· After pulling off a spectacular final lap transfer across the outdoors of Mitch Evans, Sam Bird claimed his twelfth Formula E victory (placing him one win behind Sebastien Buemi and Lucas di Grassi’s document).
· For the seventh time in Formula E, the race was received following a final lap lead change (and the primary for the reason that Season 7 Monaco E-Prix).
· Bird has a constant sample of getting received within the opening portion of a season. In seven of the ten Formula E seasons, Bird has received one of many opening 4 races.
· Pascal Wehrlein and Stoffel Vandoorne lined up on the entrance row for the beginning of the São Paulo E-Prix. The seven drivers to have claimed a entrance row begin up to now in Season 10 are from seven completely different nations. Brazil, Portugal and India are the one nations represented on the Season 10 grid that haven’t but taken a entrance row begin.
· After simply 4 races in Season 10, all 11 groups have had a driver attain the Duels a minimum of as soon as. It took till the ultimate race of Season 8 and till Race 8 of Season 9 for all groups to have reached the Duels within the earlier seasons.
· Edoardo Mortara claimed Mahindra Racing’s first Duel look since Diriyah final season, the Swiss-Italian began the race from sixth on the grid – his finest begin since becoming a member of the Indian crew in Season 10.
· Six occasions has a crew had a minimum of one driver attain the Duels in eight consecutive qualifying classes. Jaguar TCS Racing are the one crew to have gone on the streak twice, with the crew’s present streak beginning again on the first race of final season’s Rome E-Prix.
· Sam Bird grew to become the second oldest Formula E winner, having received aged 37 years and 67 days. Lucas di Grassi claimed his most recent win aged 37 years and 354 days.
· Sam Bird’s final win got here in New York in Season 7. The Briton had 35 winless race begins between his wins. A streak which is just overwhelmed by Antonio Felix da Costa who went 38 race begins between his wins in Season 1 and Season 5.
· Even although he didn’t end within the high ten to say the championship level, Nyck de Vries claimed the quickest lap of the Sao Paulo E-Prix. This is Mahindra Racing’s tenth quickest lap in Formula E.
· Six completely different drivers have now claimed a quickest lap while driving for Mahindra Racing, which is greater than another crew (Nick Heidfeld, Bruno Senna, Felix Rosenqvist, Pascal Wehrlein, Alexander Sims and now de Vries).
· After main 19 laps in São Paulo, Sam Bird has surpassed 300 laps led in Formula E placing the Brit fourth by way of all-time with a complete of 316 laps led.
· The 19 laps led by the Sam Bird was greater than the NEOM McLaren crew had led throughout their prior 19 races since becoming a member of Formula E (14 laps led).
· After back-to-back podium finishes, Oliver Rowland has now scored a complete of 264 factors for Nissan throughout his two stints with the crew, now making him the best scoring driver for Nissan in Formula E (surpassing Sebastien Buemi). Only 16 drivers have managed to attain over 250 factors for a single crew.
· Nissan powertrains scored their third ever win in Formula E, with the Japanese producer powering the NEOM McLaren outfit. This race additionally marked the second race to be received by somebody utilizing a powertrain aside from Porsche or Jaguar within the final 16 races – the final being DS PENSKE’s Jean-Eric Vergne with the STELLANTIS energy in Hyderabad final season.
· It was additionally the primary double podium for Nissan powertrains with Bird and Rowland ending in first and third respectively – the Japanese producer wanting aggressive heading into their home race in Tokyo on Saturday 30 March, 2024.
· Maximilian Guenther began final on the grid and had a 10-second stop-and-go in São Paulo after choosing up penalties for altering the gearbox and inverter on his Maserati MSG machine. Despite this the German labored his means by the pack to finish the race within the factors in ninth.
· The São Paulo E-Prix was the a hundred and twentieth Formula E race, and the second Safety Car interval within the race was the a hundred and twentieth Safety Car intervention in Formula E historical past.
· With Jean-Eric Vergne claiming a seventh-place end in São Paulo, it marked the a hundredth Formula E race through which a French driver has scored factors in (there may be at the moment a 19-race streak through which French drivers have picked up factors).
· With each Sam Bird and Oliver Rowland standing on the rostrum, the São Paulo E-Prix was the fifth British double podium in Formula E (and the primary British double podium to not embody Jake Dennis). All British double podiums have come for the reason that begin of Season 7.
· Nine drivers have led a minimum of one lap throughout the opening 4 races in Season 10, which already equals the whole variety of race leaders in the entire of Season 6.
