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BITNILE.COM Grand Prix of Portland race weekend begins Friday with ten total races on tap

PORTLAND, Ore. (Aug. 30, 2023) - Championship chases across multiple series will be decided at Portland International Raceway (PIR) this weekend at the BITNILE.COM Grand Prix of Portland, Sept. 1-3. The NTT INDYCAR SERIES title is likely one of them as points leader Alex Palou brings a 74-point lead into the season’s penultimate race in the Rose City. 

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Caleb Canfield’s first three words were ‘car,’ ‘tire’ and ‘go.’ ‘Mama’ came fourth. 

Caleb’s parents clearly knew their young son loved cars from the very start, but it wasn’t until 2021 when the family first participated in the Rookie Racers program at Portland International Raceway that their eyes were opened to a world of possibility. 

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Single Day tickets go on sale to the public tomorrow at 10 a.m. PT

PORTLAND, Ore. (Aug. 1, 2023) – BITNILE.COM has been announced as the title sponsor of the annual NTT INDYCAR SERIES event at Portland International Raceway (PIR), Sept. 1-3, 2023. The Labor Day weekend motorsport festival headlined by the 110-lap penultimate race of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season will be called the BITNILE.COM Grand Prix of Portland.

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• Nick Cassidy secures the Teams’ title for Envision Racing in a shootout with manufacturer team Jaguar TCS Racing after starting the race level on points
• Cassidy secures emphatic win in final race of Season 9 in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship with pole position, fastest lap and lights-to-flag win
• Mitch Evans finishes second, with Drivers’ World Champion Jake Dennis in third
• Two-time Academy Award winning actor Christoph Waltz and rapper, singer and fashion designer Jaden Smith among celebrities at the Formula E season finale

LONDON, UK. Sun. 30 Jul. 2023 – Nick Cassidy led all the way in a rain-soaked final race of the Formula E season in London to claim the Teams’ World Championship title for Envision Racing, edging out Mitch Evans and Jaguar TCS Racing who finished second in the race and the Teams’ title fight.

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• Jake Dennis wins ABB FIA Formula E World Championship title, the first British driver to win a world title on home soil, with second place finish in London
• Mitch Evans claims race win for Jaguar TCS Racing, taking the Teams’ World Championship to the last race
• Sébastien Buemi claims third but a clash Envision Racing teammate ended Cassidy’s title bid

LONDON, UK. Sat. 29 Jul. 2023 – Second place for Jake Dennis in an eventful Hankook London E-Prix was enough to win the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship with a race to spare, becoming the first British driver to claim a world title at home.

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• Formula E driver Jake Hughes set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the fastest speed achieved by a vehicle indoors reaching 218.71km/h (135.9 mph), smashing the old record of 165.2km/h (102.65 mph) by more than 50 km/h (33 mph)
• Record-breaking GENBETA car, a new innovation and development programme created by Formula E and the FIA using the all-electric GEN3 race car with 400kW of power and modifications by championship partners SABIC and Hankook, is pushed to the limit on the unique indoor and outdoor race track at ExCeL London events arena
• NEOM McLaren Formula E Team driver Hughes and Lucas di Grassi, Mahindra Racing team, went head-to-head in Formula E’s popular ‘Duels’ qualifying format to set the highest speed with both drivers breaking the old world record eight times on a 346-metre straight section of indoor race track
• GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title set on the track where the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will be won this weekend at the climax of Formula E’s most dramatic season yet

LONDON, UK. Fri. 28 Jul. 2023: A revolutionary Formula E electric race car, the GENBETA, has smashed the indoor landspeed world record by more than 50 km/h reaching a top speed of more than 218km/h inside a building in London.

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• Most dramatic season in Formula E history climaxes this weekend with Rounds 15 and 16 on the unique outdoor and indoor race track constructed at ExCeL London events arena
• Jake Dennis (Avalanche Andretti Formula E Team) could claim the Drivers’ World Championship title in front of home fans this Saturday in the first race of the 2023 Hankook London E-Prix double-header
• The Brit extended his standings lead after disaster hit his closest rivals – Nick Cassidy (Envision Racing) and Mitch Evans (Jaguar TCS Racing) – who clashed in the last race in Rome, proving anything can happen in Formula E
• Teams’ World Championship expected to go to the final race as TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team and Jaguar TCS Racing chase Envision Racing

LONDON, UK. Tues. 25 Jul. 2023: Britain’s Jake Dennis is on the brink of claiming his first world championship title as the Avalanche Andretti Formula E team driver goes into the final two races of the Formula E season in front of home fans on a track where he has won twice before.

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• Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer extends its original five-year commitment by two years to the end of Season 12 in 2026
• Porsche confirms it will continue to play active role in developing the fourth-generation Formula E race car entering the championship from Season 13
• Current Season 9 is most successful yet with four wins for TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team drivers Pascal Wehrlein and António Félix da Costa
• Jake Dennis, racing for first-time Porsche customer team, Avalanche Andretti, is favourite to win the world championship title this weekend in the 2023 Hankook London E-Prix double-header

STUTTGART, Ger. & LONDON, UK. Mon. 24 Jul. 2023 – Porsche and Formula E today announced the sports car manufacturer has extended its involvement in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship through Season 12 in 2025/2026.

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• Jake Dennis drives a brilliant race, avoiding another spectacular crash, to deliver the first GEN3 grand slam and lead every lap to victory
• Mitch Evans goes airborne to crash out of the race, seriously damaging his title ambitions while denting Nick Cassidy’s bid for title glory
• Norman Nato claims impressive second place while Sam Bird returns from being at the centre of yesterday’s shocking shunt to finish third

ROME, Italy. Sun. 16 Jul. 2023 – Jake Dennis (Avalanche Andretti Formula E team) created Formula E history in the second race of the Hankook Rome E-Prix to reclaim the lead in the fight for the world title with just two races remaining. The Briton conquered every opponent in Rome on his way to claiming the first grand slam of the GEN3 era: Julius Bär Pole Position, TAG Heuer Fastest Lap and the race win while leading every lap of the race.

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