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Kiro gets new investors; IndyCar shuffles admin; JOTA sets crews
Kiro Race Co gets new investors in Formula E, as IndyCar names new series boss and JOTA Cadillac firms its two crews for WEC run. Kiro Race Co – Kiro Race Co (“KIRO”), the newest team competing in the FIA Formula E World Championship as CUPRA KIRO, is thrilled to announce expanded ownership with a…
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JOTA Hertz names 2025 WEC line-up to start Cadillac journey
JOTA Hertz has revealed its line-up for 2025 FIA WEC campaign, as it starts its journey with Cadillac in Hypercar category. Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA has revealed the all-star line-up that will pilot its pair of V-Series.R Hypercars in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2025, as motorsport legends Jenson Button and Sébastien Buemi head…
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Formula E: Lynn wins Race 2 of London EPrix amid string of collisions
Mahindra’s Alex Lynn won Race 2 of Formula E London EPrix weekend from Mercedes’ Nyck de Vries and Jaguar’s Mitch Evans after a drama-filled race. Pole-sitter Stoffel Vandoore led the way in Race 2 of Formula E London EPrix in his Mercedes as the Top 10 settled in the same way they started. It was…
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Formula E: Dennis eased to win Race 1 in London from de Vries, Lynn
BMW Andretti’s Jake Dennis wins Race 1 of Formula E London EPrix weekend from Mercedes’ Nyck de Vries and Mahindra’s Alexander Lynn. Pole-sitter Alexander Lynn started the Race 1 of Formula E London EPrix well to lead the race, but teammate Alexander Sims did not have similar situation. The chaos in the pack caught him…
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Video: Formula E shares how Lynn collided with Evans in heavy shunt
Formula E has shared first official footage of how Alex Lynn collided with Mitch Evans in Race 2 of the Saudi Arabia weekend. The incident took place in the dying stages of Race 2 of Saudi Arabia Formula E weekend, in the same corner where another crash happened at the same time. The first accident…
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Formula E: Bird wins red-flagged Race 2 in Saudi Arabia from Frijns
Jaguar’s Sam Bird was victorious in Race 2 of Saudi Arabia Formula E weekend after the race was red-flagged due to late incident. Pole-sitter Robin Frijns led the way in his Envision Virgin car to start Race 2 of Saudi Arabia Formula E weekend as Jaguar’s Sam Bird make quick work of Dragon’s Sergio Sette…
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Lynn joins Mahindra as livery for 2020/21 Formula E season is revealed
Alex Lynn has been named as the second FIA Formula E Championship driver for Mahindra Racing as the team reveals its 2020/21 livery. Having already announced Alexander Sims as its first confirmed Formula E driver for 2020/21 season, Mahindra has now revealed Lynn as his teammate, with the British racer continuing on with the Indian…
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Mahindra signs Lynn as Wehrlein’s replacement for 2019/20 Formula E
Mahindra Racing has announced the signing of Alex Lynn as the replacement for Pascal Wehrlein for the remainder of the 2019/20 FIA Formula E Championship. Wehrlein surprised everyone after the Formula E Race at Home Challenge, when he announced that he is ending his ties with Mahindra with immediate effect. Having only joined the team…
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Formula E: Buemi claims pole for Saturday’s New York EPrix, Vergne 10th
Nissan e.Dams’ Sebastien Buemi secured FIA Formula E Championship pole for Saturday’s New York ePrix ahead of Mahindra Racing’s Pascal Wehrlein. Group 1 The first part of New York Formula E qualifying for Saturday’s race has Audi’s Lucas di Grassi, Jagur Racing’s Mitch Evans, DS Techeetah’s Jean-Eric Vergne, BMW Andretti’s Antonio Felix da Costa and…
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Piquet leaves Jaguar as Lynn joins in for rest of 2018/19 Formula E season
Nelson Piquet Jr and Jaguar Racing have decided to end their relationship for the remainder of the 2018/19 FIA Formula E Championship season. Having won the inaugural Formula E title with China Racing, Piquet moved to NEXTEV in 2015/16 season where he raced for two seasons after which he joined Jaguar Racing alongside Mitch Evans…
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Lucas di Grassi takes first Audi Formula E pole position
Before today’s Formula E qualifying session, Sébastien Buemi (Renault e.dams) had been the fastest driver during the first free practice session, with Lucas di Grassi taking his spot on the second free practice session with a provisional record of 1:14.536. It was a sign of the things to come, as the Brazilian would score a much…
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Bird and Vergne lead free practices in Santiago
Formula E is already in Santiago. On a first contact with a bumpy and fast track, Sam Bird has taken the best time of the first session, which ended earlier than scheduled due to an accident for Maro Engel. FP2 ended the same way, with Nico Prost hitting the wall with two minutes to go…
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Formula E Marrakech preview: Looking for consolidation
The second round of 2017-18 FIA Formula E season is to be held this Saturday. For the second time on its history, the electric series visits the African continent, where teams and drivers, with some new faces among them, will try to equal or improve what they achieved in Hong Kong to settle themselves as…
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Lynn joins Bird for full-time drive at DS Virgin
New York City ePrix pole man Alex Lynn has been signed on a multi-year deal alongside Sam Bird to contest Season 4 of the FIA Formula E Championship for DS Virgin Racing. The 23-year-old was appointed the team’s official reserve driver earlier this year but will step up to a full-time race seat when the all-electric…
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Pole on debuts for Alex Lynn
Alex Lynn scored his first pole position in Formula E in New York ahead of Daniel Abt and Jean-Eric Vergne. Alex Lynn (DS Virgin) scored pole position for his first entry in Formula E with DS Virgin in New York. He was 2 tenths ahead of Daniel Abt (Abt Schaeffler) and Jean-Eric Vergne (Techeetah), the…
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Kobayashi smashes Le Mans lap record
Toyota Gazoo Racing today gave the firmest of signals to its competitors of its desire to conquer the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Japanese team, and two of its Japanese drivers, secured the front row of the grid for this weekend’s third round of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship race, and smashed the…
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Toyota takes 1-2 at Spa
A thrilling finale to the 6 Hours of Spa played out this evening as Toyota claimed its first 1-2 finish since the 6 Hours of Shanghai in 2014. Sébastien Buemi held off Kamui Kobayashi in the final stage amid light rain on the legendary 7km Spa-Francorchamps circuit to win by just 1.992s in a grandstand…
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Alex Lynn joins DS Virgin as development driver
After spending pre-season testing with Jaguar, British driver Alex Lyn joins DS Virgin as their development driver. Alex Lynn had spent a few successful years in single-seaters, joining the Red Bull junior team, winning the Macau Grand Prix and the 2014 GP3 Series championship. He joined Williams in 2015 but after disappointing GP2 seasons, he…
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Silly season : tops and flops
Since January 16th and the simultaneal announcements of Sauber, Williams and Mercedes, almost the whole 2017 Formula One field is officialised except for Manor whose presence in the world championship for the upcoming season is compromised. After a silly season full of surprises, it is now time to see who gains the most of silly…
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Gasly is crowned GP2 Champion as Lynn wins in Abu Dhabi
Alex Lynn won the sprint race in Abu Dhabi after dominating from pole. Johnny Cecotto and Sergey Sirotkin completed the podium in a race which has crowned Pierre Gasly as the new GP2 Champion. Lynn kept his pole position and was 1st after the first corner, followed by Sirotkin, Cecotto, Nato and Matsushita. Giovinazzi had…
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Gasly leads the way in Abu Dhabi
Pierre Gasly got his Abu Dhabi weekend started to plan after topping the timesheets in this morning’s Free Practice session in the emirate, grabbing P1 late in a busy session ahead of former teammate Alex Lynn and title rival Antonio Giovinazzi. The Red Bull tester stopped the clocks at 1:50.940 late in an exciting session…
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Porsche on pole for 6h of Shanghai in tense session
In bright sunshine and rising track temperatures, a tense qualifying session took place following a slight delay due to barrier repairs following an incident in a support race. Several leading cars had lap times deleted due to infringement of track limits during the session which meant double stints for a number of drivers. Hartley and…
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Seven GP2 drivers penalised at Spa
Following the sprint race of the GP2 Series at Spa-Francorchamps, seven drivers were found guilty of using their DRS on the first lap, and therefore received a ten second penalty added to their race time. The penalised drives are : Sergey Sirotkin, Jordan King, Arthur Pic, Daniël De Jong, Nabil Jeffri and Jimmy Eriksson. King…
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Gasly ensures championship lead by winning in Spa
Pierre Gasly is now leader in points in GP2 Championship after winning feature race while Sergey Sirotkin, former leader, was P9. Jordan King and Alex Lynn accompany the Frenchman to Spa-Francorchamps podium. Yesterday Prema Powerteam set best times in qualifying and so both started from first row of the grid. It had to be a good day…
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Lynn takes dominant win
Alex Lynn takes victory at Hockenheim in dramatic sprint race ahead of Sergey Sirotkin and Arthur Pic. Giovinazzi started on pole position ahead of Alex Lynn and Gustav Malja. Gasly started last while Markelov and De Jong started from the pitlane. The two drivers on the front row had a bad start, Lynn and Rowland…
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Gasly finding his feet at Hockenheim
Pierre Gasly was the fastest of the free practice of GP2 series at Hockenheim ahead of Artem Markelov and Alex Lynn. Oliver Rowland was the first to go out followed by DAMS of Lynn and Latifi for an outlap but the Rapax are the ones setting their first laptime. Giovinazzi, who told us he felt…
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Gasly leads in Hungarian Free-Practice
Pierre Gasly led the way in free-practice in Hungary half a second from Alex Lynn and Sergey Sirotkin. Most drivers went out for one first out lap before pitting again. Championship leader, Oliver Rowland showed some early pace in the session but Pierre Gasly set a first very fast flying lap in 1:28.047 before beating…
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King dominates rainy Race 2 at the Red Bull Ring
Jordan King dominated a difficult race with a wet track. Rowland finished 2nd and Lynn completed the podium after starting on 11th. The race started after the Safety Car due to the big amount of water on track. The SC left after 4 laps and Marciello quickly started gaining positions, climbing up to 4th behind…
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Sirotkin leads as Sainte Devote downs three drivers
Sergey Sirotkin leads the way in Monaco free-practice ahead of Norman Nato and Alex Lynn while Gasly, Matsushita and De Jong are taken down at Sainte Dévote. Let’s remind six drivers make their debuts at Monaco this year: Luca Ghiotto, Marvin Kichhofer, Antonio Giovinazzi, Nabil Jeffri, Jimmy Eriksson The first flying lap comes from Norman…
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Lynn dominates the second round in Barcelona
Victory for Alex Lynn in the second race of the weekend at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit ahead of Pierre Gasly and Jordan King. Marciello kept first place at the start, while Lynn went up to 2nd in a good battle with King which lasted for a few corners. Lynn had a great pace which allowed him…