Nick Cassidy works around strategy to win Race 1 in Formula E finale in London EPrix, ahead of Nyck de Vries and Pascal Wehrlein.
Polesitter Evans led the pack away and through the opening left-right after a strong start with de Vries chopping across to defend from Wehrlein. Edo Mortara and Maximilian Guenther came blows as the cars made their exit out of the Excel beneath the Docklands Light Railway, with the latter coming off worst with suspension damage to his front-right corner – enforcing a spell under the Safety Car for the recovery of his DS PENSKE.
Lap 4 and we were green once again with Evans heading de Vries, Wehrlein, Cassidy, Ticktum and Mortara. The PIT BOOST window opened around Lap 17 with, Nick Cassidy able to make up ground from P5 at the outside to a net lead on Lap 20 as the stops began to shake out.
De Vries and Wehrlein aimed to overcut Cassidy and the rest with early ATTACK MODE deployments and late stops on Lap 25 – which proved a strong call as de Vries emerged from the pit lane ahead of the Jaguar driver and Wehrlein filtering into third ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne and Sam Bird.
Lap 28 saw Nick Cassidy make use of his second ATTACK to retake P1 from de Vries out of the final turn on Lap 27. Contact saw Ticktum clip Mitch Evans into a spin and slipping out of the points on Lap 29 before the CUPRA KIRO driver found himself in trouble with an overambitious move at Turn 9 saw the Brit in the wall and out of the race as he tried to make amends for that earlier coming-together.
A Safety Car was required for the recovery of Ticktum’s car. Lap 35 saw the race go gree once again with Cassidy leading the pack away – de Vries, Wehrlein, Vandoorne, Dennis, Vergne, Mortara, Bird, Frijns and Nato the top 10. From there, he was able to seal the deal and get things done – on Jaguar Team Principal James Barclay’s final race weekend, as well as his swansong for Jaguar.
Result: https://x.com/MsportXtra/status/1949152356114817496
Final (Dennis drops to P8 from P5, as Vergne, Mortara and Frijns move up): https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/results?season=4e287a6d-e2da-471a-9c8a-01141d6a1819&race=22fb25ba-9ef6-4d13-9b09-2c87000aeaba&tab=race
[The story is as per press release]
