Maximilian Guenther kept up Stellantis’ strong start to the Berlin E-Prix by topping the second practice session at Tempelhof Airport. The Maserati MSG driver’s best time of 1m02.177s was 0.012s quicker than Lucas di Grassi, who wound up second for …
Maximilian Guenther kept up Stellantis’ strong start to the Berlin E-Prix by topping the second practice session at Tempelhof Airport.
The Maserati MSG driver’s best time of 1m02.177s was 0.012s quicker than Lucas di Grassi, who wound up second for Abt Cupra in a marked improvement from his Friday showing.
Pascal Wehrlein got his first timed laps of the weekend in, going third quickest. The TAG Heuer Porsche driver missed FP1 after stopping on-track in the first few minutes. The team told RACER it was a “technical issue involving the high voltage system” that “affected a considerable number of parts on the car.” His best time on Saturday morning was just 0.075 off first, showing the the reduced track time has had little affect on his pace.
Edoardo Mortara was fourth quickest for Mahindra, with Jean-Eric Vergne completing the top five for DS Penske.
Nick Cassidy was the highest placed Jaguar driver in sixth, ahead of Nissan’s oliver Rowland, Norman Nato of Andretti, DS Penske’s Stoffel Vandoorne, and Jehan Daruvala of Maserati, who will face a 20-place grid drop later today as a result of changing his rear gearbox.
Mitch Evans finished the session 11th in the other factory Jaguar, ahead of Porsche’s Antonio Felix da Costa, ERT’s Sergio Sette Camara, and Kelvin van der Linde, the highest-placed of the multiple stand-in drivers this weekend. He was ahead of another, Mahindra’s Jordan King, Jake Dennis, Sacha Fenestra, and the NEOM McLaren duo of Jake Hughes and Taylor Barnard, with paul Aron, Dan Ticktum, and Joel Eriksson completing the field.
Antonio Felix da Costa topped the opening practice session for the Berlin E-Prix in what was an up and down session for the TAG Heuer Porsche team. While da Costa’s 1m02.289s time on his 20th of 23 laps was enough to put him top by 0.128s, teammate …
Antonio Felix da Costa topped the opening practice session for the Berlin E-Prix in what was an up and down session for the TAG Heuer Porsche team.
While da Costa’s 1m02.289s time on his 20th of 23 laps was enough to put him top by 0.128s, teammate and championship leader Pascal Wehlein stopped on his first lap and didn’t set a time. Porsche has yet to diagnose the issue, which brought out the only red flag of the session in the opening four minutes.
Overall, 18 of the 21 cars to set a time were covered by less than a second, with just 1.167s covering the field.
Sergio Sette Camara was a fine second for the unfancied ERT, with DS Penske’s Stoffel Vandoorne one of three Stellantis-powered cars in the top five in third, the others being the Maserati MSG Racing’s Maximiliam Guenther and Jehan Daruvala.
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
Nick Cassidy was the highest-placed Jaguar runner in sixth, Jean-Eric Vergne in the other DS Penske splitting Cassidy and his Jaguar TCS Racing teammate Mitch Evans.
Dan Ticktum made it two ERTs in the top 10 by finishing ninth, ahead of Envision Racing’s Joel Eriksson, who was the highest-placed of five stand-ins necessitated by the clash with the World Endurance Championship race at Spa-Francorchamps.
Title challengers Oliver Rowland and Jake Dennis, the reigning champion, were 11th and 12th for Nissan and Andretti respectively, ahead of Paul Aron, the second stand-in at Envision. Next were the NEOM McLaren duo of Jake Hughes and Taylor Barnard, filling in for the injured Sam Bird.
Norman Nato was 16th for Andretti ahead of Kelvin van der Linde for Abt Cupra, the Mahindras of Jordan King and Edorado Mortara, with Sacha Fenestraz and Lucas di Grassi completing the runners ahead of the stricken Wehrlein for Nissan and Abt Cupra, although neither completed their fastest laps running the full 350kW of power like everyone else.
Mitch Evans is entering the second half of the Formula E season on a high note after a perfectly timed victory in the Monaco E-Prix two weeks ago. Now he’s hoping he can carry the momentum of that victory forward as he seeks a first title in the …
Mitch Evans is entering the second half of the Formula E season on a high note after a perfectly timed victory in the Monaco E-Prix two weeks ago. Now he’s hoping he can carry the momentum of that victory forward as he seeks a first title in the series.
Coming into the season, the Jaguar TCS Racing driver was a championship favorite for many, but didn’t notch up a first win until Round 8 of 16. Now, on the eve of the Berlin E-Prix, which kicks off the second half of the year, Evans is hoping that Monaco win can be a sign of things to come as he looks to put a “a really strange start to the year” behind him.
“The win came at a really good time — obviously doing it in Monaco is extra-special, but from a championship perspective, I really needed a win like that at that time of the season,” he told RACER. “I would’ve preferred it to come earlier — I was close in Sao Paulo — but I’ve just had a really strange start to the year.
“Hopefully it puts us in a good place, performance-wise, to continue our form that we had in Monaco. The tracks now are all completely different to that so we’re going to have to keep on top of (things) on the performance side.
“I’m feeling good. It was good to get that win, it takes a little bit of relief out of our bodies, but it’s now crunch time in the season so we’re shifting focus onto that.”
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
Unlike the start first half of the season, the second is comprised of only doubleheaders, with events in Shanghai, Portland, and the UK in addition to this week’s races in Berlin filling out the remaining eight rounds of the calendar. It’s not something Evans is particularly fond of.
“I’ve never really been a fan of doubleheaders,” he admitted. “I like that single event, grand prix style, when you focus on that one race and then you go onto the next one. I think it’s just a little bit fairer because if a powertrain’s dominant in one location, they get two stabs at it and sometimes it’s difficult to turn things around over the course of a doubleheader.
“We’ll have to wait and see. I hope it plays out, but if I had my own way, I’d rather have eight different locations.”
Of the four stops on the schedule left, Evans feels that there will be an even split of tracks that will benefit Jaguar’s package and that won’t, with the temporary courses playing more into the team’s hands.
“Hopefully here (Berlin) and I think London will definitely suit us,” he said. “Portland and China are probably more my concerns — those types of tracks don’t tend to suit our package as much.”
Monaco breakthrough was a relief for Evans (at left) as well as a step ahead of Jaguar TCS Racing teammate Cassidy, who figures to be among his strongest rivals in the title race. Sam Bagnall/Motorsport Images
Another thing Evans will have to juggle in the championship run-in is his relationship with teammate Nick Cassidy. After the Monaco race, Evans hailed Cassidy, saying “I really appreciate the team player he was today.” But with both still firmly in the championship fight, could it lead to an intra-team conflict? Evans doesn’t think so.
“At this time of the season we’re both in with a shot of the title so it’s too early to be putting any eggs in the one basket,” he said. “Hopefully we both are in with a good shot come London, but it will be up to me and him to manage and the team to manage. But as long as it’s fair between both of us, if one of us is out of contention come the end, you kind of expect some sort of help.
Andretti Global has extended its partnership with Porsche in Formula E by two years, with the German brand to continue supplying it through the 2025-26 season. The two aligned at the start of the GEN3 era last season, and secured the drivers’ title …
Andretti Global has extended its partnership with Porsche in Formula E by two years, with the German brand to continue supplying it through the 2025-26 season.
The two aligned at the start of the GEN3 era last season, and secured the drivers’ title with Jake Dennis, as well as three race wins and 15 podium finishes over the last season-and-a-half — all courtesy of Dennis (pictured above). The British driver remains a title contender this season, currently sitting 13 points behind Porsche factory driver Pascal Wehrlein, who tops the standings.
“It’s an exciting time to be a part of Formula E and we feel confident in our position in the series, which is due in large part to our partnership with Porsche,” said Michael Andretti. “From day one our goal has been to win races and championships, and Porsche has helped us achieve both since joining forces in Season 9. With all the success we’ve shared with the GEN3 car, I can’t wait to see what we can do together in the GEN3 Evo era.”
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
With the two organizations enjoying a strong and successful partnership in Formula E over the last two years, Andretti team principal Roger Griffiths said “there was never any doubt” that the deal would be extended.
“We are very pleased to announce the extension of the Andretti and Porsche agreement to work together for the next two seasons,” he said. “There was never any doubt in our mind about who we’d want to be working with. We have had a very special relationship with Porsche Motorsport, both on and off the track, and we have seen an awful lot of success together. Hopefully, we can share more success in the future.”
Porsche’s Thomas Laudenbach added that the brand was “obviously very pleased” to renew with Andretti.
“The Andretti name is one of the most renowned in global motorsports, so the contract extension is of particular importance to us,” said Laudenbach, vice president of Porsche Motorsport. “Andretti and the Porsche factory team work together in many areas in Formula E. We drive each other to peak performances.
“The standings at the halfway mark are proof for this: both teams find themselves in the top three, and so do two of the four drivers. Plus, together we are leading the manufacturers’ trophy for Porsche.”
The full lineup for Formula E’s annual rookie test has been set, with each of the 11 teams scheduled to field two drivers in a day of running following the Berlin E-Prix. The full day test at Tempelhof Airport comes after an initial rookie practice …
The full lineup for Formula E’s annual rookie test has been set, with each of the 11 teams scheduled to field two drivers in a day of running following the Berlin E-Prix.
The full day test at Tempelhof Airport comes after an initial rookie practice session ahead of the Misano E-Prix last month, and features drivers that have yet to contest a single Formula E race. The test is one of six official test days over the course of the season, and is one of the two that each team must designate for rookie running.
Andretti will field official reserve Zane Maloney and American youngster Jak Crawford in the test. For Maloney, who is also a reserve driver for the Kick Sauber Formula 1 team, it will be his fifth outing behind the wheel of a Formula E car for the team, while it will be Aston Martin junior Crawford’s debut.
DS Penske will be another team combining a Formula E debutant with someone with previous experience. Formula 3 race winner Jonny Edgar will make his testing bow for the team, while Ferrari Formula 1 reserve Robert Schwartzman will return to the cockpit after driving for the team in the rookie practice session at the Misano E-Prix.
Alice Powell will return to the Envision Racing fold in Berlin, the W Series race winner having previously tested Formula E machinery in Marrakesh and Valencia during the GEN2 era, but Berlin will mark her first full day in a Formula E car. She will be joined by Dries Vanthoor, who will be another driver getting his first taste of Formula E.
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
Highly rated Mercedes F1 junior Frederik Vesti will drive for Mahindra alongside its designated reserve driver Kush Maini, while Nissan will give another outing to Caio Collet after his debut in the Misano rookie free practice session, and he will be joined by F3 race winner and Alpine Academy member Gabriele Mini.
Like Nissan, ERT has opted for one driver with no previous Formula E seat time and one who drove at Misano. F1 Academy champion Marta Garcia will make her first Formula E appearance for the team, while Mikel Azcona will return to the cockpit after his run out in Italy.
NEOM McLaren has opted for junior driver Ugo Ugochukwu, and McLaren GT3 racer Gregoire Saucy. The team topped the rookie practice session at Misano with reserve Taylor Barnard, who won’t be in action on Monday because after making his race debut in Monaco in place of the injured Sam Bird, he will also be racing on Saturday and Sunday and is therefore no longer eligible.
TAG Heuer Porsche test and reserve driver Thomas Preining will be in action for the German team, having previously driven for it in the 2020 rookie test in Marrakesh. He will be joined by Formula 2 racer Dennis Hauger.
Another team running on home soil, Abt Cupra, will field Tim Tramnitz once again after he drove at Misano. DTM racer Ricardo Feller will also drive for the team.
Jaguar TCS Racing will field Sheldon van der Linde again, having run him at both last year’s rookie test in Berlin, and the rookie session at Misano earlier this season. The 2022 DTM champion will be joined by Formula 2 race winner Enzo Fittipaldi, following in the footsteps of his brother Pietro who twice drove in Formula E rookie tests — in 2018 and ’19, the former also with Jaguar.
Completing the rookie test lineup will be Felipe Drugovich and Nico Pino driving for Maserati MSG Racing. 2022 Formula 2 champion and current Aston Martin F1 test and reserve driver Drugovich was the pacesetter in last year’s rookie test, going more than a tenth quicker than anybody else on a day where he also racked up 99 laps.
Pino, meanwhile, recently joined Maserati owner Stellantis’ new young driver program. He races in the LMGT3 class of the World Endurance Championship with United Autosports and finished on the podium in the LMP2 class in last year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Maserati MSG Racing has announced that Cyril Blais will assume the role of deputy team principal. The news comes ahead of this weekend’s Berlin E-Prix double header, and will see Blais report to managing partner Jose M Aznar Botella, who has been …
Maserati MSG Racing has announced that Cyril Blais will assume the role of deputy team principal.
The news comes ahead of this weekend’s Berlin E-Prix double header, and will see Blais report to managing partner Jose M Aznar Botella, who has been acting team principal since the pre-season exit of James Rossiter.
“Being promoted to the position of deputy team principal is a huge honor, and I would like to thank Scott and José for entrusting me with this opportunity,” said Blais. “While I know that the role will present a fresh challenge, it’s a chance that I’m very excited about. Since joining the team ahead of Season 8, I’ve witnessed our evolution and transformation as an organization first-hand, and I’m looking forward to building upon our existing foundations to grow even further in the future.
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
“After making a strong start to 2024 with a win in Tokyo and a podium at Misano, the level of motivation, determination, and ambition within the team is at an all-time high, and although my promotion has arrived during the season, it won’t change my level of focus or responsibilities on the technical side. I will continue to push hard so we can achieve the best results possible in the second half of the season, and we’re all looking forward to getting back out on track this weekend.”
Blais was formerly the technical director of Arden Motorsport’s Formula 2 and Formula 3 efforts before joining Maserati when it was then known as Venturi Racing in 2021.
“I remember when Cyril joined our team as a race engineer in Season 8. Very early on, his natural leadership qualities shined through from his side of the garage, and since then, he’s played an integral role in shaping our technical structure, culture, and strong sense of team spirit and identity,” said Botella.
“With significant knowledge of not just Formula E but motorsport as a whole, Cyril is the perfect fit as deputy team principal, and after seeing the impact he’s made on our whole organisation – especially since 2023 – promoting him to this position was a natural, simple, and very straightforward decision. Cyril has earned this chance through hard work and demonstrating a clear ability to unite the team.
The team has also confirmed the appointments of Berengere Quaiz as chief financial officer, and James Hughes Mulligan as commercial director.
“With Cyril’s promotion and the new additions to the team in Bérengère and James, we have strengthened key areas within our organization in order to deliver the best possible performance on and off the track,” added Botella.
Over the last decade every kind of motorsport imaginable has been electrified. Circuits, off-road, four wheels and two, and even on water – a championship in the air is being worked on, too. Leading the group is Alejandro Agag’s flagship trio of …
Over the last decade every kind of motorsport imaginable has been electrified. Circuits, off-road, four wheels and two, and even on water – a championship in the air is being worked on, too.
Leading the group is Alejandro Agag’s flagship trio of Formula E, Extreme E, and the E1 boat racing series. The list of people who’ve sampled any two of the three is a short one – Stephane Sarazzin raced in both Formula E and Extreme E, while Adrien Tambay has driven both, and Timmy Hansen and Catie Munnings run full schedules in both Extreme E and E1.
But last month Munnings became the first person to experience all three when she completed a brief test of Formula E’s GEN3 car at the Misano E-Prix. The Brit has spent her entire career in the rallying and off-road racing sphere, never once looking at circuit racing, so for her the outing was “a completely new experience”.
“I’ve driven a Formula 3 car before for some filming, but I’ve never driven any other kind of single seater because I never really did track racing,” she tells RACER. “I’m glad that I’d driven the Formula 3 car so I had something to compare it to, though.
“I thought they might do a bit of an introductory phase but it was literally right in at the deep end,” she adds. “The power was turned right up – I think we were on 350 kW, which is what maximum power is.”
Munnings swapped notes with former Formula E driver Karun Chandhok. Andretti Formula E
Munnings is, of course, no stranger to electric race cars, but having that full helping of the Formula E car’s power under her right foot was eye-opening, while the work her left foot had to do also took her by surprise.
“The first thing that I thought was that it just kept accelerating, it didn’t plateau, which was really strange for me and it was just so cool,” she says. “It was incredible acceleration.
“I was obviously very careful not to bin it, but I think the biggest thing that felt funny was the regen braking, because the feedback through the brake pedal was really unique. I was speaking to Karun (Chandhok) afterwards, obviously he’s raced in Formula E, and was telling me that you have a phase where you kind of feel the regen first and then you have to go through that to get the hydraulic brake to work, and obviously it doesn’t have hydraulic brakes on the rear so that was a really unique feeling.
But while the acceleration and the regen were standout points, the car itself wasn’t so intimidating that she couldn’t fully get to grips with it in her short time behind the wheel.
“I think the biggest thing as well was how predictable it was to drive in the corners. It wasn’t as twitchy as the Formula 3 car that I’d driven,” she notes. “It was very smooth on the throttle application, and the handling as well. It was more similar to driving an electric road car in that sense – you got good feedback from it and you were in control of everything.”
Munnings in a single seater was an unfamiliar sight – and perhaps one that won’t be seen again. Andretti Formula E
Munnings isn’t afraid to try something out of her wheelhouse. Her flirtation with Formula E came after she swapped sand for sea by entering the E1 series with Extreme E teammate Timmy Hansen earlier this year.
“Timmy was convinced before I was – we were both asked to go into the driver program and we were put through our powerboat training and then the Superlicense for cockpit racing,” she says. “Timmy went ahead and did the training and came back to me and said “Catie you’ve got to do it, it’s just like driving a car off road”.
“When you get a feeling for the grip of the water, it’s no different, and they were comparing the lap times between motorsport drivers and powerboat racers, and Timmy being Timmy was right up at the top instantly, and I thought it was doable.”
Munnings adds that controlling the E1 boat was, unusually, much like a car, and that the seasoned powerboat racers she competes alongside have had to adapt a fair bit since the controls are the opposite to what they’re used to.
“From that side, that was kind of what convinced me and I just took it step by step,” she says. “I wanted to check that I could be competitive and then it turned out that there was a team that wanted to go with me and Timmy because they felt that we worked quite well together and we know each other well so, going into a new championship, was a good thing from the beginning.”
But while E1 remains a solid side gig, Munnings isn’t eyeing a further expansion into Formula E, suggesting that it’s Hansen – who raced against F1 drivers Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat, as well as current Formula E racers Robin Frijns and Stoffel Vandoorne in Formula BMW and Formula Renault – who’s more likely to be tempted.
“We always joke about Timmy doing it because he started in single-seaters and he used to race against some of the guys that are now racing in it,” she says. “I always think he’d be a bit more suited to it than I am, I’ve always been off-road.
“It was an amazing experience and the car felt incredible to drive. I just never delved into the circuit racing scene really, I think the closest I got was with rallycross. As we all know, I probably say yes to everything, so never say never, but I think for now my skillset is probably more on the sand and jumps of the motorsport world.”
And that leaves Extreme E. It’s been a while since the season-opener in Saudi Arabia in the third week of February, and the next race of the season – at a location which will be announced imminently – remains a distant thought too, but Munnings is hugely positive about her Andretti team’s start to the season.
Munnings started the Extreme E season strongly with Andretti back in February. Andrew Ferraro/Extreme E
Munnings and Hansen won the Redemption Race in Round 1 before finishing second in Round 2, with a qualifying heat win in their back pocket, too. It marked a massive turnaround for the team which ended the 2023 campaign with a car-killing crash in the penultimate round, followed by a withdrawal from the season-closer.
“I think we’re feeling like the best we’ve felt in a long time, to be honest,” she says, sounding the most upbeat she has about Extreme E for some time. “There was a really good atmosphere in Saudi, we had a really good performance, everything kind of came together.
“We’ve had the ingredients for it the whole of last year, it was just one of those years for us – there was just lots of little things that weren’t pulling together for a result, so I think to have had a second place and to be very close to first place at the finish line was really cool. We got some good points for the championship. I think it always sets the tone when you start a season like that.
“Obviously coming into the next round, I think we’re feeling good. I’m really enjoying being a part of the championship at the minute.”
NEOM McLaren has confirmed its lineup for the Formula E rookie test following the Berlin E-Prix next week, with Ugo Ugochukwu and Grégoire Saucy both getting outings for the team. New Yorker Ugochukwu (pictured above) has been a member of McLaren’s …
NEOM McLaren has confirmed its lineup for the Formula E rookie test following the Berlin E-Prix next week, with Ugo Ugochukwu and Grégoire Saucy both getting outings for the team.
New Yorker Ugochukwu (pictured above) has been a member of McLaren’s driver development program since 2021 amid a stellar karting career, and is this year dovetailing a full Formula Regional European Championship campaign with select events in the GB3 championship. He’s already sampled Formula E in the virtual world, on the simulator at the McLaren Technology Centre, but this will mark his first time in the real car.
“I’m looking forward to the Berlin Rookie Test in May with the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team,” he said. “It’s an amazing opportunity to take the Nissan e-4ORCE 04 to track and I’m grateful to be given this chance through the McLaren Driver Development program. I’m excited to learn and develop my driving further with a new category of car.
“I’ll be working closely with the great team at Bicester and MTC in the build-up, getting prepared for the test and making sure I’m as prepared as possible to help the team.”
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
Swiss driver Saucy was another karting prodigy, who won the Formula Regional championship in 2021, and now races in the World Endurance Championship for the McLaren-aligned United Autosports team. Like Ugochukwu, he’s had time in McLaren’s simulator, but the Berlin test will be his first time in a Formula E car for real, and it will mark his return to single-seaters after his transition to sports car racing.
“I’m really excited to start this new challenge,” he said. “I’ve been driving single-seater cars up until last year, before changing direction for this season, competing in GT3 and LMP2, so it will be nice to step into a single-seater again.
“I want to thank the NEOM McLaren team for this opportunity. I’m looking forward to discovering Formula E first hand. See you in Berlin.”
Taylor Barnard will continue to race for NEOM McLaren at next week’s Berlin E-Prix doubleheader, with Sam Bird still ruled out by injury. Bird crashed at Sainte Devote in the opening practice session for the Monaco E-Prix, with subsequent CT scans …
Taylor Barnard will continue to race for NEOM McLaren at next week’s Berlin E-Prix doubleheader, with Sam Bird still ruled out by injury.
Bird crashed at Sainte Devote in the opening practice session for the Monaco E-Prix, with subsequent CT scans and x-rays confirming a broken bone in his left hand. He has since undergone successful surgery upon his return to the UK, and McLaren says “Sam and the team can now look forward to a speedy recovery and a return to racing soon.”
McLaren reserve Barnard immediately stepped in for Bird in Monaco where he finished 14th after starting from the back of the grid.
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
“We’re very pleased to report positive progress on Sam’s recovery, with a successful operation on his hand supporting his journey back into the car,” said McLaren team principal Ian James. “Taylor did a stellar job in his last-minute call-up in Monaco, as did the team, who provided him with great support and guidance throughout. He will now be able to build on that experience, while Sam works on his recovery — with the team’s full support.
“We’re looking forward to having Sam back in the car soon.”
Barnard’s race appearances mean that he is no longer eligible for the rookie test that will follow the Berlin E-Prix.
Mercedes F1 junior driver Frederik Vesti will join Mahindra for the upcoming Formula E rookie test in Berlin. The 2023 Formula 2 runner-up will join the team’s reserve driver Kush Maini at the test which will take place on May 13, after the Berlin …
Mercedes F1 junior driver Frederik Vesti will join Mahindra for the upcoming Formula E rookie test in Berlin.
The 2023 Formula 2 runner-up will join the team’s reserve driver Kush Maini at the test which will take place on May 13, after the Berlin E-Prix doubleheader at Tempelhof Airport.
“First of all, I’d like to say a big thank you to Fred (Bertrand, Mahindra team principal) for giving me this opportunity. It’s a great chance to test, and to prove myself as a rookie in a new championship,” said Vesti. “It’s an amazing opportunity to learn, which is only going to help me grow as a driver. It’s what motivates me, I’m really looking forward to trying the GEN3 Formula E car, which I understand is quite a challenge.
[lawrence-auto-related count=3 category=1394]
“That’s probably what I like most about Formula E, it is challenging and the fact it’s a competitive World Championship that attracts some of the best drivers – and teams – is a great platform for me.
“I’ve finished up my preparations together with the team, so now I’m counting down the days until Berlin!”
Vesti, who won the hotly-contested Formula Regional European Championship in 2019 and is set to compete in the European Le Mans series this season in the LMP2 class with Cool Racing, has already been to Mahindra Racing’s headquarters in Banbury in the UK to prepare for the test.
“We’re delighted to welcome Frederik to the team for the Berlin Rookie Test,” said Bertrand. “This event is important for the team, in order to continue our testing programme and development work, but there is an equal focus on giving new talent the opportunity to experience the world of Formula E.
“He’s young, enthusiastic, and very quick – all the right traits for us to give him a chance in the car. His record in the junior categories speaks for itself.
“I’m confident that, with a driver of Frederik’s abilities and experience, and together with Kush, we will be able to have a productive test and keep the team moving forward from there.”
