Championship leader Oliver Rowland discussed the 2024-2025 Formula E season ahead of the Monaco E-Prix. The Nissan driver have won two races in the current season, taking also a P2, but had only scored a single point in the latest race, held in Miami.
A less successful Miami
Rowland was not too fazed by the lull in his scoring points, especially considering the strong form he had displayed earlier in the season.
Asked by Pit Debrief on how he believes his chances to be ahead of the Monaco E-Prix double header, Rowland is positive about leading the Formula E championship for the second year in a row.
“Yeah, honestly the start of the season has been incredible. I probably could have won the first four races with a little bit more luck, the first one I had the penalty. So the start of the year has been great.”
He maintains his positivity
Even though he didn’t manage to extend his championship lead in the past round, Rowland was still confident about his championship winning odds.
“Miami was less good, but this is inevitable in motorsport, things happen like that. So I think I’m pretty confident, I have a decent margin in the championship coming into this race.”
“I’m able to try and focus on my job and recover from what I had in Miami and I would say that I’m quite confident, but also appreciate the work to be done ahead of the weekend.”
FE grants more overtaking opportunities
Rowland also discussed the perks of racing Formula E in Monaco compared to other series such as Formula 1 and the feeders series.
His greatest takeaway was the fact that overtakes are possible in the principality due to the dimensions of the challenger.
“It’s good whenever you come here in other categories, the qualifying is everything. I mean, maybe this year in Formula 1 will be slightly different with the pit stops. They have to do two pit stops.”
There are more opportunities to move up the grid even with a less than optimal qualifying.
“So, yeah, for us, there’s so many things to manage, you know. It’s the energy management, the taking the slipstream to save the energy, then now there’s a pit boost, now there’s four-wheel drive in attack mode.”
“There’s so many things to manage that we have to kind of replay all these things in the simulator and try and do the best job when it happens on the race day.” Heconcluded, stressing the importance of the abilities of the driver as well as the impact he can make on his race conduction.
