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luglio 06, 2021 - Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team excited for race debut on the streets of New York
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Rounds 10 and 11 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will mark the team’s #newyork City debut
- Ian James: ”New York is one of the locations that reminds you what Formula E is all about: bringing exciting events to the biggest and most relevant cities around the globe”
- Nyck de Vries: “I hope that this #newyork weekend will favour us more, that we’ll be able to deliver two strong races and come away with a good haul of points”
- Stoffel Vandoorne: “We’ve shown that we’ve got a competitive car and package. We’ll be contenders if we can put all the pieces together. As you would expect, the target is to try and score as many points as possible in #newyork this weekend”
- Further information, statistics and facts about the upcoming E-Prix can be found in the Race Facts on our media site
The Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team is heading to #newyork City for the sixth race weekend of the 2020/21 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. While the team will be contesting an E-Prix on the streets of #newyork for the first time, this will be the fourth appearance in Brooklyn, #newyork City, for the all-electric #racing series.
Three double headers have taken place in #newyork City since its debut in Season 3 (2016/17) and there have been five different winners in the six Formula E races held there so far. The #newyorkcityeprix was cancelled in 2020 because of the worldwide pandemic, but Formula E will be returning to the United States of America later this week.
While the 2.32km street circuit may be new to #nyckdevries, #stoffelvandoorne is already familiar with it from the finale to Season 5. The track runs through the district of Red Hook, has 14 turns and is relatively unchanged since the last E-Prix in 2019. What is new, though, is where the activation zone for Attack Mode is now positioned. It has been relocated this year from the exit at Turn 5 to the outside of Turn 10. This may sound like a minor detail, but optimising Attack Mode has proven to be crucial at previous races this season.
Once again, the #newyorkcityeprix will be a double header with one race taking place on Saturday and then another on Sunday. Saturday’s first race will get underway at 21:34 BST while Round 2 will kick off at 18:34 BST on Sunday.
Comments ahead of the #newyorkcityeprix 2021
Ian James, Team Principal:
“I’m excited to see the #newyork E-Prix back on the calendar for the first time since 2019. #newyork is one of the locations that reminds you what Formula E is all about: bringing exciting events to the biggest and most relevant cities around the globe. The global situation last year meant we couldn’t visit the cities we’d ideally wanted to and seeing us return to #newyork this weekend does give a sense of what is to come – albeit a visit under still slightly restricted circumstances. This will be the first race for the Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team in #newyork. That is challenging, but also very exciting. We have now passed the halfway point in the season. With the knowledge of how close the field is, and how little difference there is in points in both the team’ and drivers’ championship standings, the coming weeks and months are going to be crucial. Apart from being as clean as we can be in our delivery, we also need to realise how unique the challenge is we are facing, and how special an opportunity we have to fight for a championship with this amazing team.
After the Puebla E-Prix, I said the result mostly hurt knowing we had the potential to do better. Those words weren’t empty; they were echoed by the whole team. We know our potential and have delivered on that potential on several occasions already this season. That knowledge hurts, but most of all, it keeps us motivated to keep doing what we do, and keep fighting for all the championship points we can possibly score in the last three events of the season.”
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