Formula E cars are set to feature power assisted steering for Gen4, partly to help and promote more female drivers in to the championship. What do you think of this likely move?
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There are 101 things Formula E should be doing in this ridiculous 7 week break. This isn’t one of them. Ironically, this is a cheap PR stunt but if we were racing this wouldn’t have needed to be dreamt up at all today. Bit of fun? Nah, it’s just boring and a bit lazy.
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Formula E has submitted its 24/25 calendar to FIA. What we know is pre-season testing will be at Valencia in early November, likely with a mandatory one car per team female test. What would you like to see after that? December start? Race in Thailand? Homestead?
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Da Costa has received a 5-second penalty for the contact with Cassidy which led to a puncture for the championship protagonist. Drops him out of the points and also means that Porsche lose the manufacturers title to Jaguar.
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Crazy day at the office! First & foremost its great nobody was significantly injured. Secondly, important to note after 9 years of racing this is first time such a serious incident has occurred. Yes,12-volt battery incidents at Long Beach & Montreal but first ever RESS fire.
Rare photo of post Heidfeld/Prost incident at Beijing in ‘14. What a lot of people don’t know is that the rescue truck dropped it while winching & inflicted more damage! 😜New documentary details this & other early FE will be released soon featuring FEN’s Sam Smith
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We’re going to have another week of major
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news, mostly good! That’s even before the action hits the track on Saturday morning. We are heading to the track on Thursday and will have three Notebooks for you on Thursday, Friday and Sunday/Monday 💪🏽🙌🏼
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Prema F3 driver Gabriele Mini will
join Caio Collet at Nissan for the rookie test in Berlin next week. More drivers being announced today and tomorrow
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Look who’s back! Andre Lotterer will join David Beckmann as a reserve driver for Porsche next year. Lotterer’s priority will again be his WEC programme in the No.6 Porsche Penske 963 Hypercar
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DS Penske has tested its Gen3Evo car extensively at Mallorca this week with Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne both getting laps. Big month coming up for DS Penske as its future starts to form more.
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Shanghai is set to be Formula E’s most extreme energy saving race yet! 😳First 15 laps will be a parade then max bedlam. Saturday race 29laps and Sunday 28laps. Attack Mode will be outside line at T1/T2 right hander and will be perhaps least time loss of the season.
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First news of 2024! Attack charge will definitely not be used in the Mexico City EPrix. It will be tested in free practice though. Possible implementation in Diriyah or Misano for one of those double-headers.
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The suppliers for the Gen4 era of
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are about to be announced. We think Podium Advanced Technologies will provide the batteries. Spark the chassis again. But what about tyres? Another four years for Hankook? Will be communicated very soon
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As it stands there will be at least one clash between Formula E and WEC next season. 🫣 That is bad news for at least a third of the grid! Knock on of that will definitely inform the driver market. Stay tuned for more on this!
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The usable energy given for Misano this weekend is 38.5kWh. That is going to make for extreme high energy saves, particularly in Saturday's race which is 28 laps long. The nature of this track will likely make for a fairly insane race that no one will want to lead.
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Sam Bird’s win in São Paulo was the first non-Jaguar or Porsche victory for nine months (Guenther at Jakarta). Who else do you think could follow that trend soon?
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Hopefully Robin Frijns is able to race tomorrow after being checked out at hospital. Should he not be able to then Jaguar supplied reserve Joel Eriksson is on site and could deputise if needed
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Unfortunately Jake Hughes will have to have a survival cell change overnight after that accident in FP1. Long night for the NEOM McLaren folks 😬
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Some details on Misano for you. The races will both start at 15.00CET and run to 28 laps on Saturday and 26 laps on Sunday. The extra free practice for rookies will be at 14.30 on Friday. No shakedown.
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The ProSieben broadcaster in Germany will not continue its deal to show live Formula E races next season. A significant blow as more free to air coverage is lost after Channel 4 made a similar decision recently.
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(1/2) Formula E executives will visit the Chiang Mai area of Thailand this month to study the feasibility of holding an EPrix for the first time in the country, possibly as early as 2026.
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Formula E will begin its 10th season soon. This is the first run of the very first car in a French car park in 2014. Bertrand Baguette is the driver. Nissan’s new chief engineer Theo Gouzain on left. An historic moment captured in a previously never seen photo!
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Here’s Sam Bird at New York (which he won!) in 2021 after I’d just told him that Luke Shaw had put England 1-0 up against Italy in the Euros final.
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Practising of the Attack Charge will resume in São Paulo next month. The decision comes after technical problems in Mexico City. Diriyah testing was ceased because of these. SP & possible Tokyo testing will be crucial in decision making for possible Misano debut of AC.
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The criteria for running rookie drivers for the remainder of the Valencia test has been withdrawn. Meeting currently ongoing about whether teams can run tomorrow. Decision expected this evening.
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Lola returning to top-line international motorsport is one of the great feelgood stories of recent years. 12 years after it looked to be all over for the legendary constructor.....Lola is back! Much more on this story later this week
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Final result still not available from Shanghai. Our sources suggest the delay is in relation to a possible re-investigation in to Rowland/Vergne incident which was initially cleared
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There’s a hell of lot that’s been going on in
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these last few weeks. Get the intell on what the news agenda is with our pre-event Notebook tomorrow morning at 8am UK time 👀 🇨🇳
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We've just spoken to Oliver Rowland who completed two days testing at Calafat last week and is 100% ready to go for his home EPrixs this weekend! 🇬🇧👊
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Don’t be surprised if there is a May date for the second Tokyo Eprix next season. Likely to be part of a three date Asian leg around May/June.
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We’ve got tonnes of news coming at 10am UK time from the world of Formula E. Guaranteed substance over hype and not a loose manhole cover in sight 😉
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The season is over! But we're open for readers questions. What do you want to know? The story behind the story? Or the story that's behind that stories story? Fire away and we promise to answer before the end of this Friday! 😃
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Throwback to Battersea Park in 2015 and a rambling animatronic polar bear goes walkabout in the pitlane. This was fairly normal behaviour for early days Formula E!
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Who’s looking forward to the 2024-25 Formula E schedule? December start in São Paulo? New venues? Bumper Monaco? Italy on or off? Summer in Berlin? Final London races? What’s your predictions?
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Two 'races' with attack charge pit stops will take place at VAL this Wednesday. A single charger being allocated to each team. This means they will be shared & allocated via 2023 finishing positions. The ‘odd’ placed finishing drivers get charger in AM ‘race’ & ‘even’ in PM!
Oliver Rowland is the winner of the Misano EPrix today after Da Costa has been disqualified for a technical infringement relating to a spec part - throttle damper spring. FEN understands that Porsche is considering an appeal. But as it stands DAC has been thrown out.
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The Attack Charge pit lane boxes that were featured in Mexico are vacant from the
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Just a visual test in Mexico, or is this a possible sign of delays?
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understands there was another Attack Charge test planned for this weekend but it has been cancelled.
London EPrixs will run to 27kW/h of useable energy. Same as 2023 but there will be a greater re-gen co-efficient this time. Will make Saturday's longer race more interesting in having to save energy. Won't be like Berlin,Misano or Portland but more strategy scope than last season
Cool stripey tyres via
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and attack charge branding, although this will only be used in Shakedown, FP1 and FP2 this weekend.
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James Barclay confirmed to FEN tonight that Jaguar may activate a right to review process over Evans penalty. A traditional appeal which is not available due to the fact that the decision was made within the framework of the race itself.
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This afternoons session is limited to 300kW running as a precaution. Friday running time will be 8h30 to 18h30 and with no interruption. No extra running is scheduled for Saturday
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There was a huge rainstorm that hit the track this evening. Formula E Notebook had just left the area but has seen images of flooded pit boxes. Hopefully not too much damage but a lot of water on the pit straight and pits area!
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Thoughts on Hughes leaving McLaren. He obviously felt he deserved more in terms of remuneration after two seasons that yielded 4 poles and a podium. He beat Rast in 23 & was level with Bird this year. You can see his point. Big question now is do McLaren go with a rookie or not.
Dennis (radio): "Mate I have possibly the hardest car in the world to drive. How are we so far off? I do two corners like the lap of my life and the rest it’s a f****** shed. It’s unbelievable."
The future of
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in Italy, an
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The weekend's final
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Sadly Seb Buemi is out of the second Diriyah EPrix. There is a small crack in the survival cell and the with no time to get spare Jaguar tub ready an official withdrawal was inevitable
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For, I think the first time ever (certainly that I can remember) there were no penalties in race one! Astounding, considering the state of the track still & the nature of Diriyah track. Think it could be very different today, although will be even more flat-out!🤦♂️
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Leo Thomas will replace outgoing Stellantis Motorsport Formula E director. He replaces Thomas Chevaucher who is rumoured to be joining the FIA. Thomas was influential in Techeetah, DS Techeetah and Jean-Eric Vergne's two titles between 2017 and 2019.
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Misano will play host to 11 Rookie drivers in April. This will be followed by a full day of testing on Monday 13th May in Berlin for 22 that have not driven in an EPrix before. Who will be on the rookie list? Here are a few clues -
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Nyck de Vries will drive in Super Formula for Team Impul at Motegi and Fuji! This will not affect his Formula E programme with Mahindra. Full story incoming
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There was a lot of business being put in place in the driver market at Portland and also behind closed doors this week. We can’t answer all the questions but if you have any burning ones let us know and we’ll try our best 👍
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All the photos you see on here are from
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archive unless stated. Here’s one from season one, May 2915, and a bunch of clowns at Monaco. Can you name them?
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A future race at the 'The Bund'? Simsy's Action Packed Stewards Debut and all the in-depth stories and reactions from a busy first
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Good news about Bird. He’s travelling out to China a little later to give max time for healing process on left hand. But clearly sim sessions went well. Frees up super sub Barnard for a second crack at Monaco in the last month this weekend. Caio Collet on standby in Shangers now.