Formula E Holdings, series promoters of the FIA Formula E Championship, today concluded its first round of financing, attracting a new wave of investors totalling 50 million euros. The main investors in this round are Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture capital arm Qualcomm Ventures, and Andorran-based private equity fund Amura Capital. Both have committed to […]
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Jaime Alguersuari began karting at the age of eight in his native Spain and it wouldn’t be long before he would become the youngest-ever driver to make a Formula 1 race appearance and the first Spanish teenager to follow in the footsteps of Fernando Alonso. After success in the Formula Junior series and Formula Renault,
Sam Bird appeared on the karting scene in 2002, racing competitively in events across Europe, including the ICA Garda Cup and the Federation Cup. Following his stint in karting, Bird won a scholarship to race in the inaugural season of Formula BMW with Carlin Motorsport. He ended the year with three wins and finished as
Virgin has today announced that Jaime Alguersuari and Sam Bird will join the Virgin Racing Formula E Team to compete in the 2014/2015 all-electric FIA Formula E Championship. Spaniard Alguersuari became the youngest-ever driver to make a Formula One race appearance in 2009 when he competed for Toro Rosso. After success at junior level, he
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Ho-Pin Tung – the first Chinese driver to ever test a Formula 1 car – reckons that the all-new FIA Formula E Championship will feature ‘super-close’ racing, after testing the fully-electric Spark-Renault STR_01E race car for the first time last week. Tung, who has tested F1 cars for Williams and Renault, piloted the single-seater at
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Formula E is gaining traction as the new line-up of TV presenters has been announced. Nicki Shields will be track side and in the pitts giving up to the minute information on what’s going on as it happens during the races plus Jack Nicholls will be in the commentary box and joined by four time
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GT Academy winners Wolfgang Reip and Lucas Ordóñez – plus three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama – have a totally new set of buttons to learn when they jump behind the wheel of the Nissan ZEOD RC. While Reip and Ordóñez began their racing career pushing buttons on their PlayStation controllers, the talented racers
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Circuit details for the second round of the 2014/2015 FIA Formula E Championship have today been revealed with the layout of the new Putrajaya ePrix. The Putrajaya Formula E race, or ePrix, takes place six months from now on October 18 and forms the second of 10 races for the inaugural 2014/2015 season. It has
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Three-time Japanese Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama will join Nissan GT Academy winners Lucas Ordóñez and Wolfgang Reip on the driver line-up for the revolutionary electric Nissan ZEOD RC at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. Motoyama will make his fourth Le Mans start aboard the Nissan racer which combines a 300 horsepower electric powertrain with a 400 horsepower/40 kilogram/1.5 liter turbocharged petrol engine. The Japanese ace completed his first
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Organisers of the FIA Formula E Championship have today announced a new partnership with leading carbon capture company Global Thermostat to significantly reduce the CO2 emissions generated by the series and to jointly promote sustainable technologies. Beginning this September in Beijing, Formula E is the FIA’s global motorsport championship featuring fully- electric open-wheel cars racing
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