The Audi Sport ABT team have unveiled their new team livery at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland. Revealed on stage, the only German team in the inaugural year of FIA’s Formula E, pulled the covers off the fully electric Spark-Renault SRT_01E car to display their red and black livery. The new car will make […]
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Before the Audi R18 e-tron quattro is allowed to contest its first race, the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) has to approve it. The required homologation documents had to be submitted by February 15. When the Audi Sport squad headed by Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich tackles the construction of a new race car, a challenging task
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Although the actual FIA Formula E race event may be relatively short at around an hour’s time for most races, the event doesn’t stop there. Organisers of the FIA Formula E Championship have appointed an experienced event company to handle live entertainment to the race events around the world. CDC Entertainment has been announced as
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Generally speaking, government are very supportive of sporting events, the Olympics in 2012 being an obvious example where sport is used to gain attention for the nation as a whole. Motoring events on the other hand, are often lauded as noisy and irritating to residents who live near race tracks, with the result being that
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Formula E’s fully-electric Spark-Renault SRT_01E car has now completed 1,000km of testing without a single glitch – the equivalent of an entire season’s worth of racing. Built by Spark Racing Technology together with a consortium of some of the leading names in motorsport, the 200kw (270bhp) single-seater has undergone an arduous testing programme since its
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Lucas di Grassi began karting in 1994 and within three years was already winning championship races before working his way to Formula 1 with the Virgin F1 Team. Di Grassi made his car debut in 2003 driving in the South American Formula 3 series and finishing second in his debut year. He switched to the
Daniel’s family is no stranger to the world of motorsport with his father Hans-Jürgen, the owner and team principal of Abt Sportsline which competes in the DTM series, amongst others, as well as being the only German Formula E squad. His uncle, Christian Abt, is a racing driver as well and was active in DTM
The first official driver placements have been announced for the inaugural season of the FIA’s Formula E all electric championship, shortly after the last set of drivers were revealed as part of the Drivers’ Club. ABT Sportsline have confirmed former Formula One and Audi factory driver Lucas di Grassi and the team principle’s own son,
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The remaining drivers to sign up to Formula E’s new Drivers’ Club have today been revealed with Jaime Alguersuari, Nicolas Minassian, Alex Brundle, Robert Doornbos, Christian Klien, Conor Daly, Katherine Legge and Ben Collins all showing their support for the new global electric racing series. Unveiled last month, the new scheme features a pool of
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With Allan McNish (GB) having retired from Endurance Racing, Le Mans and motorsport in general, Audi have promoted formula Formula One driver and Formula E’s most well known Drivers’ Club member, Lucas di Grassi (BR) to the role of regular driver. Di Grassi will be joining Audi’s title defenders Loïc Duval (F) and Tom Kristensen
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