytics for TV viewership metrics, social media analytics and website and app usage respectively, Formula E have concluded that significant spikes have been shown, thus proving a…

Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko is adamant their recent slump in form is not linked to Adrian Newey’s decision to leave the team. Newey confirmed yesterday he will join Aston Martin next year. He made his decision to step down at the Japanese Grand Prix in April and Red Bull announced his departure ahead of the Miami Grand Prix….

Formula E’s 2023-24 season spanned 16 races in total. (Formula E imagery) Formula E, the all-electric single-seater motor racing championship, claims to have secured record TV audience growth during its 2023-24 campaign. The series grew its global cumulative TV viewership by 35% during its 10th season (which ended in London in mid-July), to 491 million worldwide. In addition, the Monaco…

Andrea Kimi Antonelli faces a tougher start to life in Formula 1 than most drivers, says Lando Norris. Mercedes confirmed last month their junior driver will take over the seat Lewis Hamilton is to vacate at the end of the season. His ascent to F1 has been extraordinarily rapid, having bypassed Formula 3 to go straight into Formula 2 this…

Norman Nato will return to the Nissan Formula E team for the upcoming 2024-25 campaign, replacing Sacha Fenestraz. The Frenchman has rejoined the Japanese manufacturer after just one season with Andretti where he scored a single podium in Shanghai and finished 15th in the drivers’ standings, with his spot in the American team taken by Nico Muller. The 32-year-old previously…

In the round-up: Oliver Bearman expects to build on his first experience of competing in Formula 1 when he returns this weekend. In brief Bearman eager to tackle full weekend Bearman took over Carlos Sainz Jnr’s Ferrari at short notice during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend, missing the first two practice sessions. He expects more this weekend as he…

Sep 10, 2024, 10:07 AM ET CONCORD, N.C. — With NASCAR and the Coca-Cola 600 the promised priority, Kyle Larson will again attempt the Indianapolis 500 next season with the caveat he must leave if rain again ruins his bid to complete “The Double.” Larson in May became the fifth driver in history to attempt to complete 1,100 miles of…

Aston Martin has pulled off a massive coup by securing the services of Formula 1’s most highly-rated designer, Adrian Newey. The 65-year-old confirmed in May he had agreed to leave Red Bull at the beginning of next year. Ferrari was understood to be among the teams vying for his services. However Newey has turned down the opportunity to form a…

It’s Saturday at Buddh International Circuit in late October 2012 and Fernando Alonso is despondent. Three races earlier he held a 37-point lead over Lewis Hamilton at the top of the drivers’ championship. Sebastian Vettel was a further two points behind. Since then Vettel had won three races in a row, erasing Alonso’s championship lead and leaving him with a…

Aston Martin’s announcement today that Adrian Newey will take charge of their Formula 1 car design project next year is the culmination of a three-year-long pursuit by CEO Lawrence Stroll. He first approached Newey in 2021. At that time Red Bull’s chief technology officer was enjoying being back at the sharp edge of competition, and his RB16B delivered the first…

Image: Formula E The Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) E-Prix will make its mark on the Season 11 International Automobile Federation (FIA) Formula E World Championship calendar assuming hosting duties from Diriyah (town in Saudi Arabia). ‘MOTORSPORTWEEK’ stated that Diriyah has enjoyed six seasons of hosting the Formula E action but on February 14th-15th, 2025, the all-electric single-seater series will move to…

Adrian Newey, Formula One’s foremost designer, will join Aston Martin from Red Bull in March 2025, it was confirmed on Tuesday. Newey, the sport’s most successful car designer of all time, will join Aston Martin’s senior leadership in the newly-created role of managing technical partner and will lead the development of the team’s 2026 car. Aston Martin hopes to become…

Adrian Newey is F1’s most successful designer – but not everything he’s touched turned to gold. Here are his five greatest and worst cars. Top five Adrian Newey F1 cars 5. Red Bull RB19 Verstappen and the RB19 annihilated the competition Year: 2023Championship position: 1stWins: 21 Statistically speaking, this is not merely the most successful car Adrian Newey designed, but…

In the round-up: Recently-signed Audi F1 COO Mattia Binotto says Sauber need to make “immediate” changes to improve performance. In brief Sauber needs “immediate measures” to improve – Binotto Binotto says Sauber, which will become the Audi factory team in 2026, must make changes to improve their performance before Audi takes over operations of the team. “We cannot accept the…

The final third of the Formula 1 season begins this weekend with the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku City Circuit, where Formula 2 is also in action. Meanwhile the IndyCar season concludes at Nashville superspeedway, instead of the street circuit which was supposed to hold the race, where the championship will be decided. The World Endurance Championship season also continues…

The Red Bull RB8 which carried Sebastian Vettel to his third world championship title has reappeared since then in many of Red Bull’s different liveries. However for its latest showrun in Houston, Texas last week the team took the unusual step of repainting it in the colours of its second team: RB. Teams regularly run old cars in current liveries…