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

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.

Mitch Evans and Sam Bird eventually finished the session in 4th and 5th, but it was impressive to see how they utilised the team's feedback.

The race engineers would study the track telemetry and the instant data from the car, and tell the drivers what to do to extract more performance or improve energy recovery.

It's a constant conversation between the drivers and team members manning the data, but seeing how every detail translates to improved track times is even more impressive.

At one point, Bird and Evans were 1-2 on the timesheets before they were relegated down the order.