Day: October 10, 2018

Noble and Wells starts in Asia

Jens Jensen

Colin Noble and Tony Wells will race in the Asian Le Mans Series 2018/19 for Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen Racing. They will join teammates Christian Stubbe Olsen and Nick Adcock, who will pilot the team’s other car in the Asian Series. The team will enter two Ligier JS P3 cars. Noble and Wells know each other from the British LMP3 Cup in Great Britain this season, where they’ve been racing together, and have been on race winning form. The two race against each other in the European Le Mans Series, where Colin…

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Santiago grabs January spot in Formula E

Jens Jensen

The capital of Chile, Santiago, has grabbed the available January slot on the ABB FIA Formula E Championship schedule for the 2018/19 season. When the schedule was announced back in June, there was a single TBA spot in January. When you looked the the nearby events on the calendar, it was quite clear that it would be somewhere in South America. The guessing pointed towards Punta del Este in Uruguay, which was part of the 2017/18 schedule, but instead it went to another 2017/18 host nation, Chile. It won’t, however,…

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Paffett new Formula E driver

Jens Jensen

Gary Paffett has been announced as the first driver for HWA in the ABB FIA Formula E Championship. The British driver knows the team very well, since he has been driving for Mercedes in the DTM ever since 2003, with only 5 of those seasons officially being outside the HWA outfit. HWA will start in Season 5 in December 2018, before Mercedes-AMG will enter as a works team in the 2019/20 season. During this upcoming 2018/19 season, they will utilize a Venturi driveline, that Mercedes by the way also has…

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NIO Formula E Team with Turvey and Dillmann

Jens Jensen

NIO Formula E Team will enter the upcoming ABB FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 season,with two rising stars, in the shape of Oliver Turvey and Tom Dillmann Despite their young age of 31 and 29 years respectively, they already have a lot of Formula E starts under their belts. French Tom Dillmann drove the second half of the 2016/17 season for the Venturi team, and was back in the car for 3 race weekends in the 2017/18 season, where Edoardo Mortara had some date clashes with the DTM series. Now…

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