Jakarta E-Prix: ‘I want to be a big contributor’ – Sebastien Buemi happy with Nick Cassidy supporting role

Envision Racing’s Sebastien Buemi says he is happy to play second fiddle, as both his team and team-mate Nick Cassidy target their first title in this season’s ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. Buemi is a veteran of the series having raced in every season since its inception in 2014, but has watched Cassidy storm to the lead in the World Championship standings following back-to-back race victories in Berlin and Monaco. Ad It has been a difficult couple of years for the Season 2 champion, who has finished a miserly 21st and 15th respectively in the past two seasons.

This led Buemi to change team for the first time in Formula E history when he moved from Nissan e.dams to Envision for Season 9. Jakarta ePrixJakarta E-Prix Talking Points — Cassidy aiming to secure three consecutive winsAN HOUR AGO However, things have looked more positive this term with the 34-year-old currently sitting in 8th place in the drivers’ standings and contributing vital points to his team’s rise to the top of the manufacturer’s World Championship. And speaking ahead of this weekend’s 2023 Gulavit Jakarta E-Prix double-header, Buemi admits that while the transition has been difficult, he is fully focused on helping the team get over the line.

“I want to be a big contributor with my points”, he said. “Obviously, Nick has done an amazing job and is contributing a lot more than me, but I hope I can get the strong results to help the team as well. “It's a great team who have been around for a long time.

They know how to extract good performances because it's been a customer team since the very beginning, and they are really good at doing that. I hope we can keep fighting till the end of the championship for that win. “I found it quite a big