Chess match ♟️ Last-lap battle ⚔️ The Formula E drivers expect the inaugural SaoPauloEPrix to be a tactical slipstreaming fight ⬇️
Formula E drivers believe this weekend’s inaugural Sao Paulo E-Prix will become a tactical slipstreaming battle that “could go down to the last lap” due to the Brazilian circuit’s layout.The championship will race for the first time in the country on Saturday on a similar layout which was previously used by IndyCar between 2010-2013.
A characteristic of the venue is the use of four notable straights around the 1.83-mile circuit, a feature that has not been common at other Formula E tracks due to the nature of the electric machines. “The passing opportunities here should be a little bit better compared to other tracks, so I can’t imagine someone breaking away from the field. I think it will be a bit of a chess match,” said Jaguar driver“We normally race on very tight, twisty tracks but this one, when you look at it on paper, it looks quite condensed [but] there’s a lot of long straights, which we have in Formula E, but not as much as we’re seeing here.
“The race here could be really exciting, it could go down to the last lap, last few corners, just because of the nature of the layout.”, winner last time out in Cape Town, reckons that drivers will try and avoid leading until as late as possible to save energy in the slipstream of their rivals. “We’ll see how the race develops but obviously being behind someone you become much more efficient, so you have to be smart [in] the way you do it, like with the Attack Mode activations,” said the Porsche driver.“I’ve won a few races on pure strategy, Marrakesh [2019-20] I gave up the lead on purpose, the last race was similar, but the problem is I think at the time I was maybe one of the only ones aware of this, and I think now everyone is aware of this.
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