Maserati MSG Racing accelerated into a new era for\u00a0Formula\u00a0E\u00a0at the Mexico City\u00a0E-Prix, with the team narrowly missing out on the top 10 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez.
\nFacing the dawn of Gen3, drivers Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian G\u00fcnther gained invaluable insight during the Season 9 opener and showed promising initial pace following an encouraging pre-season test.
\nA challenging qualifying session \u2013 which saw both drivers fall short of the Duel stages \u2013 left the duo facing an uphill recovery in the race, in which they started from 16th and 17th.
\nEdo advanced to 15th on the opening lap by overtaking McLaren\u2019s Rene Rast, although the race was quickly paused when a collision for Robin Frijns brought out the Safety Car.
\nAction was resumed on lap five but was again halted one lap later when Jaguar\u2019s Sam Bird stopped on track with a technical failure. The field took to green flag running again on lap nine.
\nEdo and Max overtook a penalised Dan Ticktum during the restart, while the latter also passed Rast, who activated Attack Mode, for 15th.
\nOn lap 18, an unfortunate spin and collision caused by a snap of understeer forced Edo to retire, leaving Max as the team\u2019s sole runner for the remainder of the race.
\nWith a late Attack Mode activation, the German pilot made good progress to threaten for points in the closing laps and overtook DS Penske\u2019s Jean-Eric Vergne on the final tour to finish 11th.
\nFormula\u00a0E\u2019s ninth season will continue on January 27th and 28th, with a double-header event on the Riyadh Street Circuit in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Diriyah.
\nIn Their Words
\nJames Rossiter, Team Principal, Maserati MSG Racing
\n\u201cIt was a difficult day but in motorsport, you learn the most from your bad days \u2013\u00a0not your good ones. A poor qualifying put us on the back foot, but in the race, we were able to come back strong, with Max fighting from 17th to 11th and finishing just outside the points. Edo was showing really strong pace during the race, and his incident in Turn One was unfortunate. It\u2019s a shame as his pace was great. We have a lot to learn and there is a lot of data that we need to process from this weekend so that we can be in a better position for the next race in Diriyah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maserati MSG Racing accelerated into a new era for\u00a0Formula\u00a0E\u00a0at the Mexico City\u00a0E-Prix, with the team narrowly missing out on the top 10 at the Aut\u00f3dromo Hermanos Rodr\u00edguez.
\nFacing the dawn of Gen3, drivers Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian G\u00fcnther gained invaluable insight during the Season 9 opener and showed promising initial pace following an encouraging pre-season test.
\nA challenging qualifying session \u2013 which saw both drivers fall short of the Duel stages \u2013 left the duo facing an uphill recovery in the race, in which they started from 16th and 17th.
\nEdo advanced to 15th on the opening lap by overtaking McLaren\u2019s Rene Rast, although the race was quickly paused when a collision for Robin Frijns brought out the Safety Car.
\nAction was resumed on lap five but was again halted one lap later when Jaguar\u2019s Sam Bird stopped on track with a technical failure. The field took to green flag running again on lap nine.
\nEdo and Max overtook a penalised Dan Ticktum during the restart, while the latter also passed Rast, who activated Attack Mode, for 15th.
\nOn lap 18, an unfortunate spin and collision caused by a snap of understeer forced Edo to retire, leaving Max as the team\u2019s sole runner for the remainder of the race.
\nWith a late Attack Mode activation, the German pilot made good progress to threaten for points in the closing laps and overtook DS Penske\u2019s Jean-Eric Vergne on the final tour to finish 11th.
\nFormula\u00a0E\u2019s ninth season will continue on January 27th and 28th, with a double-header event on the Riyadh Street Circuit in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Diriyah.
\nIn Their Words
\nJames Rossiter, Team Principal, Maserati MSG Racing
\n\u201cIt was a difficult day but in motorsport, you learn the most from your bad days \u2013\u00a0not your good ones. A poor qualifying put us on the back foot, but in the race, we were able to come back strong, with Max fighting from 17th to 11th and finishing just outside the points. Edo was showing really strong pace during the race, and his incident in Turn One was unfortunate. It\u2019s a shame as his pace was great. We have a lot to learn and there is a lot of data that we need to process from this weekend so that we can be in a better position for the next race in Diriyah.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263811,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263810\/revisions\/263811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}