Podcast: Will Mercedes teams run away with Formula E 2022?
Mercedes cars won both rounds at the 2022 season-opener in Diriyah, so The Race Formula E Podcast recruited a man who’s won a race in that car and is now trying to beat it for a rival
Jaguar’s sluggish Formula E start could prove costly
Jaguar headed into the 2021-22 Formula E season as one of the title favourites but a tardy opening weekend leaves it 45 points behind championship leaders Venturi. Sam Smith explains where it all went wrong
Why did Giovinazzi’s Formula E debut look so bad?
Formula 1 convert Antonio Giovinazzi spent much of his first Formula E weekend in last place. Sam Smith looks at how to judge the Dragon driver’s performance and gets Giovinazzi’s take
How Mercedes EQ’s Formula E weekend imploded
Friday: the works Mercedes team begins its last Formula E season with an imperious 1-2. Saturday: Its polesitter is bundled down to 10th and its other car only qualifies 12th. What went wrong?
Winners and losers from Diriyah Formula E 2022
Hugely varied fortunes for the two teams that had been pre-season favourites, some positive surprises and a career low for a past champion – here is Sam Smith’s pick of the stars and flops from Formula E’s 2022 season-opener
Crane on track incidents alarm Formula E drivers
“There are people who crashed into each other because nobody told us that there was a crane on track” – Sam Smith got enraged drivers’ views and the race director’s apology after concerning recovery vehicle incidents in Formula E’s Diriyah opener
Formula E’s contentious safety car finish explained
A month after Formula 1’s controversy around a race that didn’t finish behind the safety car, Formula E’s facing questions over one that did. Sam Smith got the FIA’s take on the anti-climax in Diriyah
Mortara wins as Venturi upstages Formula E’s works Mercedes
Edoardo Mortara claimed victory in the second Diriyah Formula E race as defending champion Nyck de Vries was unceremoniously shuffled from pole to 10th
De Vries continues Mercedes’ perfect Formula E start with pole
Mercedes’ Nyck de Vries will start the final race of Formula E’s Diriyah E-Prix season-opener from pole position after edging the customer Venturi-Mercedes of Edoardo Mortara by just 0.005 seconds
The dark horse to stop Mercedes’ Formula E opener domination
Mercedes walked away with a crushingly dominant one-two finish in Formula E’s 2022 season-opener. But its customer Venturi team is keen to ensure Mercedes can’t repeat that on Saturday in Diriyah
