Hours after a highly dramatic Mexico ePrix, Lucas Di Grassi was disqualified from first place, which gave the pole sitter Jerome D’Ambrosio the race victory. The Belgian found himself locked in a tense battle against championship leader Sebastien Buemi, who was classified third. Loic Duval was also penalised and was demoted to fourth, which gifted […]
Championship leader Sebastien Buemi was quickest in the second practice ahead of this evening’s qualifying session. The Frenchman was quickest on a 1:03.341 ahead of the ABT pairing of Daniel Abt and Lucas Di Grassi. Abt found himself topping the session for quite a while after setting blistering second and third sector times, which most drivers […]
After the first three days of testing ahead of the 2016 GP2 season, Pierre Gasly was fastest of anyone at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Gasly’s former teammate Alex Lynn and newly signed ART team leader Sergey Sirotkin also looked very strong. New faces Prema Racing made a very good first impression and have proved they […]
Pierre Gasly was quickest for the second day running as he shattered the lap record for this and the last generation of GP2 cars. The Red Bull protege ended the final day of the first test ahead of the 2016 GP2 season with an impressive 1:27:386 in the morning session. The PREMA Racing driver was […]
Highly rated McLaren young driver Nyck de Vries will join ART Grand Prix to drive alongside already confirmed Japanese racing driver Nirei Fukuzumi. The 21-year-old Dutch racer tested for the ART team in the end of season tests at the Yas Marina circuit last year and ART has strong links with McLaren-Honda with three of […]
GP3 is set to enter a new era in 2016 with a new chassis – the Dallara GP3/16. This new chassis has the aims of increasing overtaking and further improving safety. All teams entering this new era must run three cars, however, have the option to run a fourth after the field shrunk to seven […]
Pirelli has announced they will give more freedom to Formula One teams for this year’s pre-season testing. Motorsport.com have reported that Pirelli is set to open up tyre choice for the two pre-season tests in Barcelona, unlike previous years where the teams were only allowed to choose half of the tyre compounds supplied by Pirelli. […]
Jaguar are in talks with a number of drivers for 2016/17 Formula E season when the British manufacturer enters the all-electric sport. According to Motorsport.com, Jaguar has three main candidates on their driver shortlist. 2014/15 Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr as well as multiple Formula E race winner Sam Bird and current Team Aguri […]
DS Virgin driver Sam Bird was fastest in a dramatic opening practise session for the 2015/16 Buenos Aires ePrix. The British driver topped the session with a respectable 1:09.913, he was one of the few drivers not to have his full power lap disrupted by yellow flags. Behind the ex-GP2 driver was Daniel Abt 0.389 […]
DS Virgin driver Jean-Eric Vergne is set to miss today’s Formula ePrix in Buenos Aires, Argentina due to illness. After missing the first practice session, the DS Virgin Team have announced that while Vergne would still like to race, the Team Principle Alex Tai has said no. BREAKING NEWS @JeanEricVergne has food poising still wants to […]
Racing Engineering have announced Norman Nato as their second driver alongside the returning Jordan King for the 2016 GP2 season. Nato raced for Arden in 2015, scoring 20 points, with a best finish of sixth. On occasions, Nato showed outstanding pace but was unable to convert it into consistent points, he also got involved in […]
Popular Mexican driver Sergio Perez turns 26 today. To celebrate, we will be counting down his top five races during his time in F1. Perez has certainly had an inconsistent time in his six seasons in Formula One so far. However, 2015 finally seemed to break the curse, in his second year with Force India, […]