Lucas Di Grassi

Di Grassi wants to elevate the status of the driverless racing series.

Renault e.dams took the team title again.

An early crash between two leaders means the second season of Formula E was settled with an unusual tie-breaker. The lesson? Every lap counts.

After a troubled race in Mexico City, Lucas di Grassi and the ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport race team have a great Formula E finish in Long Beach, CA.

Saturday saw one driver win the hotly contested fifth round of the 2015-16 FIA Formula E Championship in Mexico City... but another walk away with the points.

20 identical driverless robot cars will compete as a prelude to Formula E races next year, likely beginning in October in Beijing.

To promote its wireless charging tech, Qualcomm races an RC car against Lucas di Grassi in his Formula E racer.

It's been a long time coming, but the inaugural FIA Formula E Championship finally took place this weekend with the first race in China, officially kicking off a new era of electric racing on the international scene with the 2014 Formula E Beijing ePrix.

Formula E completed its first testing session at the Donington Park circuit, where the electric racing series' headquarters are located. Lucas di Grassi, driving for Audi Sport Abt, was kind enough to attach a GoPro video camera to his helmet to give us a pilot's-eye view of what its like to steer Formula E's Spark-Renault SRT_01E around the track at full speed.

For every new driver who makes his way into Formula One, there's another who ends up flunking out, left to find a drive in another racing series. Fortunately there's no shortage of racing disciplines eager to lure a former grand prix pilot to their ranks. And soon there'll be one more.

Until the first Formula E race takes place in Beijing come September, all the hype surrounding the new electric racing series will remain exactly that: hype. But the series has taken a big step toward reality with the first test session of the Spark-Renault SRT_01E that is set to form the backbone of the tree-hugging motorsport discipline.

Doughnuts. They're not just those delicious disks of deep-fried delight sometimes stuffed with custard or jelly, and perhaps lightly dusted with confectioners sugar (mmmm... doughnuts). No, they are also a time-honored, tire-smoking way of demonstrating automotive power and virility.

We've seen lots of camera angles from close to an Formula One driver's point of view, but we don't think we've ever seen the actual thing – a genuine driver's-eye view. Pirelli F1-tire test driver Lucas di Grassi has changed that, placing a camera on his helmet over one of his eyes while doing a hot lap in the wet around Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit. So, yes, that means he drove with just one eye 'open.'

As much as we may wish otherwise, the vast majority of those reading this will never find themselves behind the wheel of a Formula 1 race car. And even if they did, actually piloting one of these beasts at speed around a real race track (video games don't count) is a practice best left to the professionals.

2010 Virgin Racing VR-01 – Click above for image gallery