Dragon Racing has announced that German racer Maximillian Gunther will partner Jose Maria Lopez at the team in season five. Gunther is currently 14th in Formula 2 driving for BWT Arden, with 41 points. He has tested for the team extensively, most recently at the public pre-season tests in Valencia in October. “I’m really happy to […]
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Last season, Sam Bird kept in the title hunt with eventual winner Jean-Eric Vergne until the penultimate race in New York. After four seasons as the perennial nearly man, he now has perhaps his best opportunity yet to become Formula E champion. Making predictions about a season of Formula E is always tricky, especially when there […]
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Formula E has made a bold step in making YouTube personality KSI (Olajide Olatunji) the face of their new YouTube streaming service in the UK. KSI will be joined by podcast creator Laurence McKenna as the host of the stream. Formula E has taken a gamble in picking both KSI and McKenna to host the […]
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Virgin Racing focused on improving their energy management during the three-day pre-season test at Valencia rather than focusing on their performance. The British team’s team principal Sylvain Filippi felt that the Valencia circuit was not an accurate representation of a Formula E circuit despite its modifications. “We’ve had a lot to learn and get through this week, […]
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After stratospheric performances in Formula Renault 3.5, GP2 and Super Formula, Stoffel Vandoorne has had two difficult seasons in Formula One driving for McLaren. But his switch to Formula E with HWA RACELAB could yet recover his battered and bruised reputation. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A driver with a successful pedigree […]
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BMW capped off an impressive week in Valencia by finishing the final session fastest as Alexander Sims set a 1:17:402 to end the 3-day test fastest. The British driver jumped to the top of the leaderboard in the last four miuntes as the track was drying in the closing stages after heavy rain hit the track […]
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Tom Dillmann is relishing his first full-time drive in Formula E, after he was announced as a NIO driver at the team’s launch event in London earlier this month. The Frenchman made his debut at his home E-Prix in Paris during Season 3, and impressed immediately, finishing eighth for Venturi. He went on to complete […]
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Jean-Eric Vergne and Andre Lotterer completed a Techeetah 1-2 on Valencia, as the first simulated race with the Gen2 cars occurred. There was a race demo that started the afternoon session which included the first trial of Formula E’s new attack mode that will feature for the first time during races in season five. After […]
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BMW driver Alexander Sims ended the first day of pre-season testing fastest in the series’ news Gen2 car at Valencia. The British driver who will make his FE debut in the upcoming campaign also topped the morning session at the Ricardo Tormo circuit with a time of 1m17.567s. But the BMW driver went even faster towards the […]
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Mahindra Racing has confirmed today that Jerome D’Ambrosio and Pascal Wehrlein will join the team for season five. D’Ambrosio has competed in every single Formula E race to date, all of which for the Dragon team, taking two wins (both inherited at the expense of a disqualification for Lucas Di Grassi), as well as seven podiums […]
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