128 replies to this topic

[Disgrace]

Wehrlein complaining about moving under braking, now I have heard everything.

[ANF]

Out-tractioned.

[ANF]

Wow.

[Ben1445]

OHHH CLASSIC

[Muppetmad]

[Disgrace]

Great to see Bird back on form. Dennis must have had major late issues to manage, he was sitting pretty.

[Jellyfishcake]

What a move!

 

In the end, looks like battery temp was a bigger deciding factor over energy with the cars spacing out at the end of the race. 

[Muppetmad]

This race really wasn't doing it for me, but that last-lap overtake from Bird was a thing of beauty. Credit to Evans too for giving him the space: there are several drivers who would not have gone over the line to prevent that move from coming off.

[Disgrace]

Credit to Nissan, they've built a powertrain to break the Jaguar/Porsche duopoly.

[Ben1445]

McLaren’s first FE win as well

[Clrnc]

Absolutely unreal by Bird tbh. Congrats Mclaren first win

[Ben1445]

Amazingly, that puts Bird on twelve career wins which is one ahead of JEV and one behind Buemi/di Grassi

[Ben1445]

Super work by Rowland on that last corner for third as well

[thegamer23]

Formula E is back!  

Full style FE race, with plenty of strategy and peleton madness in the first half, than a more traditional final showdown for the top positions.

So, it had a bit of everything, plus a race decided in the second to last corner, come on! 

 

Sam Bird, my man, in one of the best moves in FE history to take the first win for McLaren! 

What a final few laps from Rowland too!

 

Sao Paulo delivers again!!
This venue is a keeper, also lots of people at the track!

And now, on to Tokyo for another step into History for FE! 

 

 

 

 

Edited by thegamer23, 16 March 2024 - 18:34.

[Anonymouse]

Super work by Rowland on that last corner for third as well

He completely cut the final corner though. Surprised he got to keep the place.

[thegamer23]

Sam Bird's winning move at the penultimate corner of the race    

 

https://twitter.com/...070931337449681

 

 

Also in Portoguese!

https://twitter.com/...072352522854774

 

 

 

Post Race show

 

Edited by thegamer23, 16 March 2024 - 19:43.

[Ben1445]

He completely cut the final corner though. Surprised he got to keep the place.

Think track limits policing was pretty much consistent in that the walls were the boundary. Drivers were taking lots of liberties at that corner (and T1/T2) pretty much all weekend.

[RSRally]

Just caught up with the race (i work Saturdays), bit of a slow burner, although i've seen worse pelotoning in FE.. but possibly the best final FE lap ever! Great that Bird went for it to get himself back on the top step of the podium and McLaren there for the first time.

[juicy sushi]

Just saw the highlights. Annoyed I missed this one. Very happy for Bird and Rowland upsetting the applecart. Looked like Dennis and Pascal wrecked each other and Oliver stole the podium. Good on him.

[thegamer23]

 

 

 

You know the race was good when even Sam Smith is euphoric!

 

 

 

Very tight Top 7 in the championship standings.

Rowland and Bird back in the title fight??

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next stop: TOKYO (march 30), for the first ever race in Japan! 

It will be a huge event!

 

 

Edited by thegamer23, 17 March 2024 - 08:33.

[Dutchrudder]

Just caught up with this after recording it yesterday, really good race, amazing to see how close together the cars can stay.

I was very interested, as someone who hasn’t really watched much FE, the long lap to activate the power boost seemed to be a disadvantage, and it was almost as if getting a safety car during your power boost was advantageous, is that just a quirk of this track?

[Ben1445]

It’s a quirk of the car/format and the tyres really. Tyres aren’t grippy enough to make effective use of the extra power, and with this much energy conservation you don’t really need it either. The Attack Mode activation functions a lot more like the average Joker Lap in other championships.

Next season we’re expecting stickier tyres from Hankook, some revised aero and possibly activation of the front axle powertrain to provide boost power to the front wheels. Also ambition remains to introduce the fast charge pit stop later this season (though there may be a push to roll into into next seasons upgrade package). Changes which should move the needle from the current situation in any case.

Edited by Ben1445, 17 March 2024 - 10:12.

[sportyskells]

And it’s not a formula e race until someone got dq (at least it did not affect the top 3)

[Grippy]

We enjoyed that race, decent circuit with lots of overtaking opportunities so less processional than the seaon openers.

Cars look racier than previous seasons.

[thegamer23]

Sam Smith's post-race notebook

https://fenotebook.c...book-post-race/

 

Lots of curiosities & unseen facts about the race 

 

 

Winners & Losers of the Sao Paulo's thriller

https://t.co/9nKX5ytKgO

 

 

Edited by thegamer23, 17 March 2024 - 14:12.

[Ben1445]

Kind of sounded through some of the interviews that Bird/McLaren may have in a better position for battery temp management than Evans through as simple a thing of having a second car still in the race when the issues started to appear through the field. Bird may also have had the benefit of spending a lot of time in clean air at the front.

Rowland was saying it’s basically the first time any of them have had to deal with it to that extreme in Gen3. Which is interesting.

Still, think that finish was one of those golden moments we love this sport for. Exciting on track action with a rich and compelling back story given Bird’s really dreadful last season at Jaguar and McLaren’s progress after entering in Gen3. Was also lovely to hear the mutual respect between Evans and Bird, and I don’t think we’d have got that finish without it.

[Stephane]

Yeeah, it was and looked fun and fair. Which is what we want, basically.

[Jellyfishcake]

What was good is it made the first half of the race worth it.

 

Not a fan of the pelaton style ones in general, but when the endings are like that i'm good with it.

[Muppetmad]

The ending made the first half worth it indeed. As I've probably said before, though, I'm not convinced the peloton-style races work with the qualifying system: qualifying position mattered very little here, so except for the pole sitter, there was no real reward for stringing together the laps necessary to reach the latter stages of the duels.