He took a drive-through penalty for failing to make the car change within his pit box, but Briton Sam Bird still managed to show the field a clean pair of heels to win the first ePrix of Season 4 in the FIA Formula E Championship in Hong Kong. The DS...

Rahal Letterman Lanigan will move into electric racing next year as the first confirmed team in the new Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY series.The series, which will support Formula E, is the first to be based on a street-legal production battery vehicle. It is scheduled to begin in tandem with the start...

Dr Martin Leach, chief of the NextEV Formula E team and a long-time automotive industry executive, has died at the age of 59.Leach was a co-founder of the NextEV electric car company that took charge of what had started out as Team China in the inaugural FE season. A successful...

The NextEV Formula E team is adamant it will be far more competitive in the 2016/17 season after a disastrous title defense for Nelson Piquet Jr.The Chinese-owned company bought into the Team China Racing FE entry midway through the inaugural season, and aided Piquet's run to the first drivers' title.However,...

Inaugural Formula E champion Nelson Piquet Jr and Oliver Turvey will remain with the NextEV team for the 2016/17 FE season.Piquet and Turvey endured a difficult 2015/16 campaign with the Chinese-backed operation, which struggled with a heavy twin-motor powertrain. Rookie Turvey outscored Piquet 11-8 in the drivers' championship but the...

Lucas di Grassi has emerged as the victor of the Formula E team bosses' top 10 drivers poll for the 2015-'16 season.For the electric single-seater championship's second campaign Autosport has conducted an exclusive poll of team figureheads, asking them for their top 10 drivers based on performances on track over...

The race to secure the remaining 2016-17 Formula E drives has intensified after the grid ticked past half-full last week.DS Virgin Racing's confirmation of Jose Maria Lopez and Sam Bird was swiftly followed by the ousted Jean-Eric Vergne's confirmation at the new Techeetah entry, alongside Ma Qing Hua.That sets Antonio...

Nelson Piquet Jr will make his NASCAR return in the Xfinity Series race at Mid-Ohio next month. The Brazilian will suit up for Biagi-DenBeste Racing, and said that he is looking forward to the opportunity. "I'm absolutely thrilled to be racing in Mid-Ohio next month," said Piquet. "NASCAR has been...

Sebastien Buemi has dismissed Lucas di Grassi's concern that Fanboost issues could decide the Formula E title on the grounds it is not influential enough anyway.Renault e.dams driver Buemi holds a one-point lead over di Grassi heading into this weekend's deciding doubleheader in London.Di Grassi fears the championship's Fanboost voting...

Jean-Eric Vergne claimed pole position for the Berlin ePrix, which Formula E championship leader Lucas di Grassi will start down in 10th.Vergne's superpole effort of 57.811s bested Renault e.dams driver Sebastien Buemi by just 0.016s."I thought the lap wasn't going to be good enough," said Vergne, who clinched his first...