On the back of Dan Ticktum’s momentous and breakthrough Formula E victory in Jakarta, the managing director of the CUPRA KIRO Formula E team, Jeremy Tarica, talks about what the win means for Formula E’s newest team ownership. He joins Andrew van de Burgt and Sam Smith to discuss how the team went from near extinction to winners in less than a year. Tarica also talks about the wider points of what he and his fellow investors have learned since they took over the team and also Dan Ticktum’s metam...
Jun 27, 2025•53 min
We look back on an intriguing Shanghai E-Prix double-header in which Maximilian Guenther and Nick Cassidy took surprise wins as mixed conditions again visited Formula E. Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt ask whether, despite a relatively poor weekend by his own high-standards, Oliver Rowland now just has to play the percentage game to wrap up the title in Berlin with two rounds to spare next month. Additionally, Cassidy’s first win for a year came when The Race broke news of his impending exit f...
Jun 06, 2025•56 min
A typically multi-threaded and all-action Formula E weekend played out in Tokyo with a first ever double-header on the streets of the Japanese capital. Stoffel Vandoorne’s ending of his own personal fallow three seasons is analysed, as is Oliver Rowland’s seemingly unassailable rise to become Formula E world champion this year after winning his fourth race of the season. Excellent performances by a rare zen weekend for Dan Ticktum and boy winder Taylor Barnard are also covered, while Porsche’s D...
May 23, 2025•49 min
The first ever Monaco E-Prix double header witnessed a plethora of typically fraught and controversial races in the Principality with points leader Oliver Rowland extending his lead after a win, second place and pole position.The Nissan driver's excellent form is delved into, as hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt ask whether he is now the overwhelming favourite to be crowned champion this July. The re-emergence of Sebastien Buemi as a Formula E winner is discussed as he and Envision Racing ...
May 09, 2025•50 min
An appraisal of Formula E’s surprising choice of Homestead as a venue for the tenuously titled Miami E-Prix is picked through after a messy end to a race that saw numerous penalties applied. Pascal Wehrlein had elements of fortune on the way to his first E-Prix win of the season, while teammate Antonio Felix da Costa was one of several drivers to be scuppered by a late red flag for a multi-car shunt at a specially made chicane. The possibility of Wehrlein retaining his title is dug in to, as is ...
Apr 25, 2025•43 min
Filling the gargantuan two month gap in the 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E world championship season, Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt discuss several key talking points before the campaign resumes at Homestead, Miami next week. The main topic of conversation is the messy collapse of an attempted takeover of the Maserati MSG squad, which Smith broke the news of recently. Details of the aborted deal are discussed, as is the future of the Monegasque team and how it can attract a new owner and investor...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 24 min
An intense first double-header of the 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E world championship season in Jeddah is picked over by regular hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt, in addition to special guest Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans. A strong weekend for Oliver Rowland is analysed along with Max Guenther’s win it then bin it races, while the 'Boy Wonder' Taylor Barnard’s extraordinary ascent is detailed in full. Evans gives details on why Jaguar had such a poor weekend by their lofty standards and al...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Nissan boss Tommaso Volpe joins host Andrew van de Burgt and chief reporter Sam Smith to analyse Oliver Rowland’s superb smash ‘n’ grab victory at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City E-Prix. Questions such as would Rowland have caught the Porsches without the intervention of the first safety car and will Nissan mount a serious challenge to Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa for the title are also dissected with Volpe. A poor race for Jaguar TCS Racing is mulled over, as are t...
Jan 15, 2025•58 min
The 2024-25 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship began with a bang in Sao Paulo with Mitch Evans taking an extraordinary last to first win in his new Jaguar Gen3Evo machine. That was only part of a dramatic landscape to a race that also included two red flags, the last of which was for Pascal Wehrlein’s inverted Porsche. The reigning champion emerged unscathed from the wreck after tangling with fellow assumed title rival Nick Cassidy’s already damaged Jaguar. Other stellar performances analysed ...
Dec 11, 2024•47 min
A big fat 2024/25 ABB FIA Formula E season preview from The Race’s Formula E team sees a team-by-team prospect guide dug in to as anticipation for what could be the closest ever campaign reaches a crescendo. Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by one of the pre-season favourites Oliver Rowland as the Nissan driver talks about his hopes and aims after an excellent season last time around. The British ace also gives his opinions on Formula E’s capturing of a new ITV broadcast deal on the ...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Just how did Formula E pivot from Valencia to Jarama to ensure its pre-season test happened at all? This and many other topics from this month’s test week are examined by Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt. They are joined by Formula E digital reporter Alexa Rendell as news strands such as the pit boosting pit stop practice, David Beckmann’s deal to race with the new-look Kiro team and a potential crisis on tyre allocation is dug in to. The well-publicised all-female test at Jarama, which was hea...
Nov 26, 2024•1 hr 9 min
As the new Formula E season approaches The Race Formula E podcast hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt speak to new Maserati MSG duo Stoffel Vandoorne and Jake Hughes as they ready for the first season of the Gen3Evo era. Hughes tells The Race about how the sheer violence of the enhanced acceleration of the All-Wheel-Drive element of the new package a game changer for the all-electric series, while Vandoorne evaluates how he will fightback from a tough two campaigns at former team DS Penske. ...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 28 min
The second part of The Race Formula E Podcast’s celebration of a decade of the all-electric world championship looks at the Gen2 and Gen3 eras. Joining hosts Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt is double champion Jean-Eric Vergne, 12 time EPrix winner Sam Bird and Andretti boss Roger Griffiths. They offer up some fascinating personal memories of their time in Formula E with a combination of victorious memories and honest reflection. Smith and Van de Burgt recall some of the more entertaining misad...
Sep 26, 2024•2 hr 12 min
The first of a special two-part series looking back at a decade of Formula E focuses on the early years of the all-electric series and features current broadcaster Nicki Shields, former commentator Jack Nicholls, and 2019-20 champion Antonio Felix da Costa. Sam Smith and Andre van de Burgt host over an hour of memories about how Formula E got together in the first place, how it almost died after three races and then boomed in the first five years of its existence. Memories of the first season ar...
Sep 19, 2024•1 hr 28 min
It's season review time on this bumper episode of The Race Formula E Podcast as we look back at a wild 2024 campaign featuring eight different winners. For host Andrew van de Burgt, The Race Formula E Correspondent Sam Smith and Formula E's lead commentator Tom Brooks, that means revisiting their forecasts from the start of campaign to reflect on just how accurately they predicted this most unpredictable of series. That's followed by a team-by-team analysis, with a particular focus on Andretti's...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Newly crowned Formula E World Champion Pascal Wehrlein joins Andrew van de Burgt and Sam Smith to describe how he claimed the big prize and what it means to bring Porsche its first all-electric title in London. Also joining the show is TAG-Heuer Porsche Formula E Teams director Florian Modlinger. He goes in to detail on how the title was won and what it means after a five year quest for glory. The fall-out from the Jaguar strategy missteps are also analysed, along with the detail of how the Big ...
Jul 24, 2024•1 hr 26 min
The 2024 ABB FIA Formula E world championship title fight was blown wide open at the expansive Portland International Raceway as Antonio Felix da Costa scored a remarkable double for Porsche. After scoring zero points in the first three races and having even his position in the Porsche team questioned, da Costa is now an outside bet to become a double Formula E champion in the most unlikely of scenarios. But realistically it’s a scrap between Jaguar teammates Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy, as wel...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min
The Formula E driver market is ablaze, so we thought we’d get Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt to pour some sustainable fuel upon it for this special episode. The futures of two former champions, Antonio Felix da Costa and Stoffel Vandoorne, are at the forefront of 'silly season' rumours with the former set to essentially dictate the market after a tumultuous second year with the German manufacturer. Vandoorne’s recent talks with Envision are analysed, as is the possibility of Jake Hughes break...
Jun 13, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by motorsport writer and The Race contributor, Alice Holloway, as the business end of the 2024 Formula E season arrives, with talk of the title fight now being a straight scrap between Jaguar’s Nick Cassidy and Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein. But neither of them took the wins as the all-electric world championship returned to mainland China for the first time since 2015. It was their respective teammates Mitch Evans and Antonio Felix da Costa that triumphe...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 15 min
The Race Formula E podcast takes an in-depth look in to a tempestuous weekend at Berlin Tempelhof where Nick Cassidy and Antonio Felix da Costa triumphed amid a hail of carbon shards and intra-team and manufacturer recriminations. The Race team explain why the racing was so fraught and what the slow-build and then quick burst peloton style of racing means for Formula E’s future. The bigger picture of what Cassidy’s bumper points haul means for the title race is also analysed, as is how his teamm...
May 16, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Jaguar’s peerless 1-2 at Monaco is picked apart by Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt as the Big Cat captured only its second 1-2 in the all-electric world championship. Mitch Evans victory was only one key aspect of a busy weekend which also saw plenty of off track news including Jaguar’s commitment to the Gen4 rules era, the unveiling of the Gen3Evo model that will race from next season onwards and the hiring of former Indycar entrant Beth Paretta. Smith and Van de Burgt also analyse how DS Pen...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 15 min
A typically action-packed Formula E weekend at the energy-bonkers Misano circuit in Italy is debated in this episode with special guest Maserati MSG’s Maximilian Guenther. Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein were the victors but the biggest story of the weekend was Antonio Felix da Costa’s bizarre and petty disqualification and the furious exchanges between Porsche and the FIA That is forensically analysed, as is the why Oliver Rowland ran out of energy while starting the last lap handing Wehrlei...
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 15 min
The Race Formula E podcast goes big in Japan as the inaugural Tokyo EPrix is reviewed by Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt. How did Maximilian Guenther spring a surprise for Maserati MSG? Why did Oliver Rowland relinquish the lead? What happened to Edoardo Mortara after his qualifying heroics and why did Norman Nato’s sixth place get reinstated? All this and much more is covered, including an interview with the new Lola-Yamaha programme manager Mark Preston, as he outlines Lola’s ambition for 20...
Apr 03, 2024•43 min
In this special episode of The Race Formula E podcast Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt report from the Tokyo EPrix paddock with special guests Tommaso Volpe and Tadashi Nishikawa from the Nissan Formula team. An in-depth look in to Nissan’s electric programme is discussed, as is the recent announcement of the Japanese giant’s commitment to the Gen4 rules set which will ensure it remains racing in the world championship until 2030. Additionally, Volpe and Nishikawa, outline Nissan’s technical pr...
Mar 28, 2024•31 min
A dramatic pot-boiling Sao Paulo EPrix is reviewed by Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt as they analyse the thrilling final lap win for Sam Bird, the first for the NEOM McLaren team. The duo are joined by Jaguar TCS Racing team principal James Barclay who talks over both Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy’s contrasting races and how the team ae reflecting on its generally positive start to the 2024 season. Also dissected are Oliver Rowland’s outrageous 5th to 3rd last corner mugging of Jake Dennis and...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 3 min
After an enforced and agonising seven-week gap in the 2024 calendar Formula E is back this weekend with the second Sao Paulo EPrix. Andrew van de Burgt is on feisty form as he questions some of the ‘noise’ generated in the intervening period since the Diriyah races in January, while Sam Smith reports from a visit to NEOM McLaren where he chats to team principal Ian James. The recent episode of The Apprentice is mulled over by Van de Burgt who is unflinching in his assessment of what he believed ...
Mar 12, 2024•59 min
The two Diriyah EPrixs through up vastly different protagonists last week with only Nick Cassidy managing to achieve anything bordering on consistency. In this week’s Formula E podcast Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by Envision Racing’s Robin Frijns who put behind him a disappointing Friday race in Riyadh to lead but ultimately finish second to Cassidy in the second race. The trio discuss what made the event so difficult and what could be done in the future to make track conditions...
Feb 01, 2024•42 min
The opening 2023 ABB FIA Formula E world championship race at the 2024 Mexico City EPrix was no classic but it still offered up some points of interest and one big controversial flashpoint. That was the investigation in to Porsche's starts, and while they were cleared of any wrongdoing, The Race’s Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt delve in to the backstory of the investigations. Wehrlein’s conclusive win is also contextualised, as is the fine performances of Sebastien Buemi, Nick Cassidy and Max...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 3 min
As the 10th season of Formula E approaches The Race previews what is being billed as the closest yet battle for the all-electric world title. Giving Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt a run for their money on the jibber-jabber in this episode is new lead Formula E commentator Tom Brooks. He gives his opinions and predictions on the season ahead including who might take the title, who will win EPrixs, who might struggle and how the hotly anticipated ‘attack charge’ boosting pit-stops might fair. 2...
Jan 10, 2024•1 hr 1 min
The final episode of The Race Formula E podcast features an interview with new lead presenter for the all-electric World Championship Jermaine Jenas. The former Tottenham Hotspur, Newcastle United and England midfielder joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt to talk about his new challenger for 2024. The broadcasting of Formula E comes under scrutiny as Sam and Andrew answer readers’ questions, several of which ask about Formula E’s new deal with the TNT subscription broadcaster. There is a lig...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 15 min
