{"id":58817,"date":"2026-08-16T18:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/formula-e-taylor-barnard-on-the-end-of-season-races-in-london\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T18:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:34:49","slug":"formula-e-taylor-barnard-on-the-end-of-season-races-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/formula-e-taylor-barnard-on-the-end-of-season-races-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E: Taylor Barnard on the end-of-season races in London"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Barnard, who’s from Norwich, says the driving bug was passed down from his father, who was a karting driver in his younger years.<\/p>\n

He rose through the ranks of British and European karting, before his talent helped him secure backing to get through Formula 3 and 2.<\/p>\n

Barnard finally secured a seat in Formula E with McLaren, and transferred to DS Penske for the current season.<\/p>\n

“It sounds very simple but trust me, it’s anything but that,” he says.<\/p>\n

“It’s super expensive, super difficult. And where my family and I’ve come from, we’ve always been on the difficult end of that journey.”<\/p>\n

The driver recalls being raised in a “very normal, working family”, and at one stage they had to re-mortgage their house so Barnard could continue his racing career.<\/p>\n

“We really did put everything on the line for me to be able to make it,” he says.<\/p>\n

“I would be lying if we’re still not stinging from when we did that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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