Formula E Season 11 Rounds 15 and 16: Nick Cassidy Ends his Jaguar Chapter With The Double

The last dance for season 11 has happened and Nick Cassidy topped it off in style with a double win in the British Capital. How did he do it? This is how:

Round 15:
Mitch Evans started the race from pole, and as we went green, it was clean until Max Guenther had an issue and caused a brief traffic jam, including the McLarens of Sam Bird and Taylor Barnard as well as the Lola Yamaha Abt of Zane Maloney. The safety car was brought out due to this, and Guenther sustained suspension damage. We went green again on lap 5.

It stayed as it was for several laps before Bird was the first driver to react to the pit boost window opening prior to Beckmann and Maloney taking attack mode. Pit Boost and Attack Mode would be the catalysts for the chaos of this race, as De Vries led Evans and Wehrlein at the midpoint while Beckmann and Rowland fought before Evans took his attack mode and interrupted the battle.

Frijns managed to lead the race as the top 4 of De Vries, Wehrlein, Evans, Rowland, and Barnard all pitted. Eventual race winner Nick Cassidy took control on lap 28 before Da Costa’s front wing broke as a result of contact before receiving the black and orange flag. During the front wing chaos, Evans got spun around by Dan Ticktum before karma hit the Briton, with him going into the barriers and deploying the safety car.

We went racing once again on lap 35 of 38 as we got one added lap with all remaining attack modes being taken before Nico Mueller went into the barriers but kept it going.

However, Cassidy was able to dominate the race and win the London E-Prix! Nyck De Vries finished P2 and Pascal Wehrlein P3. Stoffel Vandoorne finished P4, Jake Dennis P5, Jean-Eric Vergne P6, Edoardo Mortara P7, Robin Frijns P8, Norman Nato P9 and Mitch Evans P10.

Round 16:
We went green in London, and it was a disaster for Mortara as he got going due to a mechanical error causing him to DNF after just 1 lap of racing. Evans managed to jump up to P2 to make it a Jaguar 1-2 before De Vries went for a lunge for P2 on Evans and made it work.

Vandoorne had to come into the pits before Ticktum followed the Season 8 champion in. Rowland and De Vries were battling and nearly made contact before Rowland’s teammate Norman Nato and Taylor Barnard collided. Barnard had to retire, but Nato carried on. The full course yellow was brought out before De Vries took attack mode on lap 12 but struggled to pass Evans. Disaster hit for Evans as he came under investigation and then received a 5-second time penalty for overspeeding under yellow. Just before the midpoint, Rowland and Mueller collided, which brought out the safety car.

At the restart on lap 20 of 34, Cassidy and De Vries occupied the front 2 rows with 1 attack mode remaining, ahead of Evans in P3 with both attack modes. Evans made his way up to P2 and took attack mode to remain in P2. It was a bad race for McLaren, as Bird had a DNF in his final Formula E race. Both Jaguars took their final attack mode before Cassidy took off like a rocket ship and Wehrlein fell down the grid.

Nick Cassidy gave Jaguar TCS Racing the best send off with a final win. De Vries finished P2 and Buemi P3 after Evans’ penalty. Jake Dennis finished P4, Mitch Evans fell down to P5, Antonio Felix Da Costa P6, Maximilian Guenther P7, Pascal Wehrlein P8, Lucas Di Grassi P9 and David Beckmann P10.

Porsche managed to secure the teams and manufacturers championships.

Formula E returns in December for Round 1 in Sao Paulo!