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Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team will be the final team in the first season

With the announcement of the Venturi Grand Prix Formula E Team, the 2014/2015 Formula E season has its complete grid of 10 teams each with two cars. The Venturi Grand Prix team has been created by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and Gildo Pallanca Pas...

The series will begin in September 2014

For a series that has never held a race, Formula E has announced that it will use three different cars to race in the last year and a half, but it says that the newest one – the Spark-Renault SRT_01E – will actually be racing next seas...

The test car only had a quarter of the power of the full version

The Formula E Spark-Renault SRT_01E made its first track test at the La Ferté Gaucher circuit on November 20 and 21. The test car used a 50kw (67hp) electric motor, rather than the 200kw (268hp) that the full racing version will use. The te...

The series does not begin until September 2014

The inaugural Formula E season does not start until September 2014, but the car was shown driving publicly for the first time during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on January 6. It was also the first time that the  Spark-Renault S...

Eight other cities nearly confirmed

The forthcoming Formula E series chose a difficult route into international racing. It could have hooked onto an existing racing series as a support event and had guaranteed tracks and crowds, but it decided that it would be best to do things alon...

Has confirmed races in Rio and Rome

Formula E, the racing series for electric, open-wheel cars, appears to be making a real attempt at success. The series has already confirmed races in Rio de Janeiro and Rome and says that more will be confirmed in the near future. It has also gone...

It will visit 10 cities in 2014 and 2015

The Formula E racing series is moving along and has just had its first season calendar ratified by the FIA and announced its ninth team of ten.  The official schedule will take the series to ten cities in Europe, Asia, North America and S...

Sebastian Vettel and Alonso will start the Formula One weekend in Japan as favourites to take the win at the Suzuka circuit. The German and the Spaniard were the two last winners of the last two Japan GPs. Vettel won last year and Alonso the previous...

The car will be loaded in Russia and shipped to Canada

Four 70-year-old men from the UK are circumnavigating the world in two Suzuki Jimnys. The drive is meant to raise money for Save the Children and Oakhaven Hospice in Lymington, Hampshire. The journey began on Easter Sunday, and they have ...

Discover the latest results from the European crash test association

EuroNCAP has revealed the latest results of its crash tests. This time the electric executive Tesla Model S, the BMW 2 Series Active Tourer, the Nissan Pulsar, the all-new Skoda Fabia, the Renault Mégane and the new Suzuki city car Celerio ...