When Formula E burst onto the racing scene at its first-ever race in 2014, people were skeptical that the series would actually survive. Electric cars weren’t quite in vogue yet, and people wondered who the hell would even be watching. Five years later, it turns out that a hell of a lot of people have […]
The new Formula E documentary, And We Go Green, made its world premiere on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was lucky enough to be in attendance to see its release—and it might just be the best racing documentary I’ve ever seen.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Audi have shown off their Formula E entry for the 6th season of the sport set to begin in November, and it has been given the clever name of FE06. The chassis are all built to the same spec, which is to say that Audi’s unveiling is limited to a new livery, but it’s a […]
Porsche will be joining Formula E for the 2019-2020 season, and I’m pretty sure everyone involved with the team is praying their results won’t be as much of a disaster as the reveal of the car itself.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Getting on board with a brand-new racing series, especially one marketed as “world class” from the very start, can be hard. There’s already so much racing out there to watch, and so many drivers out there to follow, that it might not seem worth it to devote the time and energy to learning something completely […]
Formula One is looking to make big changes for 2021, including proposing a lot more standardization in the rulebook regarding what parts teams can use and how much money can be spent. But is that additional degree of standardization too much?Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
One of the perks of a racing series with entirely electric cars is that they barely make a sound, letting anyone around hear exactly what’s happening on track—including every bit contact, and there’s been a lot of that in Formula E this year. But the series apparently wants to cool it down, and may do […]
The relative merits of a driver’s ability to unlap himself by fighting for position with the leader of a race has been a pretty hotly debated subject this week after IndyCar’s race at Mid-Ohio. And I need to know what the fans think.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
After netting a strong pole position in the final race of the season, and second of the New York City double-headers, BMW’s Alexander Sims got away from the start perfectly and settled into a contested but steady lead over race one winner Sebastian Buemi and later Virgin Racing’s Robin Frijns. Following a…Read more… Continue Reading […]
After netting a strong pole position in the final race of the season, and second of the New York City double-headers, BMW’s Alexander Sims got away from the start perfectly and settled into a contested but steady lead over race one winner Sebastian Buemi and later Virgin Racing’s Robin Frijns. Following a…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Sebastien Buemi managed to nab Nissan’s first Formula E victory of the year in the penultimate race of the 2018/19 season, Saturday’s first of a double header weekend on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Despite heavy pressure from Alex Lynn’s Jaguar for the first section of the race, and Alexander Sims’ BMW for the…Read […]
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend?Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The FIA, Formula E’s regulating body, is finally taking steps to better regulate racing teams suspected of using software curiously similar to traction control, which is against the rules and rather surprising given how tightly controlled the cars are. Apparently kindly asking the teams not to do it didn’t work. Read more… Continue Reading at […]
The FIA, Formula E’s regulating body, is finally taking steps to better regulate racing teams suspected of using software curiously similar to traction control, which is against the rules and rather surprising given how tightly controlled the cars are. Apparently kindly asking the teams not to do it didn’t work. Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Formula E boss Alejandro Agag is back with another all-electric racing series, this time running off-road events all over the world. It’s called Extreme E, and the plan is to run five races in five different types of off-road environment from 2021. This is the tube-frame, high-riding offroad buggy that the series will…Read more… Continue […]
If you’re like most people, you wake up most mornings and immediately check your Telex machine to see if there’s been any announcements that someone has finally built an open-wheeled formula race car that is powered by the motor from a washing machine. Most mornings end in bitter disappointment, with no washer-powered…Read more… Continue Reading […]
Way back in 2013 while attending the first WEC race at the Circuit of the Americas, a representative of Michelin asked me what I thought of the electric racing series that was set to debut the following year, called Formula E. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Formula E is surprisingly dedicated to creating the most incredible looking cars on track today—even when it comes to their safety car. Now, they’ve announced that they’re going to be implementing the BMW i8 Roadster<for the rest of the season, which crosses off some bucket list items for motorsport overall.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Formula E is surprisingly dedicated to creating the most incredible looking cars on track today—even when it comes to their safety car. Now, they’ve announced that they’re going to be implementing the BMW i8 Roadster<for the rest of the season, which crosses off some bucket list items for motorsport overall.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
If you listen closely, you might just hear it over the roar of the métro and the bustling weekend traffic. There it is again—the buzzing of a pack of restless bees, maybe, or the dying breath of a dog’s favorite squeaky toy. That sound you hear is the “thundering engines” of the notoriously loud Formula […]
