Veloce Racing
British racing team
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Veloce Racing is a British motorsport team founded by Jean-Éric Vergne, Adrian Newey and Rupert Svendsen-Cook. Veloce formerly competed in the all-female single-seater racing series W Series and the all-electric off-road racing championship Extreme E.
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| Founded | 2020[1] |
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| Team principal(s) | Rupert Svendsen-Cook Mariella Bailey |
| Current series | Extreme H |
| Former series | W Series Extreme E |
| Noted drivers | Extreme E Jamie Chadwick Emma Gilmour Christine GZ Hedda Hosås Molly Taylor Stéphane Sarrazin Lance Woolridge Kevin HansenW Series Jamie Chadwick Bruna Tomaselli |
| Drivers' Championships | W Series: 2021: Jamie Chadwick |
| Website | https://www.veloce.gg/racing |
Extreme E
2021
Veloce joined Extreme E for its inaugural season in 2021, announcing 2019 W Series champion Jamie Chadwick and former F1 and WRC driver Stéphane Sarrazin as their line-up. The team, racing with technical support from ART Grand Prix,[2] won their first podium in the series at the 2021 Ocean X-Prix.[3] Veloce finished the season 7th in the teams championship with a total of 77 points.
2022
On 6 January 2022 Veloce announced that Jamie Chadwick would be replaced for the 2022 season by Christine GZ.[4] At the first round of the season in Saudi Arabia, Christine GZ fractured her foot while competing in Q1, requiring Hedda Hosås to replace her for the remainder of the round.[5]
Prior to the 2022 Energy X-Prix, Veloce announced that Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor would immediately "form the team's new driver pairing" for both the final race of 2022, along with the entire 2023 season.[6] Veloce also appointed 2006 Dakar Rally winner and former alpine skier Luc Alphand as Extreme E team principal.[7]
2023
Veloce won their first race at the 2023 Desert X-Prix after RXR received a 136-second penalty for speeding under a yellow flag.[8] The team also recorded victories in both Round 04 (2023 Hydro X-Prix) and Round 10 (2023 Copper X-Prix) making it their most successful Extreme E season to date.
2024
Veloce retained Hansen and Taylor for the second consecutive season,[9] and E.ON was announced as the team's title sponsor with the team being known as E.ON Veloce Racing and later E.ON Next Veloce Racing for the season.[10] On 6 September 2024, a week before the scheduled Island X-Prix, Extreme E announced that the rounds in Sardinia and Phoenix were cancelled with Veloce Racing leading the championship.[11][12]
W Series
Veloce joined W Series for its second season in 2021, with reigning champion Jamie Chadwick and rookie Bruna Tomaselli as their inaugural driver line-up. At the second round of the season at the Red Bull Ring, Chadwick scored the team's first pole position, podium and win in W Series, beating Beitske Visser by a tenth of a second in qualifying,[13] and driving to a commanding victory during the race.[14] Ahead of round 3 at Silverstone Circuit, Veloce announced Mariella Bailey as the team's W Series team principal. During the final round of the season, with her win in the second race of the weekend at Circuit of the Americas, Jamie Chadwick won her second W Series championship, and the first for Veloce.[15]
Extreme H
On 11 February 2025, Veloce became the first team to confirm its intention to enter the FIA Extreme H World Cup, the series successor of Extreme E.[16] However, Veloce did not compete in the inaugural World Cup.
Results
Extreme E
Overview
* – Indicates cancelled season.
| Extreme E results | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Name | Car | Tyres | No. | G. | Drivers | Rounds | Pts. | Pos. |
| 2021 | Veloce Racing | Spark Odyssey 21 | C | 5. | F | Jamie Chadwick Emma Gilmour | (1–2, 5) (3–4) | 77 | 7th |
| M | Stéphane Sarrazin Lance Woolridge | (1–4) (5) | |||||||
| 2022 | Veloce Racing | Spark Odyssey 21 | C | 5. | F | Christine GZ Hedda Hosås Molly Taylor | (1–4) (1) (5) | 18 | 10th |
| M | Kevin Hansen Lance Woolridge | (5) (1–4) | |||||||
| 2023 | Veloce Racing | Spark Odyssey 21 | C | 5. | F | Molly Taylor | (1–10) | 155 | 3rd |
| M | Kevin Hansen | (1–10) | |||||||
| 2024 | E.ON Veloce Racing / E.ON Next Veloce Racing |
Spark Odyssey 21 | C | 5. | F | Molly Taylor | (1–4) | 87 | 1st |
| M | Kevin Hansen | (1–4) | |||||||
Complete Extreme E Results
(Races in bold indicate best qualifiers; races in italics indicate fastest super sector)
W Series
| Year | Chassis | Engine | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Points | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Tatuus F3 | Alfa Romeo T-318 | H | RBR1 | RBR2 | SIL | HUN | SPA | ZAN | COA | ||||
| Jamie Chadwick |
6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 159 | 1st | ||||
| Bruna Tomaselli |
11 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 12 | 15th | ||||
| Source:[17] | ||||||||||||||
