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Time of India
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Pascal Wehrlein on second place in Shanghai: 'First time I felt like we were very competitive in the wet'
Image credit: Pascal Wehrlein/Instagram TAG Heuer Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein gained no points on Day 1 of the Shanghai E-Prix last weekend. However, the Formula E driver was able to turn the tables in a rainy race the next day and claim second place on the podium. After the race, he confirmed that the result made him realise they were actually competitive on a wet track. Pascal Wehrlein on winning in Shanghai Pascal Wehrlein secured second place in the Round 11 race in Shanghai, with his teammate Antonio Felix Da Costa joining him on the podium in third. The two had started in the same positions on the grid but in reverse order. It was, nevertheless, a double gain for Porsche on Sunday. Talking about the Round 11 race, Wehrlein said, 'Very tricky conditions especially in the beginning, I think it got a little bit better towards the end, but our pace was good. Not good enough for P1, but quite far ahead of the guys behind. Personally I'm very happy about the result today because today was the first time that I felt like we were very competitive in the wet, which wasn't the case in Tokyo and Monaco. I think we've found a good way there and in the end a happy ending for us. ' The two also scored double podiums at the Mexico E-Prix and then again in Miami, where Wehrlein won. He earned another podium at the Tokyo E-Prix. With such a strong performance this year, Wehrlein currently holds second place in the Formula E Driver Standings with 103 points. TAG Heuer Porsche gained big in Shanghai 'It was a very strong result today in very tricky and challenging wet conditions,' Porsche Formula E boss Florian Modlinger stated after the double podium in Round 11. The 34 points earned from the results, plus the fastest lap by Wehrlein, also promoted Porsche to the top of the Teams' World Championship—by a single point ahead of Nissan. 'We are really happy with these points and regaining the lead in the Teams' Championship by a single point. It will be a very hard fight to the end of the year. Overall – with three Porsche in the top six with Nico Mueller – we can be very happy,' Modlinger added. Also Read: Nick Cassidy on winning Round 11 race at Shanghai E-Prix: 'It feels like we've been waiting a long time' Wehrlein and Da Costa will now be eyeing more such wins, with five more races remaining before the Formula E season wraps up for the year. The next race is in Jakarta on June 21.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Time of India
Shanghai E-Prix 2025 Round 11 results: Nick Cassidy wins, Porsche duo Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Da Costa take 2nd and 3rd spot
Image credit: Nick Cassidy/Instagram Jaguar TCS Racing's Nick Cassidy had won the pole in the Round 11 Qualifying race in Shanghai on Sunday and managed to maintain the lead in every lap of the final race to lay his claim to the winner's trophy. This is Cassidy's first win of the season as it rained on the second day of the Shanghai E-Prix. Tag Heuer Porsche had a double win on Sunday with Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix Da Costa taking second and third spots on the podium, respectively. Wehrlein also recorded the fastest lap of Round 11. Shanghai E-Prix Round 11 results Nick Cassidy's win was a first lights-to-flag victory of the GEN3 Evo era and a return to the top step for the New Zealander. As soon as he crossed the finish line, he took a sigh of relief on the radio and said, 'I've been waiting for this day.' Tag Heuer Porsche's double podium spots on Sunday came a day after DS Penske dominated the podium on Saturday with the drivers taking first and second spot in Round 10. Meanwhile, Maserati MSG Racing driver Jake Hughes ended fourth. DS Penske's Jean-Eric Vergne who got the second spot on the podium in the Round 10 race, ended fifth. Andretti driver Nico Mueller finished sixth. Maserati MSG Racing driver Stoffel Vandoorne finished seventh despite pirouetting two laps from the chequered flag. The difficult conditions at the rain soaked Shanghai International Circuit caught out a number of other drivers including Jake Dennis, Nyck de Vries, Dan Ticktum and Sam Bird with standing water significant in spots around the circuit throughout the race. Despite that, 21 of the 22 cars managed to make it to the end of the race. The Round 11 race brought about a significant change in the Formula E Driver Standings. Wehrlein's podium reduced the gap between him and Oliver Rowland who tops the Standings with 171 points. Wehrlein is now at 103 points in the second positions. Da Costa is in third with 88 points. Also Read: Shanghai E-Prix 2025: DS celebrates double victory as Maximilian Gunther takes first, Jean-Eric Vergne second in Round 10, Taylor Barnard claims third Porsche retakes the top spot in the FIA Teams' World Championship running from Nissan, while Nissan leads Porsche in the FIA Manufacturers' World Championship standings.
Hans India
4 days ago
- Automotive
- Hans India
Cassidy ends winless run in rain-hit Shanghai E-Prix
Nick Cassidy ended a year-long wait for victory with a commanding drive in treacherous conditions to win the second race of the 2025 Shanghai E-Prix, as Formula E's typically close racing gave way to cautious control in the wet. The Jaguar driver won from pole position in a race that started under the Safety Car following torrential rain that had disrupted both third practice and qualifying. Visibility and grip at the Shanghai International Circuit were at a premium throughout the day, and the race's opening six laps were neutralised before a rolling start finally released the field. That rolling start created immediate separation, and the frantic, wheel-to-wheel action seen on Saturday was nowhere to be found. Whereas the previous race in Shanghai had seen second to 12th covered by just three seconds, the day's contest told a different story. Cassidy finished 13 seconds clear of Antonio Felix da Costa in third, with Pascal Wehrlein slotting into second to deliver a double podium for Porsche, reports Xinhua. The lack of energy saving - made unnecessary by the low-speed opening laps and the race's overall shortened duration - turned the event into a flat-out sprint. But in conditions where aquaplaning was a constant threat, the challenge shifted from strategy to survival. Overtaking proved exceptionally difficult, as stepping even slightly off the racing line often resulted in a loss of control. That reality was on full display when Wehrlein, who had closed on Cassidy after the first round of Attack Modes, ran wide at Turn 7 and lost crucial time. It left Cassidy unchallenged out front, allowing the New Zealander to steadily build a gap and cruise to the finish. Further back, chaos continued in small bursts. Kiro's David Beckmann spun twice as he struggled for traction, and Saturday's winner Maximilian Gunther was forced into retirement with a mechanical issue. Notably, despite the treacherous conditions, the German was the only driver to fail to see the chequered flag. Further down the field, title leader Oliver Rowland had qualified only 17th and made little headway through the field, eventually finishing 13th without scoring points. Though the Briton retains a healthy lead in the Drivers' Championship, 68 points clear of second-placed Wehrlein, he cannot now seal the title at the next round in Jakarta, with the battle set to run until at least the Berlin double-header in mid-July. Porsche's double podium sees the German outfit take the lead in the Team's Championship with 191 points, just a single point ahead of Rowland's Nissan team. The next round of the 2024-2025 Formula E World Championship is the Jakarta ePrix on June 21.
Time of India
19-05-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Pascal Wehrlein reacts to 2nd place finish at Tokyo E-Prix Round 9: 'Not super happy, but not very disappointed'
TAG Heuer Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein wasn't entirely happy despite taking the number 2 spot on the podium on day two of the Tokyo E-Prix . He said he didn't have the championship points in mind, even though he earned 18 points in the Round 9 race, as he genuinely wanted to win that race. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now He currently stands in second position in the 2025 Formula E Driver Standings . Pascal Wehrlein isn't too happy after Tokyo race Taking to Instagram, Pascal Wehrlein shared a picture from the Tokyo E-Prix and wrote, 'P2! Strong fight - shame about the safety car in the end. Thank you Tokyo and all the fans! Arigatō.' The safety car had come out at a crucial moment when NEOM McLaren driver Taylor Barnard went into the barrier. Opening up about the race, Wehrlein said, 'It was an important day in general I think, as yesterday was very tricky. At the moment I'm still a bit disappointed because I think we could have done better, but there was just no way to defend my position when Oli [Rowland] was in Attack Mode. I did everything right and probably we need to analyse what we could have done better, but still, second is a good result with Dan [Ticktum] in P3. It's a very strong day for our package, which on the other side makes all of us happy.' He appeared calm and composed during the press conference as well. 'We could have done things a bit differently to finish the race in first place. So on one side, a bit disappointed, I really wanted to win that race. On the other side, it was a good result for the team P3, strong day for us. It is what it is,' he said. Pascal Wehrlein currently stands second in the Formula E Driver Standings with 84 points. He also secured third place on the podium at the Mexico E-Prix and later went on to win the Miami E-Prix. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Also Read: Speaking to the media after the Tokyo race, Wehrlein said that he wasn't thinking about the championship points 'for several reasons' after finishing the race in second place. 'The gap is quite big. They also perform on a level which is super high. For us, it's a bit up and down. We were also unlucky in some situations. For me it's trying to maximize every race. Probably if I was thinking about the championship, I wouldn't be so disappointed about P2. I am just looking race to race. I am not super happy but also not very disappointed,' he said.
Miami Herald
15-04-2025
- Automotive
- Miami Herald
Will future Formula E races be in Homestead? Downtown Miami? Neither?
Now that the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship series has come and gone again, headed for Monaco to race on the same weekend Formula 1 will be in Miami Gardens, will the electric car racing series be back again? And, if there is a 2026 return, where will the Miami E-Prix run? Downtown Miami, where the race ran in 2015? Homestead-Miami Speedway, where TAG Heuer Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein won Saturday? READ MORE: Wehrlein wins the Formula E Miami E-Prix after crash unplugs teammate Da Costa That question assumes a 2026 return. On Friday, as teams prepared for their first practice on the Homestead road course, Formula E series CEO Jeff Dodds said his people liked Homestead as a facility. And, the hospitality suites were sold out. 'So, that's not a challenge. The challenge is...,' Dodds looked out beyond the garages and across the track and chuckled a bit ruefully, 'it's one of the world's largest grandstands. You've got nearly 50,000 seats around the start-finish line. I think we would say if we got 15 to 20,000 people over the weekend on this site, that would be a great result to us in Year 1. Particularly when we heard the NASCAR had only a few thousand people for the last race (in March). NASCAR has 80% awareness in the U.S., we have 22%. 'That's our nervousness. Will people turn up?' The answer fell within Dodds' desired range, at least according to Formula E's official announced attendance: 17,000 after weeks of limited South Florida marketing and local media coverage. Running at Homestead makes logistics and the quick weekend move-in easy — permanent grandstands, garage areas, a big media center (which Formula E reporters and team-connected media packed), options for credential pickup, plus infield space for hospitality tents and Formula E's mobile broadcast and technology center. Drop in a couple of chicanes and Homestead's road course was ready to go. But, just because they were driving on a course that lives as a road course didn't mean even the winner was wholly happy in Homestead. With the course's long, wide straightaways, Pascal Wehrlein and everyone else expected the plethora of passing — 'chaotic' was the word of the weekend — but what actually bothered him were the spots where going offline meant only kicking up a bunch of dirt and obscuring the vision of trailing drivers. 'In qualifying, it ruined my lap, so I started form P9 instead of more toward the front,' Wehrlein said. 'Those kinds of things you don't have if you're racing the street circuits. If you make a mistake, you're in the wall. I like that challenge. I don't like it if something is artificially easy. 'In the future, I really want to come back here, but hopefully, we can be on the street circuit.' Going back downtown means the high rise residents, greater in number than 2015, putting up with traffic and pedestrian constraints of Friday track construction by barrier placements, Saturday of practice, qualifying and race and Sunday barrier removal. These are the same folks who kept Formula 1 out of downtown Miami, and might not care that Formula E's not nearly as high maintenance as its FIA big brother. Lola Yamaha driver Lucas di Grassi said he enjoyed Homestead as a 'very technical, very difficult' track, and the newness took away any advantage his experience might have. 'If this is the place for us to be in Miami, it's great,' di Grassi said. 'We love to race in Miami. But, again, the first year we raced here in downtown Miami, that track was also very very cool. If I could choose, I'd choose downtown Miami. Third place driver Antonio Felix Da Costa, who also ran downtown in 2015, concurred, 'Hopefully, we can migrate back to the cities. That would be awesome.' In the postrace podium media session, the drivers were asked, 'If only one U.S. track could be kept, which would it be?' Without hesitation, di Grassi said, 'Long Beach' and Da Costa seconded, 'Long Beach.'
