Author: Fleur Rogerson

Nissan made it another session led, With Norman Nato topping the timing sheets in FP1 at the Tokyo E-Prix. The grid was raring to go for FP1 in the eighth round of season 11. With Rowland’s form over the opening rounds, he has marked himself as the driver to beat in the early part of the season. However, in such a competitive series, it’s not without challenges. Buemi thwarted Rowland’s hopes of a clean sweep across the weekend. Tokyo is an important weekend for Mahindra, as the team’s home race, and no doubt Rowland will be hoping to have a…

Without rain disruptions, drivers finally completed vital race runs during day three of practice for the Indy 500, with Josef Newgarden impressing. Álex Palou showed another strong start to the Indianapolis weekend, leading the pack at the end of the second day of practice. The reigning champion harbouring a 2 mph advantage over the rest of the grid. However, there is still a long way to go in the week of preparation for the 109th running of the Indy500. Josef Newgarden was looking to make it a third win in a row, Palou hoping for his first ever oval win,…

Oscar Piastri praised McLaren’s hard work ahead of the Imola GP, leading him to have a near perfect start to the 2025 season. With four wins in the first six races, Piastri has stormed his way to the championship lead, fuelled by the ever fast papaya car underneath him. In Miami, Piastri cross the line 37 seconds ahead of the first non-McLaren car, a show of the step the team have on the rest of the field. Oscar Piastri told print media in the Thursday press conference before the Imola GP that it was hard not to enjoy the performance…

Álex Palou continued his dominant form during the IndyCar Sonsio GP qualifying, taking pole. Behind him, Graham Rahal and Louis Foster made it an impressive two-three. Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing took a clean sweep in FP2, with Graham Rahal leading his drivers. RLL had seemed rapid throughout the weekend at Barber as well, but when it came to qualifying they missed out and weren’t able to capitalise in the ways they hoped. Coming into Sonsio they were looking to secure themselves a place further up the grid, and hopefully pole. But trying to best Álex Palou has been a difficult…

Oliver Rowland narrowly missed out on completing the double at the Monaco E-Prix, losing out to Sébastien Buemi in the rain. Despite not managing to make it two race wins in one weekend, Rowland still found himself on the podium when the chequered flag fell. However, it wasn’t a straightforward race for the championship leader. With the rain coming down at the beginning of the race, the track was slippery, and each move needed delicate precision to avoid a collision. Rowland’s chance at a win ended when DS Penske’s Jean-Éric Vergne held the field up behind Rowland. This caused him…

Mitch Evans led the pack around the circuit in FP3 for the Monaco E-Prix with a 1:26.614. He was followed by Dennis and De Vries. Oliver Rowland took the chequered flag around the principality on Saturday to take his third win in Season 11. But all is to play for again coming into the second round of the double-header. The final practice session offers drivers their last opportunity to get a sense of the conditions as clouds loomed over the hills of Monte Carlo. Just ahead of the start of the session there were reports of light rain around the…

Taylor Barnard qualified on pole for Race 1 in Monaco, a year after his debut, but it fell apart after a collision with Wehrlein took him out of the points. Last year in the principality, Taylor Barnard jumped into the NEOM McLaren for the race when Sam Bird crashed and injured his hand. In the race, he finished 14th and impressed the team enough that for Season 11, he had a full-time seat. Since then Barnard has moved from strength to strength looking to break every record possible. Currently, he holds youngest, pole sitter, points scorer and podium scorer. The…

After a crash in qualifying, Oliver Rowland redeemed himself with a well deserved win around the narrow streets of Monaco, marking himself as the driver to beat in FE season 11. The race wasn’t straight forward for the championship leader. At one point in the race he was down in fifth with two Mahindras and two Andrettis ahead of him. Although Rowland had attack mode left and the front four didn’t, he wasn’t confident about his chances. He told Media in the post-race press conference, “honestly, when I got dropped back to fifth, I was really angry. I don’t know…

Dan Ticktum led another session around the narrow streets of the Monaco E-Prix, topping the FP2 timings with a 1:26.779, followed by Jake Dennis and Edo Mortara. Dan Ticktum led the opening session at the iconic Monaco E-Prix, with teams taking every moment around the winding streets to get up to speed with the GEN3 Evo cars. With the principality hosting a double header for the first time in the series history, the teams will get two chances to get themselves to the front of the grid come race day. It also gives two drivers the unique opportunity of leaving…

McLaren has shown themselves to be an incredibly strong team in Season 11 of Formula E, and Ian James says they’re looking for another strong showing at the Monaco E-Prix. Taylor Barnard has taken three podiums for McLaren in Season 11. Taking the title of the youngest points scorer, pole sitter and podium scorer. For Sam Bird, it’s been a season of points finishes, unfortunately marred by penalties that have pushed him down the championship order. In Miami, they saw the first difficult weekend of Season 11. Still managing to leave with points but missing out on the opportunity to…