Pre Season Testing commenced in Valencia recently for the Teams involved in the 2019/2020 Season….
Read MoreJoined by two new significant players….the factory teams from Porsche and Mercedes can only help boost interest in the all electric race series. This will be the sixth season with every new year bringing more sponsors, competitors and media interest.
Read MorePorsche are doing their best to give the Taycan a good start to life. To add to a small array of similar achievements the car was recently taken to the Nurburgring where it got the fastest lap of any four dour electric car….an achievement but the category is a bit spurious.
Read MoreA farewell tour for the TS050 HYBRID begins on 1 September with the 4 Hours of Silverstone, the first of eight races on four continents featuring a combined 66 hours of racing on historic tracks such as Sebring, Spa-Francorchamps and Fuji Speedway, ending at Le Mans on 13-14 June 2020.
Read MoreThe first electric race car to beat Formula 1: The Volkswagen ID.R has made motorsport history again by setting a new all-time record at the ‘Goodwood Festival of Speed’. Romain Dumas completed the 1.86-kilometre track in the south of England in just 39.90 seconds. In doing so, the 500-kW (680-PS) electric race car broke the previous record, which had stood for 20 years, by 1.7 seconds
Read MoreFantastic video showing the Tesla Model 3 taking on the might of BMW, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo …
Read MoreThe Volkswagen ID.R all electric race car is on its way to Goodwood to take on the challenge of beating the standing track record. Electric cars are becoming increasingly more powerful and have long since reached the same level as cars with combustion engines in many areas. …..
Read MorePorsche is iconic and such an important player in the world of motorsports. To have Porsche as a fully committed manufacturer team in Formula E is quite a scoop. …
Read MoreJean-Eric Vergne held off the advances of Mitch Evans and weathered a late rain shower to win in Bern and extend his lead at the top of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship standings to 32-points over Lucas di Grassi.
Read MoreAlejandro Agag, Founder & CEO of Formula E, said: “The documentary encapsulates the true mission and purpose of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship, to show how competition drives technological development and how the excitement of sport can have a meaningful social impact and alter perceptions of electric vehicles.
Read MoreOnly a day after the launch of the new VW ID.R racecar that has been rebuilt specifically to take on the challenges of the 20.83 kilometre VW is testing two chassis alternatives to find which works best on this 500 kW (680 PS) race car.
Read MoreVolkswagen I.D. R will attempt to set a Nurburgring lap record
Volkswagen is driving forward at high speed, both in production vehicles and on the racetrack. Following the record-breaking run at the famous Pikes Peak Hill Climb, the ID. R – Volkswagen’s fully-electric sports car – has now set its sights on another record in the summer of 2019: the lap record for electric cars on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in Germany, which is regarded as one of the toughest racetracks in the world.
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