Sam Smith

Formula E

Pressure is on Formula E to follow F1's USA lead

Formula E's USA race will be a stop-gap solution at a permanent circuit for the second year running - but options to expand its footprint stateside are growing

Formula E

Formula E's five main challenges in 2024

Formula E's immediate 2024 priority is to get the delayed introduction of its fast-charging pitstops right. But there are bigger questions looming too

Formula E

Five big Formula E might-have-beens revealed

Huge driver deals that fell through - or were prevented. David Beckham as a team co-owner! Sam Smith reveals some tantalising Formula E possibilities that never quite came to fruition

Formula E

Hyderabad E-Prix set to drop off 2024 Formula E calendar

The second Hyderabad E-Prix will not take place as planned in February 2024 after recent elections threw the Formula E event into disarray just six weeks before it was scheduled to take place

Single Seater/Open Wheel

Motorsport's forgotten talent who survived war, kidnap and Senna

Ayrton Senna and Tommy Byrne: two significant names on the 1980s motorsport scene. Few ran either closer than Enrique Mansilla. A metaphorical feud with one of them, and two actual wars, are just part of Mansilla's story - one he recalls to Sam Smith

Formula E

A snapshot from the wildest Formula E silly season yet

As The Race reflects on the 2023 motorsport season, we’ve asked our writers to recount their standout motorsport memory or feeling from the past 12 months. The Formula E silly season was nothing short of sensational in 2023 but one development stands out in particular to Sam Smith

Formula 1

Another low-profile F1 documentary you shouldn't ignore

Even to those who know Martin Donnelly’s story well, its brutal conclusion never fails to shock - not least in a brand-new F1TV documentary. Sam Smith explains more

Formula E

The F1-spec upgrade that might end Jaguar's Formula E title wait

Jaguar is approaching its eighth season of Formula E competition yet remains without a drivers' or teams' title (despite recent near-misses). Is its off-season, F1-spec addition the upgrade that will allow it to take that final step?

Formula E

More than meets the eye to Formula E champion's big new deal

Formula E's new champion re-committing to the team that took him to the title is more revealing than it may seem at first glance

Formula E

DS Penske recruitment drive includes statement ex-Jaguar hire

DS Penske has undertaken a major recruitment push ahead of the 2024 Formula E season that includes poaching a senior Jaguar figure, widely recognised as one of the series' best technical leads, as well as Pascal Wehrlein's Porsche race engineer

Formula E

Bridgestone gets Formula E deal after F1 snub

Bridgestone is set to supply the fourth generation of Formula E tyres and make a return to world championship single seater competition for the first time since its final year supplying Formula 1 in 2010

Formula E

Why Formula E scrapped plans for a 2024 driver salary cap

There has been some strong support for some form of salary cap in Formula E for the last few years but plans to introduce it for 2024 were recently scrapped. Sam Smith explains why

Formula E

The very unlikely reunion aiming for a 2024 title

Robin Frijns and Envision didn't look like a partnership that would ever be revived when they parted in 2022. So why are they back together already?

Formula E

Surprise new battery provider expected for Formula E's Gen4 era

A company best known for MotoE and a WEC hypercar underdog has emerged as the overwhelming favourite to land the Gen4 Formula E battery contract

Formula E

Formula E's plan for much faster laptimes begins with secret test

Formula E is working to make the 'evo' version of its Gen3 notably quicker, and the outcome of a major test last week suggests it's on course to do so

Formula E

Formula E test fire investigation outcome revealed

Safety changes are on the way from Formula E's battery provider after a scary fire halted the Valencia test last month

Formula E

MotoGP venue wins race for Formula E 2024 calendar slot

Misano has finally emerged as Formula E's new Italian venue for 2024, agreeing a deal to replace the popular Rome street circuit

Formula E

McLaren's surprise star rookie's career anxiety is finally over

After years of seat-hopping and disappointment, Jake Hughes has job security at the McLaren Formula E team after his impressive rookie season. And that's transformative for him

Formula E

What's behind Formula E's second 2024 silly season

Formula E has only just got over a hectic off-season for driver market movements and now senior team figures are at it. Sam Smith ponders where the headline player in that might (and might not) be going and looks at some of the other staff on the move

Formula E

Classic Italian track is Formula E's latest 2024 calendar surprise

It might be Vallelunga - not Misano or Imola - that replaces Rome as Formula E's Italian circuit for 2024. While it's a great track, that's quite a curveball

Formula E

Senior figure leaves Jaguar and could switch to Formula E rival

Jaguar will be without its talismanic technical leader Phil Charles as it prepares for its most important Formula E season to date

Formula E

A top Formula E team must find a second 2024 driver pairing

The reigning Formula E teams' champion Envision will lose both its drivers to a date clash at the first Berlin race, unless calendar updates rescue it

Formula E

What is Formula G? Heidfeld and Gill's new series relaunches

The new electric single-seater championship being created by former Mahindra Formula E team boss Dilbagh Gill and Formula 1 and FE podium-finisher Nick Heidfeld has been rebranded from its original ACE Championship name to Formula G

Formula E

Mercedes could return to Formula E in surprise tie-in

Formula E could feature some Mercedes involvement again in time for the 2025 season, via the manufacturer's engine division

Formula E

How and what now: Inside Formula E's worst-nightmare 2024 start

A truly harrowing episode kicked off Formula E's second Gen3 season. Our FE reporter Sam Smith on what is already known about the Valencia pit fire, and what's still being investigated

Formula E

Formula E seeking new UK TV host after Channel 4 deal ends

Channel 4 will not show Formula E races in 2024 after the deal between the British terrestrial broadcaster and the world championship recently ended

Formula E

Fire ends first day of 2024 Formula E pre-season testing early

The first day of Formula E’s 2024 pre-season test has been prematurely ended by a fire in the paddock at Valencia, believed to be caused by one of the Gen3 car batteries igniting

Formula E

Five things to watch in Formula E's 2024 pre-season test

Formula E's silly season appears, just in time, to have come a halt ahead of the crucial Valencia winter test. Sam Smith is your guide to the key themes to keep an eye on this week

Formula E

Why Formula E's oldest driver has refused a logical off-ramp

With his third team swap in three years Lucas di Grassi has made one last roll of the dice in Formula E before he inevitably makes a huge impact off-track. Can he achieve more success on track before then - or is his career doomed to peter out back at Abt?

Formula E

Formula E is losing its street racing DNA

Just like that, the Rome E-Prix is off the Formula E calendar. While the series' claim - that the decision was safety-motivated - stands up, digging a little deeper Sam Smith can't help but wonder if other factors are at play - ones that take Formula E further away from its DNA

Formula E

NIO name disappears from Formula E for 2024

The NIO name will disappear from Formula E and the team will adopt the ERT Formula E Team banner for 2024 after confirming new investors

Formula E

Three events dropped as China added to 2024 Formula E calendar

Formula E will head to Formula 1's Chinese Grand Prix venue in Shanghai in 2024 but three other rounds - including the Rome E-Prix - have been dropped for next year

Formula E

Eight suggestions to fill Formula E's shock team boss vacancy

James Rossiter's sudden exit as Maserati Formula E team boss leaves no favourite to replace him - but some very intriguing options

Formula E

Formula E's new superteam will test a friendship to its limit

Friends forming team-mate partnerships in racing can go one of two ways. Which way will Jaguar's Formula E superteam of Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy go in 2024?

Formula E

Formula E teams must run rookies at pre-season test

A mandatory rookie running element has been added to Formula E's official 2024 pre-season test at Valencia next week - and some intriguing names are already lined up for it

Formula E

Shock pre-season exit for Maserati Formula E team boss Rossiter

Maserati MSG team boss James Rossiter is understood to have split with the team just over a week before Formula E's 2024 pre-season test

Formula E

The latest developments in Formula E's pitstop revival

Formula E's delayed plans for 'attack charge' pitstops are part of the series' amended sporting regulations released this week - but likely only at select races. Here's the latest

Formula E

Formula E's urgent bid to escape its personality crisis era

Formula E's plan to raise its profile and attract a bigger audience, not to mention an even larger media partner, is a necessity. That's at the forefront of its new CEO's ambitions, anyway, as the series looks to back up what at times has been overstatement with tangible growth

Formula E

What an early delay to Formula E's Gen4 process really means

Formula E and the FIA have delayed the tender process for the Gen4 ruleset in order to further evaluate prospective suppliers' proposals for the championship's next era

Formula E

Ex-F1 US GP city host eyeing Formula E race

Arizona capital Phoenix could host a street race 34 years on from hosting its last Formula 1 grand prix.