One race is all it could take for Sam Bird to make his presence felt in the 2020/21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship.With six races remaining, it would appear at first glance that Bird’s current rank of 11th in the standings would make him an afterthought to take the...

The Manor F1 team is to close after administrators were unable to find a buyer for the struggling outfit.Five days after Formula 1 came under new ownership, Just Racing Services Limited – the operating company for Manor's F1 program – has ceased trading. Staff were sent home on Friday having...

The Haas Formula 1 team still has a long way to go to earn the respect of the pitlane's top technical figures, reckons its founder Gene Haas.Although the American squad has made the strongest impression of any completely new F1 team since Toyota's factory project joined the grid in 2002,...

Lucas di Grassi believes Formula 1 world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel would "have a hard time" in Formula E.Di Grassi raced against Hamilton and Vettel in Formula 3, finishing third in Hamilton's European title-winning 2005 season, when Vettel was fifth. The Brazilian spent the next season with GP2...

Formula E points leader Lucas di Grassi believes that Formula 1's stars would struggle if they were dropped onto the Formula E grid.Speaking to CNN ahead of next weekend's race in Paris, the ABT driver said that Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton would have a hard time adapting to the...

Formula E supplier Williams believes it is unfair to criticize its batteries after the spate of technical issues in last Saturday's Putrajaya ePrix.Thermal management of the Williams Advanced Engineering battery was the most significant part of the Malaysian event, as teams struggled to deal with the 102-degree ambient temperature and...

Manor team principal John Booth (near left) and sporting director Graeme Lowdon (far left) are understood to have tendered their resignations from the Formula 1 squad. The duo, who formed Manor Grand Prix in 2009 prior to it being renamed Virgin Racing ahead of its entry into F1 the following...

Former Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Jaime Alguersuari has announced his retirement from motorsport, the the age of 25.The Spaniard became the youngest driver in F1 history when he made his debut at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, aged 19 years and 125 days. He left the team and F1...

BMW has ruled out an entry into the Formula E Championship in the short term. The German manufacturer, which has an ongoing deal to supply course vehicles to FE, has no interest in joining the series while the practice of drivers swapping cars mid-race remains, BMW Motorsport boss Jens Marquardt...

The level of power available in Formula E races could be increased for the second season of the championship, in a proposal currently under evaluation.In the inaugural 2014-'15 campaign, power was restricted to 150kw in race mode compared to the full amount of 200kw available in practice and qualifying. The...