ROKiT Venturi Racing’s Edoardo Mortara claimed his second win of the 2022 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship season on Saturday as he claimed victory in the Berlin ePrix race 1 in Germany coming home just ahead of DS Techeetah’s Jean-Eric Vergne.
Speaking following the race, Mortara who started the race from pole position commented saying:
What a day. After the qualifying we were already very happy, but this race was amazing, very stressful because there were different strategies that I had to defend. In the end everything went alright, and I’m very happy.“You have to ask him [Vergne] about what happened at the end! He tried to overtake me but I was kind of anticipating it, but luckily for me he couldn’t really stop at the apex of the corner, and I couldn’t pass him straight away, and I knew that he had spent a lot of energy so it would be difficult for him to pass me again.“The good thing about Formula E is you need to constantly change your strategy, obviously you have a plan at the beginning of the race but nothing goes according to plan and you always need to adapt, as the others are trying to destabilise you, but in the end everything worked out very well for us.
Jean-Eric Vergne who started the race from fourth place on the grid commented on his own race saying:
It was a busy race. Lots happened and I am happy with second, I tried to give it a go to Edo but I think his mirror was working quite well so he saw he coming. I still had to try, I was not just going to sit behind and be happy with second so I had to try something. It was quite tight with Stoffel, so first my target was to win then I had pressure from behind so I had to watch out for Stoffel. But I am happy with second, another podium and more points – hopefully we can finally win a race this year. But other than that okay.“The pace of the car was good, it was better in the middle part of the race than at the end, maybe in the middle part I could have gained more time more advantage. But its okay, we are going to learn from this race and move on until tomorrow.
On the same day that it was announced that McLaren Racing has acquired the Mercedes EQ Team
their driver, Stoffel Vandoorne claimed a podium finish with third place having started the race from eighth place and speaking following the race the Belgian commented saying:
“I am not going to lie I’m a bit surprised [to be on the podium]. I did not have the best opening lap, I lost so many places I was probably down in P15 at one point. But I kept my cool, felt immediately there was pace in the car, so I could really use that today and get efficient overtaking done. The team did well with the strategy, I managed to execute it, and recover my poor performance in lap one.