Special access to Jaguar garage for CT E-Prix's practice as Van der Linde struggles

25.02.2023 - 12:25 news24.com

The second practice session for this weekend's Formula E race in Cape Town is done and dusted, but it was a particularly unique experience as News24 Sport received special access to the Jaguar TCS Racing garage.The 30-minute session went by without drama, unlike the first, where three drivers, including South Africa's Kelvin van der Linde, saw their session come to a halt.

For FP2, however, everyone kept it clean as the quickest times tumbled atop the timesheets.In the end, Envision Racing's Nick Cassidy went quickest with a 1:08.118.

He was 0.307 seconds quicker than Maserati's Edoardo Mortara, who posted the fastest time in yesterday's FP1. Cassidy's time was a massive 1.6sec quicker than Mortara's FP1 time.Van der Linde was 19th quickest in his ABT Cupra, but 1.681 seconds off the pace.Very impressive from @NickCassidy_ who goes fastest in FP2!

His time of 1m08.118s sees him clock a time that is around 1.6s FASTER than yesterday's best.#CapeTownEPrix pic.twitter.com/4d7dItopxK Unique access The Jaguar TCS Racing team opened its garage to several media titles in attendance, allowing us to listen in on how the team communicates with its drivers.

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