Cassidy playing the long game despite lightning start to FE season

Nick Cassidy marked his 50th Formula E start with his maiden victory for Jaguar TCS Racing in Saturday’s second race of the Diriyah E-Prix double-header, a win that also gave him the championship lead.

But despite the healthy advantage of 19 points and being the only driver to finish on the podium in all three races so far – the only driver with more than one podium at all, in fact – he’s not getting ahead of himself. And with good reason.

Last season, while driving for Jaguar customer Envision Racing, he failed to register a win until the mid-point of the season, but went onto notch up four victories (a season high) and had the championship lead with three races to go, only to ultimately miss out on the championship to Andretti’s Jake Dennis. So Cassidy knows all too well that Formula E’s tides can change dramatically over the course of a year.

“Honestly, there are 13 races left, it’s a long way to go… this grid is super-close and it’s going to be tough,” Cassidy said after holding off Nissan’s Oliver Rowland and Envision’s Robin Frijns. “Oli had us topped in qualifying and Jake (Dennis) dominated (on Friday), so everyone’s having their good day right now.