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Cassidy seals ABB award double in Berlin

Análise 17 Jul 2025 4 Minutos

Nick Cassidy and Geoff Lefant hit the top of the ABB Engineered to Outrun standings after remarkably winning both awards in the Berlin double-header.

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Nobody has scored more points than the Jaguar TCS Racing driver over the past eight races in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, which is quite remarkable considering Cassidy started the two races in Germany in 21st and 20th position.

The standout performer around the Tempelhof circuit considering the nature of his charges, Cassidy navigated two dramatic and tactically complex races to carve through the field late on in both with surgical precision.

From 21st to 5th on Saturday, and winning from 20th on the grid on Sunday, Cassidy and his team were on the right side of fortune both days - but while circumstances did go in their favour this was more than just a result of opportunism or attrition, it was shaped by strong strategy and extremely effective execution.

His first challenge in race one was made tougher by a 10-second stop and go penalty for an inverter change in Jakarta. This was served early on, but it left Cassidy running at the back of the pack along with fellow penalised drivers Sebastien Buemi and Felipe Drugovich.

Thus began a long, patient phase of saving energy, consistently running below the field median for battery usage, and being as prepared as possible for further interruptions to the race that would help bring Cassidy into play. By lap 13, for example, he had more than 5% extra usable energy compared to team-mate Mitch Evans in the race lead.

Evans dominating out front was not the only hint of what was possible for Cassidy - another was when, without even having ATTACK MODE engaged while others did, Cassidy set the fastest lap of the race on lap 20.

There was no strategic edge to be gained through the PIT BOOST pitstop phase, so instead Cassidy and Jaguar saved all his ATTACK MODE until late on. And just as the window for that strategy to pay off looked like it might close, David Beckmann’s stricken car caused a Safety Car.

Cassidy took the restart 14th and activated six minutes of ATTACK MODE immediately, which meant he rose rapidly up the order and was into the top 10 with six laps remaining. In addition to picking off the cars ahead with his extra usable energy and power, Cassidy also got past Buemi in the battle of the rising backmarkers.

Then, in a final flourish in the dying seconds of being in ATTACK MODE, Cassidy swooped past Nico Mueller and Max Guenther to grab sixth - which became fifth after the chequered flag thanks to a penalty for Antonio Felix da Costa. The timing of the safety car was extremely beneficial, but Jaguar felt it had been on the receiving end of some bad luck recently with such interruptions - so this was just balancing that out.

There was a similar theme to race two, although the journey to Cassidy’s triumphant conclusion was a little different. He had a very cautious start and spent most of the first half of the race running in 21st position, banking as much energy as possible. His state of charge was 6% stronger than some as the race approached the halfway point.

A small amount of progress was made as Cassidy worked his way to 15th by lap 19, when a first safety car deployment bunched the field up. A few laps later there was a second safety car - by which point Cassidy was 12th. But this was not the moment for Cassidy to burst into the points positions as he actually slipped back quite a bit from there because of a key strategic choice.

Once again, he and Jaguar opted to wait as long as possible to use ATTACK MODE. So as others gained extra power, Cassidy dropped down the order - as far as 19th by the time he first armed himself with four minutes of ATTACK MODE.

Importantly, he did at least get ahead of Guenther during their synchronised fall backwards, meaning Cassidy was the lead car on that strategy and with plenty of energy left to maximise it.

As soon as the extra power was available, Cassidy’s rise was relentless. He gained eight places in one lap, five places the next, then another four: by lap 34, three laps after being almost last, Cassidy was running in second and on the tail of race leader Oliver Rowland. Then Cassidy dived straight back into the ATTACK MODE activation lane for his second four-minute boost, held onto second place while doing so, and breezed past Rowland on the very next lap.

From there, Cassidy was never headed - making a 20th-to-first charge look remarkably easy in the end. “Everyone knows that a driver of Nick’s class can never be written off, even when starting from P20 on the grid,” said Jaguar Team Principal James Barclay.

If anyone did not know that, they do now.