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Formula E Season 3 champion Lucas di Grassi has announced that he will be retiring from professional racing at the end of Season 12. Credit: Simon Galloway/LAT Images Lola Yamaha ABT and Lucas di Grassi have today announced that the Brazilian driver will be retiring from professional racing after the final race of Season 12 after a 12-year career. di…

Racing Bulls will change their livery for the Miami Grand Prix for the third year in a row. Red Bull’s second F1 team will carry a distinctive yellow colour scheme for this year’s race to promote a new flavour of the energy drink. Drivers Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad will also have matching race suits in the team’s special colours…

Lucas di Grassi is to call time on his long and distinguished racing career at the end of Formula E Season 12 in August. His entry in the series was a gamble, but boy did it pay off. Not just for him, but for Formula E itself. Motorsport Week recently interviewed the man who admitted he “bet” his career on…

Stellantis securing the services of Mitch Evans for at least the next few Formula E seasons should be seen as not just a statement of intent on its part but also a particularly shrewd move by Evans himself. While confirmation is still to officially be forthcoming from Opel, Evans will be a marquee signing for the ambitious brand, which is…

Cadillac will mark its first Formula 1 race on home ground this weekend by switching to a special, one-off livery. The team will replace its usual asymmetric design with a different look which is remains substantially monochrome, but features a few red and white highlights which the team calls a “subtle statement of pride” in its background. Drivers Sergio Perez…

The FIA has promised to keep the ‘biggest asset’ of Formula E for when it enters the Gen4 era in the upcoming 2026/27 campaign. Formula E will move onto its fourth generation of car next season, which is a significant upgrade on its predecessors and features 800+bhp, permanent all-wheel drive and power steering. It was recently unveiled at Circuit Paul Ricard,…

Welcome to Thursday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links ‘Es war Pech. Aber ich war am Leben’ (Die Zeit) Helmut Marko: ‘The reason (I left Red Bull) was my disappointment that we didn’t win the world championship in 2025; I wanted to draw conclusions from that for myself. It would have been Max’s fifth consecutive world championship….

Berlin E-Prix (Image credit: Formula E) The Berlin E-Prix returns to the historic Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit for Rounds 7 and 8 of Formula E Season 12. Known for its abrasive track, which wears the tyres sooner than expected, the circuit has a reputation for delivering unpredictable results and throwing race strategies off course. While Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein and DS…

Andretti Formula E returns to Berlin for Rounds 7 and 8 as the series heads to the iconic Tempelhof Airport Circuit, the only venue to feature on the calendar every season since Formula E’s inception. The 2.374km layout, set on the former historic airfield’s vast concrete apron, remains one of the most unique challenges in Formula E. Its abrasive, slab-based…

Mitch Evans and Antonio Felix Da Costa (Image credit: Jaguar TCS Racing_ Jaguar TCS Racing claimed a 1–2 finish in the most recent Formula E race in Madrid, and drivers Antonio Felix da Costa and Mitch Evans are in strong form to aim for a similar result at the upcoming Berlin E-Prix. The team is also riding a wave of…

Feature by Robin Goodwin “Tempelhof is a historic place; it’s a special location. With the track surface, it’s the concrete that stands out the most, as you know, it was meant for planes,” opens Maximilian Günther. Both Berlin and Tempelhof have been a long-standing stop on the Formula E calendar, and the all-electric racing series is getting set for another…

After a race-free April, Formula 1 returns in Miami ready to debut its reworked regulations. This weekend’s sprint event, featuring a specially-extended practice session, will give the first indication whether F1 has found working solutions to the problems with its 2026 regulations. The five-week break means we’re likely to see upgrades to most if not all of the cars, which…

Feature by Robin Goodwin The 2018 Berlin E-Prix started like any ordinary race day for Daniel Abt, but ended with a career-defining, fairy-tale win and a late-night (or early morning, depending on how you look at it) kebab. The German sat down to reminisce about how that perfect day came together. In the 2017/18 season, Abt, who was one of…

Formula E is back in action this weekend, and we’re returning to Berlin, a real fan favourite, for a double-header around Tempelhof Airport Here’s the global start times for all the racing action on Saturday 2 May & Sunday 3 May. Over the years, the track has hosted some of Formula E’s most iconic races, with titles won and lost…

Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Red Bull: We are not worried about Verstappen leaving (The Telegraph) ‘The team has been extremely successful and you can’t promote everyone. And some people make some decisions. In the big scheme of things – Max also knows very well – it represents such a tiny part, which…

The Berlin Tempelhof Street Circuit has seen many configurations over the years. Forwards, backwards, you name it, we’ve probably seen it. The iconic venue is back for another double-header event this weekend, so here’s all you need to know about the track.  Comprising 15 turns and 2.374km in length, the circuit is well-known by most of our grid as it…

It’s been a busy 12 months for motorcycle simulation specialist developers Milestone. In the 12 months since the Italian-based team last released an officially-licensed Moto GP game, the studio have also produced a new AMA Supercross title, the sixth instalment of RIDE – their ‘Gran Turismo on two wheels’ series – and even successfully rebooted a forgotten nineties racing game…

At a glance Through Racing for Charity, the Porsche Formula E Team donates money to charities for every racing lap they complete. One of the beneficiaries is Kinderherzen retten e.V., which provides life‑saving treatment for children. Simulator test driver Gabriela Jílková visits the Freiburg Children’s Heart Centre and experiences the impact of the team’s support. When she is in the…

Cadillac will mark its first Formula 1 race on home ground this weekend by switching to a special, one-off livery. The team will replace its usual asymmetric design with a different look which is remains substantially monochrome, but features a few red and white highlights which the team calls a “subtle statement of pride” in its background. Drivers Sergio Perez…