Reigning Formula E teams’ champion DS Techeetah will carry over its existing car into the upcoming 2020-21 season before introducing a new powertrain package in April. DS Techeetah, which has won both teams’ and drivers’ titles since the Gen2 FE car was brought in, revealed a revised livery during its online launch on Wednesday. It…
Mahindra has completed its driver line-up for the 2020/21 Formula E season after signing Alex Lynn alongside the previously-confirmed Alexander Sims.The announcement was made during an online presentation on Wednesday, in which Mahindra also unveiled its M7 Electro challenger for the seventh season of the all-electric championship. Ex-DS Virgin driver Lynn joined Mahindra for the…
Formula E will hold its first ever night races in Saudi Arabia for the 2021 Season. They will be using lighting systems powered by renewable energy. The third and fourth races of the 14-round 2020/21 calendar will take place on February 26-27 in Diriyah, and both will run in low-light conditions. A low-consumption LED set-up…
Daniel Ricciardo insists he’s “fired up” to help Renault put right its double DNF from last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit this weekend. Bahrain marks the start of the final run-in to the end of the 2020 season, with just three of the 17 races remaining. Renault was on course to secure…
Alvaro Bautista says Kawasaki has the luxury of being able to treat its World Superbike project with the same level of dedication that rival manufacturers commit to their MotoGP bikes.Honda rider Bautista made the remark during last week’s post-season test at Jerez, where Kawasaki unveiled the 2021 version of its ultra-successful ZX-10RR machine featuring radically…
Ryan Truex will be returning to Niece Motorsports for the 2021 NASCAR Truck Season but this time round he will be competing for the 2021 Camping World Truck Series championship. Ryan Truex, is the 28-year-old younger brother to former NASCAR Series champion Martin Truex Jr. Ryan ran nine races with Niece Motorsports in the 2020…
Roy Nissany will be back in action for Williams at the Bahrain Grand Prix, putting in the laps in FP1. The 25-year-old Israeli driver will replace George Russell in the weekend’s opening practice session. Nissany has already had two Friday practices with Williams, driving the FW42 in Spain and again in Italy. “Bahrain is a…
Lewis Hamilton is “better than Michael Schumacher”, this was according to the latter seven time world champion’s former Ferrari teammate. Rubens Barrichello was commenting on his former rivals after Mercedes’ Hamilton matched F1 legend Schumacher’s record seven-title tally recently in Turkey. “I have raced against both Lewis and Michael, but I only fought against Lewis…
Jack Miller has paid tribute to Pramac Racing for bringing out the best in him over the past three seasons and spurring him on to what will be a team leader factory Ducati Corse role in the 2021 MotoGP World Championship. The rider says it is down to Pramac Racing that he has flourished from…
A premiere for the iconic BMW M Award: in the 2020 season, Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Petronas Yamaha SRT) was the fastest qualifier in MotoGP™, which saw him added to the list of winners of the BMW M Award for the first time. His reward for his performances is the winner’s car for 2020: the new…
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has dismissed suggestions that the 2022 Formula 1 regulations are designed to stop Mercedes from dominating and says they “need to make racing more exciting”. In 2022, F1 moves to all-new technical regulations with cars designed to improve the show through a reduction of downforce. The shift from downforce primarily…
Renault has fallen a long way behind in Turkey in the battle for third place and now even has to look back, because Ferrari is very close. According to Esteban Ocon, however, the team does not need to worry. The 2020 Formula 1 season is particularly exciting behind Mercedes and Red Bull Racing. There McLaren,…
Despite the global pandemic that has impacted the lives of so many this year, Red Bull co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz will likely look back on 2020 as a banner year, at least in terms of his personal finances, thanks to a €343m windfall. The Austrian billionaire and co-founder of the energy drink company is among the…
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi will return to the Gulf 12 Hours in Bahrain in January with his Avintia-bound half-brother Luca Marini joining him in a Ferrari 488 GT3.Rossi contested the 12-hour event at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi last year in a Kessel Racing-run 488 Ferrari partnered by Marini and his long-time friend…
John Hunter Nemechek will join Kyle Busch Motorsports for the 2021 NASCAR Truck Series season. Nemechek, who just completed his rookie Cup Series season with Front Row Motorsports, will move back to the Truck Series in 2021. He will compete for the title with KBM, driving the No. 4 Toyota Tundra. The 23-year-old revealed last…
When Matt Tifft was forced to cut short his NASCAR driving career due to health issues that didn’t mean he wanted out of the sport. In fact, it was just the opposite. Tifft began searching for options to make NASCAR a long-term home even if it involved something other than driving race cars. Last October,…
