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Prost to leave Renault/Nissan after 2017/18 Formula E season
Renault e.dams’ announced that Nicolas Prost will leave the team at the end of the 2017/18 FIA Formula E Championship season, thereby ending a four-year association between the two since the inaugural all-electric series season. The French outfit has fielded Prost and Sebastien Buemi since the first year and had earlier announced a contract extension…
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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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Renault e.damd presents its new livery
The representatives of the Renault e.dams team, co-owners Alain Prost and Jean-Paul Driot, Jérôme Stoll and Cyril Abiteboul, respectively President and Managing Director of Renault Sport Racing, as well as Gilles Normand, Director of Renault Electric Vehicles and drivers Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Prost came together to celebrate the Team’s Title won in Season 3,…
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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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Renault e.dams continues with Buemi & Prost until 2019
Renault e.dams has won 14 races with this outstanding duo. Furthermore, they have achieved two consecutive Teams’ titles and the Drivers’ crown with Sébastien Buemi in 2016. In the current standings, Renault e.dams lead the Teams’ championship by 75 points thanks to obtaining five superb wins from six races. Sébastien Buemi remains in a commanding…
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Rebellion changes to LMP2 with Senna
Rebellion Racing has announced that the team will enter two ORECA 07 Gibson LMP2 cars in the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship (*subject to admission by the Selection Committee), and also confirmedfour of their six drivers for the campaign. Nicolas Prost, Mathias Beche and Nelson Piquet Jr will be returning to the Swiss team in…
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Di Grassi fastest in FP1
Lucas Di Grassi was the fastest in the first free-practice session of Formula E in Marrakesh ahead of both Renault e.dams cars of Nicolas Prost and Sebastien Buemi. It is the first venue of Formula E in Africa linked with the Cop22 in Marrakech, Morocco. The track is slightly different from all the other Formula…
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Vergne leads second practice at Hong Kong
Jean-Eric Vergne was the fastest in the last practice session of the FIA ??Formula E in the opening round of the 2016-17 season at Hong Kong. Nicolas Prost finished second, followed by Sam Bird. In the last session before the classification, the drivers were testing the pace for the qualifying doing laps in the maximum power.…
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Buemi takes the championship after crashes, Prost wins again
Sébastien Buemi is the new FIA Formula E champion. The Swiss driver suffered a lot and had to take the championship thanks to fastest lap. Prost won the race in front of Daniel Abt and Jerome d’Ambrossio. The final race, the grand finale of Season 2 (2015-2016) at Battersea Park in London. Two championship contenders,…
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Buemi on pole for the last ePrix of the season
Sébastien Buemi has taken the pole position for the last ePrix of the season at Battersea Park, London. The Swiss was one second faster than his rival Lucas di Grassi (third) and they equally on point. Prost will start between the championship contenders. In the first group Nicolas Prost (Renault e.Dams) get the acces to…
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Prost gets back to victory at Formula E race 1 in London
Nicolas Prost had an easy race and dominate the whole race to take his first victory of the season. Bruno Senna finished second as Jean-Eric Vergne finished third. Di Grassi finished in front of Buemi and increased the gap to three points. At the Start, Prost maintained the first place in front of Senna, Turvey…
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Prost takes the pole in crazy conditions at Battersea
Nicolas Prost took the pole position for today’s FIA Formula E race at Battersea Park, London. The Frenchman took an advantage of being in group one, avoiding the rain. Senna will start alongside the Renault e.Dams driver as local Turvey completes the top3. Rain, chaos, and crashes. That’s how we can define today’s qualifying session…
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Jérôme d’Ambrosio sets his second Formula E pole position in Mexico
Belgian driver Jérôme d’Ambrosio has been the fastest in qualifying ahead of Nicolas Prost and Lucas Di Grassi while Sébastien Buemi made a mistake in his Superpole lap. The first group consists of Sarrazin, Duval, Heidfeld and Vergne. With the length of the track, it is difficult to generate more than one full power lap.…
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Maiden pole position for Bird in Formula E
Sam Bird has taken his maiden pole position in FIA Formula E. The Briton was the fastest in the superPole shootout, finishing in front of Prost and Da Costa. Buemi due to a mistake will start last, as his rival Di Grassi starts from 7th place. Everything is possible for today’s race in Buenos Aires…
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Buemi and Di Grassi leading the field
The two leaders of the championship, Sebastien Buemi and Lucas Di Grassi, show the way to the field for FP2. The session starts with 17 drivers on track and only three minutes after the start, Lucas Di Grassi hits the wall after a spin, causing the first yellow flag of the session. He eventually brings…
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Prost leading the field in FP2
After Buemi this morning, another eDams leads the way through FP2 as Nicolas Prost sets the fastest time in Punta Del Este with a 1:15:4. Session starts quietly as Jérôme D’Ambrosio is the first to get on track and set a reference time in 1:18. Just five minutes in the session, morning leader Buemi…
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Buemi confirms expectations and set the pole for Beijing ePrix
Sébastien Buemi gets the first pole position for 2015-2016 FIA Formula E season at Beijing ePrix. The Swiss driver led a Renault e.dams one-two with Nico Prost second, as Nick Heidfeld completes top3. This weekend started with the very bad news from Trulli Raicng who had customs problems and had to announce his non-contest to…
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Renault e.dams retain Prost and Buemi
Renault e.dams have today confirmed that it will retain Nicolas Prost and Sebastien Buemi for next season, the same driver line-up that clinched the inaugural teams’ title. The pair have both been behind the wheel of the Renault Z.E.15 throughout pre-season testing at Donington Park and will hope for a repeat performance of last season…
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Prost powers to the top of the times
Renault e.Dams have bookended testing in terms of lap times, thanks to Nico Prost’s 1:30.513 in the dry morning session. Prost’s time isn’t the quickest that we’ve seen over the last 3 weeks here at Donington, but a typically British downpour mid-afternoon prevented any improvements. Venturi put in the most number of laps as a…
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Abt set record lap at Donington Day 3
Daniel Abt set the fastest time of the opening day of the second collective Formula E test at Donington today. The 1:30.250 Abt set ended up 0.771 seconds quicker than Nicolas Prost. (team/driver) put the highest number of laps on the board: V in total. While it was a good day for Abt, the same…
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Formula E 2014-2015 season analysis
This was the first season of Formule E, a unique and innovative project. The FORMULARAPIDA.NET director, Arnau Viñals, brings you the analysis of a very exciting season with young and experienced drivers, most of them of great quality, in a competition with electric cars. Piquet wins thanks to saving Nelson Piquet Jr didn’t have a…
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Vergne quickest in second practice
Jean-Eric Vergne set the fastest time in the second qualifying session for Saturday’s Visa London ePrix ahead of championship leader Nelson Piquet Jr and e.dams-Renault driver Nicolas Prost. The Andretti driver moved to the top of the timesheets with a few minutes of the session remaining as the drivers turned up the power for…
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Who will win Formula E championship?
The last round of the electric championship has double race, and therefore a total of 60 possible points remaining. This means that apart from the three drivers who seem stronger in the fight for the title, Piquet Jr, di Grassi and Buemi; rost, De Ambrosio and Sam Bird must also be mentioned. Sam Bird…
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Prost and Senna lead the free practices
It seems to be a holder of yesteryear but the successors of so mythical drivers have been the leaders both FP1 and FP2 Monte Carlo is the chosen to host the fifth round of the Formula E championship. Technology and modernity of the cars is faced with a mythical and historical circuit as is the circuit of…
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Buemi takes the pole in Long Beach
Sébastien Buemi took his second pole position in FIA Formula E, the fourth for his team e.dams Renault, during the qualifying in the streets of Long Beach, California, USA. The Swiss driver will start in front of Daniel Abt and the championship leader, Nicolas Prost. The first qualifying group was integrated by: Hedifeld, Alguersuari, Pic, Speed…
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Di Grassi dominates the practice in Long Beach
Lucas di Grassi has dominate two of three practice sessions of FIA Formula E in the streets of Long Beach, California, USA. The Audi Sport Abt driver show his options to battle for the pole position, being so fast for one lap. Non-Qualifying Practice 1 The first practice session of 25 minutes has started with…
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Formula E Preview: Long Beach, a critical moment for the championship
The sixth round of FIA Formula E arrives in the streets of Long Beach, USA. Prost managed to be the new championship leader in front of Di Grassi, Bird and Piquet who will have to react at this important race. After 5 rounds of Formula E in any round apart of this, the FIA Formula…
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Prost wins his first e-Prix
Nicolas Prost won the Miami ePrix after a good race. Vergne, who had the pole, has abandoned, while Speed and Daniel Abt completed the podium. Nicolas Prost took the opportunity. After leading the first ePrix in Beijing and losing the race at the last corner, the French took the opportunity and after a…
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Vergne gets the pole in Miami
Jean-Éric Vergne will be the driver who occupy the top position of the grid of the Miami ePrix this afternoon. Nelson Piquet will accompany him in the row in front of Prost and Bird. Vergne has got the second pole position of his participation in the championship of Formula E. The Frenchman has been the only lower…
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Full Grid for 2015 WEC season
In Paris today the ACO revealed an incredible 35 entries for the forthcoming FIA World Endurance Championship season which begins at Silverstone on the 12 April. The large grid includes 21 LMP entries, with 11 LMP1 and 10 LMP2 cars entered for the full season. The LMGTE entry is evenly split with 7 cars in…