Enzo Fittipaldi joins Lola Formula E team
Lola has completed its driver line-up for the upcoming Formula E season with Enzo Fittipaldi completing an all-rookie driver pairing for the team.
Fittipaldi, grandson of F1 and IndyCar legend Emerson Fittipaldi, joins after a strong season in Indy NXT where he won four times en route to second in the championship, and following a previous Formula E outing at the 2024 rookie test in Berlin. Like new teammate Robert Shwartzman, Fittipaldi has already been heavily involved in the development of the new T004 GEN4 car, working closely with Lola and its technical partner Yamaha over the summer.
“I’m extremely excited to be joining Lola for my debut season in Formula E,” he said. “This is a big step forward in my racing career, and I’m incredibly grateful to the team for putting their trust in me and giving me this opportunity.
“Lola is a name with so much history and heritage in motorsport, and it’s a privilege to be part of this new chapter alongside Yamaha. I’m also thrilled to be joining the team at such an exciting time, with projects like the T70S bringing Lola’s iconic past into the future.”
Fittipaldi won the 2018 Italian Formula 4 championship, finishing third in the German series in the same year before going on the compete in Formula Regional, FIA Formula 3 and Formula 2 – winning twice in the latter – as well as competing in the LMP2 classes of the European Le Mans Series and the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship. He also tested in IndyCar for Dale Coyne Racing and Arrow McLaren in 2023 and ’24 respectively.
Despite being a Formula E rookie, as with Shwartzman, Fittipaldi's experience across a range of series is something team principal Mark Preston believes will be beneficial to Lola.
“Enzo is a great fit for Lola Formula E, bringing experience from a range of single-seater series that will prove beneficial as he transitions to all-electric racing,” he said. “He has the talent, work ethic and technical understanding to be a great asset as we enter this new era for the sport and during testing he has shown a strong ability to work effectively alongside the engineers to help us extract as much performance as possible from the T004.”
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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