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Nissan e.dams has picked Formula 2 frontrunner Alexander Albon for its debut Formula E season, alongside 2015/16 champion Sebastien Buemi. Albon has already had an FE test with the team when it was running as Renault’s works operation. The 22-year-old Anglo-thai is third in the F2 standings with e.dams’ nonelectric arm DAMS… Super GT frontrunner and Nissan driver Jann Mardenborough will make his first Blancpain GT Series start in nearly three years at this weekend’s Endurance title decider at Barcelona. Mardenborough has been drafted in as a replacement for the injured Lucas Ordonez by RJN Motorsport, who broke his shoulder in a cycling accident… G-drive ORECA pair Roman Rusinov and Antonio Pizzitola secured the European Le Mans Series title with a round to spare despite a nightmare race at Spa. The duo, driving with part-time team-mate Jean-eric Vergne last weekend, secured the championship despite finishing outside the top 10 and the car incurring a two-minute stop-go penalty that it could not serve… The latest hydrogenpowered Greengt prototype has been demonstrated at last weekend’s Spa European Le Mans Series round as part of an initiative to encourage fuel-cell technology. Greengt’s experimental LMP2HG led the formation lap at the Spa 4 Hours. It also took to the track on Saturday to mark the launch of the Mission H24 drive by the Franco-swiss group and Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’ouest… Max Fewtrell took maximum points and two wins from the latest round of the Formula Renault Eurocup series at Hockenheim. The Brit now leads the standings by 30.5 points from Yifei Ye… Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch climbed from last on the grid to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond, booking his place in the second round of the playoffs. This was despite being sent to the back of the grid because his team repaired damage picked up in qualifying.