Motorsport

“You haven’t seen the last me yet in a Formula E car, that’s for sure.” If you thought Sam Bird had quietly slipped away from top level international motorsport you were mistaken. Now with the Nissan Formula E team as an official reserve and development driver, Bird will attend all E-Prixs in the coming season in that guise, one that…

Nov 20, 2025, 04:39 PM ET Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has sold his 15% stake in the Formula One team to American billionaire George Kurtz. Wolff, who owns one third of Mercedes, will remain as CEO and team principal, and is in Las Vegas for this weekend’s race. Editor’s Picks 1 Related The 53-year-old Austrian is set to earn close…

The FIA has accepted the quality of racing has deteriorated in Formula 1 in recent years as cars cannot follow each other closely. The series made a major effort to reduce the ‘dirty air’ generated by cars with the technical regulations it introduced in 2022. But much of the progress made then has reversed over the following years, the FIA’s…

BRS Working President K T Rama Rao on Friday said law would take its course in the Formula E race case in which the Governor has given the nod for his prosecution. Responding to the Governor’s decision, he said he is even ready for a lie detector test in the matter. “Law will take its own course. I have already…

Carlos Sainz Jnr was concerned to see a repeat of the manhole cover problems he encountered two years ago at the Las Vegas Strip Circuit. The second practice session was stopped twice on Thursday due to concern over a loose manhole cover between turns 16 and 17, though no cars were damaged. Sainz suffered a heavy impact with a loose…

Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and former IT minister K.T. Rama Rao coming out after being questioned by Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) officials, in Hyderabad, on January 9 2025. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma, has granted approval to the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to prosecute former minister K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) in the Formula-E car race…

Laurence EdmondsonNov 21, 2025, 12:55 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 The second practice session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix was red-flagged twice Thursday evening because of concerns over a loose maintenance cover near Turn 17. The stoppages had shades of a similar incident at the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix two…

Telangana governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Thursday granted permission to the state government to proceed with prosecution and custodial questioning of Bharat Rashtra Samithi working president and former minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) in the alleged misappropriation of funds related to the Formula E race held in Hyderabad in 2022, people familiar with the matter said. An official privy…

Laurence EdmondsonNov 20, 2025, 05:19 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Four-time champion Max Verstappen wants to change his career race number from 33 to 3 next year, assuming he does not win the championship and cannot continue with the No. 1. Since 2014, F1 drivers have been allowed to pick a race…

Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up. Social media and links Inside Audi’s secret F1 base as it prepares for ‘difficult’ debut (Autocar) ‘Crucially, Audi has opted to build its own power unit, no doubt discontented by the optics of becoming a client – a subordinate to Mercedes-AMG, Honda, Ferrari or Red Bull-Ford. This, chief operations officer Christian Foyer…

HYDERABAD: Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma on Thursday gave approval to prosecute former state minister and BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao in connection with alleged financial irregularities linked to the Hyderabad Formula E race.The sanction comes two months after the state government forwarded the file seeking approval to proceed against the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader. The case centres…

Hyderabad: Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has approved the prosecution of BRS working president and former minister KT Rama Rao in the Formula E financial irregularities case.Sources said the sanction came through on Nov 17, but was made public only on Thursday. News of Raj Bhavan’s nod immediately triggered a war of words between Congress and BJP over the alleged delay…

A judge has told Felipe Massa he can bring part of his legal case against Formula 1, the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone to trial in the UK. The former Ferrari driver is claiming £64 million in damages over the series’ handling of the notorious ‘Crashgate’ episode which he believes cost him victory in that year’s world championship. In a decision…

Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Verma on Thursday gave his nod to prosecute Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and Sircilla MLA K T Rama Rao in the alleged Hyderabad Formula E case. The state’s anti-corruption bureau (ACB) had written to the Governor on September 9 to seek his permission to begin the prosecution proceedings against Rao, popularly known as KTR,…

Nov 20, 2025, 07:25 AM ET Felipe Massa came runner-up in the 2008 F1 world title by just one point. James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa’s £64 million claim against F1, its governing body the FIA and Bernie Ecclestone can go to trial, a High Court judge has ruled. Lewis Hamilton’s first F1 world championship in…

In a move that feels almost like a homecoming, the Nissan Formula E Team has welcomed one of the championship’s most decorated drivers back into the fold. Sam Bird (pictured), the only man to have started every single Formula E race since the series lit up Beijing in 2014, will join the squad as reserve and development driver for the…

Formula E veteran Sam Bird has been signed by Nissan as its reserve and development driver for the forthcoming 12th season of the all-electric championship. Bird, who has been an omnipresent figure in Formula E since its inception in 2014, looked to be heading out of the series after NEOM McLaren’s withdrawal at the end of last season. At Season…

LAS VEGAS — Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc downplayed Ferrari chairman John Elkann’s criticism of their performances this season, insisting the comments were intended to be positive. Elkann caused a storm after F1’s most recent race in Brazil when he said that, while Ferrari’s mechanics and engineers were operating at a high level, the rest of the team — which…

Feature by Katy Fairman Formula E is one of the most competitive motorsports in the world, with almost 75 percent of the grid ending up on the podium last year and all 11 teams earning themselves a top three finish. This level of competition has resulted in 10 different champions across our first 11 seasons, with only one person being…