Lucas di Grassi won a thrilling Mexico City ePrix after making an early pit stop under the safety car. The Brazilian closed the gap between him and Buemi to just four points, with Buemi finishing outside of the top ten for the first time this season. His pit stop under an early safety car looked […]
Formula E is gearing up for the Mexico City ePrix, taking place for the second time at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. It’s been six weeks since the series raced in Buenos Aires, where Renault e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi continued his streak of winning each race of season three to extend his championship lead to 29 points over ABT Schaeffler […]
The first day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya saw Lewis Hamilton top the timesheets with a 1m21.765s, with Sebastian Vettel not too far behind. The lap time set by the Mercedes driver was faster than the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix pole lap and was achieved on the soft compound tyre. Sebastian Vettel was […]
A potential partnership between KV Racing and Carlin for the 2017 IndyCar season is very much in doubt, Trevor Carlin has told Motorsport. The Carlin team joined the Indy Lights series in 2015, and have been looking at running a car in IndyCar. A deal between Carlin and Kevin Kalkhoven of KV Racing was on […]
Josef Newgarden is confident that he will have a good start to the season with Team Penske, after joining the team from Ed Carpenter Racing. The 26-year-old thinks he will have a better time in his first season with the team than Simon Pagenaud had in 2015. While Pagenaud joined a new team of people […]
Four-time IndyCar Champion Scott Dixon thinks that the series and Formula One are heading in a different direction with cockpit protection and that a screen based design is more likely. Research into cockpit protection was made a priority after fatal accidents in both F1 and IndyCar in 2014 and 2015. F1 has focused on the halo device as […]
Former Formula One race winner Pastor Maldonado is in talks with KV Racing to join the IndyCar grid for the upcoming season. Motorsport have reported that the Venezuelan is interested in joining the American motorsport series, but that he wouldn’t race any of the oval tracks on the 2017 calendar. This would leave KV Racing […]
Antonio Felix da Costa took to Twitter to say that Indycar would be his destination of choice, after reports of the driver working on new drives. Autosport reported that the Portuguese driver was working on getting a seat with a World Endurance Championship LMP2 team, and that he could also join Pierre Gasly in Super […]
Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag is making Brazil a ‘priority’ for a new ePrix, with Lucas di Grassi already coming up with a potential track layout. There have been talks of wanting an ePrix in Brazil for some time, which would become the home race for season one champion Nelson Piquet Jr. and Abt Schaeffler’s Lucas di […]
Spencer Pigot will return to Ed Carpenter Racing for IndyCar’s road and street races this season, the team has confirmed today. The 23-year-old will once again pair up with team owner Ed Carpenter in the No. 20 car, with Carpenter competing in oval races and Pigot taking part in the 11 road and street courses that […]
Mikhail Aleshin’s future at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has been thrown into doubt due to problems with sponsorship, US motorsports magazine Racer reports. The 29-year-old Russian, who joined Indycar with the team before the start of the 2014 IndyCar season, looked set to stay in the series after some impressive oval races. However, it is understood that there […]
2016 saw a number of big moments in Formula 1 with the season culminating in Nico Rosberg‘s first World Drivers’ Championship and his subsequent retirement. We started off with a new qualifying format that was heavily criticised and subsequently dropped after two races. Driver changes occurred in the middle of the season, with Max Verstappen […]
