If you possibly can’t be a part of ’em, beat ’em.
Sam Bird, who parted methods with Jaguar TCS after final season, overtook former teammate and 2023 race winner Mitch Evans on the ultimate lap Saturday afternoon at São Paulo in FIA ABB Formula E championship motion to present NEOM McLaren its first triumph within the 10-year-old collection.
The victory on the Anhembi Sambadrome circuit within the Brazilian capital was Bird’s twelfth general within the international all-electric collection and his first for the reason that 2021 New York City race. It marked the fourth completely different winner in as many occasions this yr.
With an outdoor maneuver on the tenth of 11 turns, Bird beat Evans to the checkered flag by 0.564 of a second. Nissan’s Oliver Rowland was third, 3.540 seconds off Bird’s tempo.
“Things have come on really well quite quickly,” Bird stated of his new group. “We had some goals at the beginning of the year about scoring some podiums. I would be lying to you, saying that I thought that we could definitely win a race this early. I didn’t imagine that, but we’ve managed it.
“There’s still work to be done,” he stated. “There’s so many brilliant teams that any given time can be winning or scoring podiums.”
Evans stated, “I was running out of power. I felt like I was in a Gen 1 car [the original, far slower version than today’s Gen 3 product] on the last lap. Even if Sam didn’t take me there [on Turn 10], he would’ve gotten me at the start-finish line. It’s good to see him back in his winning ways. We do all the right things at the right time in these crazy races to produce another win, but it wasn’t meant to be today.”
Despite a Lap 16 wall-banger that popped off a rear tire and handed him a last-place end, Jaguar TCS’s Nick Cassidy – winner on the earlier race, at Diriyah, Saudi Arabia – stays the factors chief because the tour heads to a brand new occasion March 30 at Tokyo. Cassidy has a four-point edge on Pascal Wehrlein, champion on the season-opener at Mexico City. Wehrlein, of Tag Heuer Porsche, completed fourth Saturday.
Reigning collection champion Jake Dennis, of the Andretti group, rounded out the highest 5.
After April stops at Misano, Italy, and Monaco, adopted by races in May at Berlin and Shanghai, Formula E will return to Portland, Ore., for a doubleheader June 29-30. The Portland weekend will probably be collection’ penultimate cease earlier than it crowns its champion in London with a July 20-21 twin invoice.
Sam Bird of Great Britain driving the (8) NEOM McLaren Formula E Team celebrates with the winner’s trophy after successful the 2024 Hankook Sao Paulo E-Prix Round 4 at Anhembi Sambadrome on March 16, 2024 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2024 São Paulo Formula E E-Prix Results
|
1 |
Sam Bird |
Nissan e-4ORCE 04 |
34 |
19 |
53m03.071s |
|
2 |
Mitch Evans |
Jaguar I-Type 6 |
34 |
8 |
+0.564s |
|
3 |
Oliver Rowland |
Nissan e-4ORCE 04 |
34 |
0 |
+3.540s |
|
4 |
Pascal Wehrlein |
Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 |
34 |
2 |
+3.629s |
|
5 |
Jake Dennis |
Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 |
34 |
2 |
+3.722s |
|
6 |
António Félix da Costa |
Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 |
34 |
3 |
+5.567s |
|
7 |
Jean-Eric Vergne |
DS E-TENSE FE23 |
34 |
0 |
+6.006s |
|
8 |
Stoffel Vandoorne |
DS E-TENSE FE23 |
34 |
0 |
+6.817s |
|
9 |
Maximilian Günther |
Maserati Tipo Folgore |
34 |
0 |
+8.085s |
|
10 |
Sébastien Buemi |
Jaguar I-Type 6 |
34 |
0 |
+8.610s |
|
11 |
Sacha Fenestraz |
Nissan e-4ORCE 04 |
34 |
0 |
+9.277s |
|
12 |
Edoardo Mortara |
Mahindra M9Electro |
34 |
0 |
+9.762s |
|
13 |
Lucas Di Grassi |
Mahindra M9Electro |
34 |
0 |
+10.819s |
|
14 |
Nyck de Vries |
Mahindra M9Electro |
34 |
0 |
+13.677s |
|
15 |
Jehan Daruvala |
Maserati Tipo Folgore |
34 |
0 |
+14.379s |
|
16 |
Sérgio Sette Câmara |
ERT X24 |
34 |
0 |
+17.511s |
|
17 |
Daniel Ticktum |
ERT X24 |
34 |
0 |
+17.884s |
|
18 |
Norman Nato |
Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 |
34 |
0 |
+18.889s |
|
19 |
Robin Frijns |
Jaguar I-Type 6 |
34 |
0 |
+19.124s |
|
Jake Hughes |
Nissan e-4ORCE 04 |
31 |
0 |
DNF |
|
|
Nick Cassidy |
Jaguar I-Type 6 |
25 |
0 |
DNF |
|
|
Nico Müller |
Mahindra M9Electro |
14 |
0 |
DNF |
