Oliver Rowland enters spherical 5 of the 2022/23 ABB FIA Components E World Championship having lastly claimed a factors end, with the British driver having endured some woeful luck to date in Season 9.
The Mahindra Racing driver completed sixth on the group’s house race in Hyderabad, but would’ve had a podium had he not been demoted locations for exceeding monitor limits. However, it offers him one thing to construct on this weekend on the inaugural Cape City E-Prix, with him having the idea that the group “have the tempo to battle on the entrance”.
It’s been an odd begin to the season for Mahindra, with the automobile having appeared robust in Mexico Metropolis earlier than falling in direction of the again in Diriyah; nonetheless, they actually made amends at their house occasion.
Provided that he missed out on a podium on account of a time penalty, Rowland enters this weekend in South Africa with “unfinished enterprise”, giving him one thing to “purpose” for.
“I actually need to preserve the momentum stepping into Cape City after a profitable weekend in Hyderabad. It was good to lastly get some factors on the board, however I nonetheless really feel like there’s unfinished enterprise as getting pinged for monitor limits meant I misplaced out on the potential for a podium in India. At the very least we all know we’ve the tempo to battle on the entrance, which is one thing we purpose to do that weekend. We often go properly at new circuits in order that’s one thing that stands in our favour.”
“Everyone seems to be on a degree taking part in discipline as soon as once more” – Lucas di Grassi
While Rowland loved a superb race in Hyderabad, Lucas di Grassi couldn’t fairly declare a factors end on the group’s first house race in Components E, after ending fourteenth.
Di Grassi’s solely factors end this season remains to be his podium on the season opener, a race he additionally claimed pole for. Issues simply haven’t clicked for the previous Champion since his mega Mexico Metropolis efficiency, with the Brazilian having additionally struggled in qualifying. With this weekend being one other new venue, although, the Components E veteran does enter the occasion “on a degree taking part in discipline”, that means that completely something may occur.
The thirty-eight year-old will likely be concentrating on factors this weekend to maneuver him up from tenth within the Drivers’ Championship, at a circuit he charges as “unbelievable” based-off the simulator work he’s finished forward of the weekend.
“I used to be very pleased for the group that they scored some good factors at their house race in Hyderabad. I used to be unlucky to not fairly get into the factors after we had been operating properly through the early phases of the race, however we look forward to Cape City now. It’s one other new monitor for the group and the entire championship so everyone seems to be on a degree taking part in discipline as soon as once more like in Hyderabad. Having been on the simulator, the monitor feels unbelievable so I can’t wait to get out on it for actual.”
