For the most part, the 2016/17 Formula E season will not be fought out on circuits anything like Donington Park. So drawing conclusions from the final days of testing before the series' Hong Kong opener on October 9 is tricky.
That said, there were insights into the competitive order, what technological changes have occurred between campaigns and the fresh challenges teams are facing.
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The driver who can wreck F1's "super exciting" 2020 silly season Most of the top drivers in Formula 1 are facing intriguing 2020s. If things go one way, there could be a much-changed grid in '21. But, as Scott Mitchell explains in his final Autosport column, that's only if one racer doesn't get everything right this season F1
The major lesson Ricciardo learned in Renault's poor 2019 Daniel Ricciardo's decision to give up a race-winning car at Red Bull raised eyebrows in the summer of 2018 and his first season with Renault indeed passed without a podium. Nevertheless, he learned a vital lesson from a trying campaign F1
Why Honda's true progress will only be seen in F1 2020 Honda and Red Bull joined forces in Formula 1 2019 - a year on from the former's high-profile split from McLaren. There were wins, but no title challenge. Here we explain why that was never the expectation F1
The high-pressure job Leclerc completed in 2019 Charles Leclerc started his first season at Ferrari knowing the team expected Sebastian Vettel to lead its title challenge. But Leclerc made it his mission to change that view, which he did, vanquishing his world champion team-mate in the process F1
The keys to KTM's meteoric rise in MotoGP KTM has dominated every motorsport discipline it has entered throughout its history, but faced an entirely new challenge in MotoGP. Five years on, with huge investment in personnel and technology, here's how the Austrian brand has reached the summit MotoGP
How an overlooked F1 talent found his true calling Formula E's six-race Berlin finale was billed as the most intense in motorsport history, and expected to go down to the wire in true FE style. But it was decided two races early, for the first time ever, as one driver showed his F1 rejection hadn't defined him FE
How F1's COVID goodwill broke apart on its birthday weekend When Formula 1 was forced into hibernation by the coronavirus pandemic, teams came together in unprecedented fashion. The mudslinging that occurred off-track last weekend at Silverstone suggests such cooperation won't be seen again for a while F1
Ask Tim: Why the FIA was right and wrong on Racing Point Following an eventful weekend on and off the track at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, Autosport's technical expert answers your questions on the Racing Point controversy, Sebastian Vettel's continued poor form and a missing past phenomenon F1
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