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It’s a big weekend for Felipe Drugovich, not only is he making his full-time Formula E debut but he’s doing it at home in front of the Brazilian crowd for the 2025 Google Cloud São Paulo E-Prix.  Signed up with Andretti, partnering alongside Season 9 champion Jake Dennis, Drugovich gets ready to race in front of his home fans for…

McLaren have not discussed the possibility of imposing team orders to ensure one of its drivers wins the world championship this weekend, according to Lando Norris. He goes into this weekend’s race leading Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by 12 points, while his team mate Oscar Piastri is 16 points off the lead. A top-three finish for Norris would guarantee him…

The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship – the pinnacle of electric motorsport – storms into its 12th season. A grand total of 20 elite drivers from 10 teams will race the fastest-accelerating single-seaters on the planet for the title. The new car looks tremendous, and it retains a lot of the elements we’ve come to know, including ATTACK MODE….

Lewis Hamilton admitted he is concerned about Isack Hadjar’s forthcoming move to Red Bull, which the team announced earlier this week. The 21-year-old, who made his Formula 1 debut with Red Bull’s second team Racing Bulls this year, is being promoted to the top team for 2025. He will partner reigning world champion Max Verstappen at the team next year….

Felipe Drugovich drives GEN3 Evo car on GRU Airport (Image credit: Andretti/Instagram) Andretti rookie Felipe Drugovich made sure his Formula E debut would be one to remember. Set to race on home soil for the first time, he marked the occasion with a spectacular arrival. In a historic moment, he drove the GEN3 Evo car on the runway of Sao…

Lando Norris says his crash in the Canadian Grand Prix was the most obvious point in the season where he missed an opportunity to score more points. The McLaren driver goes into the final round of 2025 needing at least 14 points to clinch the world championship. However he lost 10 when he crashed out of fifth place while trying…

Formula E’s 12th campaign, which gets underway this Saturday in São Paulo, could be its closest yet, with the championship entering the final season of the Gen3 era. As with any motorsport series, the field closes together as it reaches the end of a regulation or car cycle. There is already a firm eye on the introduction of Gen4 next…

YAS MARINA, Abu Dhabi – Andrea Kimi Antonelli said support from friends and family helped him quickly forget the “difficult” online abuse he got after the Qatar Grand Prix, adding that Max Verstappen reached out to tell him to ignore the trolls. The social media accounts of Italian teenager Antonelli, 19, were bombarded with over 1100 “severe or suspect comments,”…

Nine Formula 1 drivers including championship contender Oscar Piastri will miss the first practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. F1 teams have confirmed which junior drivers will appear in first practice at Yas Marina tomorrow as they fulfil their obligations under the rules. Pato O’Ward will make his fifth appearance for McLaren tomorrow as he stands in for…

Nick Cassidy has been one of the busiest men in racing these last few months. And he loves it that way. The now Citroen Racing driver, who has a genuine claim to being the grandmaster of the Gen3 rules era (with 10 victories and a championship finishing record that reads second-third-second), is keen to continue his streak to not only…

Laurence EdmondsonDec 4, 2025, 02:15 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Toyota Gazoo Racing will become the title partner of the Haas Formula 1 team next year in a deal that will strengthen the ties between the Japanese motor company and the American racing team. Toyota’s motorsport arm, known as Toyota Gazoo Racing,…

Formula E has conceded it may be unable to continue racing at London’s ExCel Centre in the Gen4 era, and has begun assessing alternative venues to maintain a UK round on the calendar. The all-electric championship returned to the British capital in 2021 with a race around the ExCeL, five years after the Battersea Park layout was dropped following its…

Sao Paulo E-Prix (Image credit: Formula E) After a four-month break, Formula E teams are all set to return to the track as Season 12 kicks off with Round 1 — the Sao Paulo E-Prix on December 6. Oliver Rowland, last season’s Formula E champion, will be defending his title. But there is much more to look forward to, with…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Front Row Motorsports owner Bob Jenkins testified Wednesday in the federal antitrust case against NASCAR that he was “honestly very hurt” by a “take-it-or-leave-it” offer on a new charter agreement that came with a deadline of mere hours to sign the 112-page document. Jenkins, alongside 23XI Motorsports, is suing NASCAR over antitrust claims for the charter agreement…

Max Verstappen’s 70th career victory undoubtedly stands as one of his most important as it means he will go into the final round with a serious chance of winning the world championship. The surprise result set up F1’s first final-round title-decider involving more than two drivers since the 2010 season. This remains the only time more than three drivers have…

Season 12 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship begins this weekend as the Andretti Formula E team returns to the fast, slipstream-heavy streets of São Paulo, Brazil. The 2.933km, 11-turn Anhembi Sambadrome circuit once again plays host to the season opener, with its signature long straights and heavy braking zones promising close racing and bold overtaking across the…

Round 24 of 24 – the finale. What a final race it’s going to be in Abu Dhabi as the sun sets on another Formula 1 season. In the modern era of F1, it’s rare for the title to come down to the final race, and even more unusual for it to be a three-way title fight into the final…

This weekend Formula 1 will have its first championship-deciding season finale since the notorious 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. That year’s world championship fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton ended in bitter controversy. Formula 1 and the FIA stood accused of failing to apply their own rules correctly, affecting the outcome of the world championship as a result. The…

There’s a big year ahead in Formula E – not least because the Gen4 era – and the associated team, manufacturer and driver decisions – is now on the horizon. With the 2025-26 season kicking off in Sao Paulo this weekend, Sam Smith picks out five storylines central to the next 12 months in the championship. Echoes of Formula E’s…