The Portuguese driver will not continue with the Jota Porsche Hypercar squad next season at the request of his employer in Formula E.Da Costa, FE champion in 2019/20 with DS Techeetah and LMP2 WEC champion with Jota in 2022, admitted sadness that he will not be able to continue toContinue Reading
Testing at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Spain was postponed following a battery fire in the garage of battery supplier WAE (formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering) on Tuesday afternoon.Following an investigation by the FIA and WAE, which concluded that “none of the [other] batteries present the same type ofContinue Reading
Less than three months separated the season finale in London from the start of Formula E pre-season testing in Valencia last week and the beginning of a new campaign. It was events off the track that proved to be the main talking point from the test at the Circuit Ricardo TormoContinue Reading
The situation could have been serious, but the worst was avoided thanks to perfectly applied safety procedures. On Tuesday morning, test driver Robert Shwartzman stopped the #2 DS E-TENSE FE23 usually driven by Stoffel Vandoorne at Turn 11. The car appeared to be experiencing a battery problem, a part commonContinue Reading
The Kiwi, who moved from Jaguar customer team Envision to the full factory outfit in the off-season, jumped to the top of the timesheets with a 1m24.617s inside the final 20 minutes at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo on Friday.His best effort left him less than half a tenth clear ofContinue Reading
The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon in the garage of battery supplier WAE (formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering) at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Spain.Running was postponed at the test indefinitely while a full investigation was undertaken by the FIA and WAE, before the governing body confirmed that testingContinue Reading
The 27-lap race was held on Friday morning and offered drivers, teams and race control the chance to run through procedures including Attack Mode activations, full course yellows and safety cars.Jaguar’s Mitch Evans, who has topped both sessions to take place at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Spain so far,Continue Reading
Nobody was seriously injured in the incident on Tuesday afternoon, with only one person taken to hospital as a precaution, but the infrastructure damage has been high, notably in the garage of WAE (formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering) where the incident occurred.But while the flames were confined to theContinue Reading
The Jaguar driver topped the timesheets at the end of the four-and-a-half-hour session with a 1m24.791s, leaving him just 0.023s clear of Porsche’s Antonio Felix da Costa.The same pair also topped the standings on Tuesday morning prior to a fire in the garage of battery supplier WAE (formerly known asContinue Reading
Three days of running at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Spain have been curtailed since Tuesday afternoon when a battery exploded in the garage of battery supplier WAE (formerly known as Williams Advanced Engineering).Most of the blaze was contained inside the WAE garage by emergency services, but the neighbouring MahindraContinue Reading