Evans: Jaguar “definitely has some work to do” for Mexico City E-Prix.

Formula E Championship Leader mitch evans Claiming that his Jaguar team “definitely has some work to do” as he believes the package still lacks the pure performance of rivals Porsche and Nissan.

Evans won from last on the grid at the season-opening São Paulo E-Prix, benefiting from several incidents and two red flags and moving up the order last month.

But despite a winning start to the season the Kiwi believes the Jaguar package is far from the strongest on the grid ahead of Saturday’s Mexico City E-Prix.

“It feels like we lack something, especially in a lap efficiency, I think if you look at all the analysis Porsche and Nissan have also got the lead on us, but in a lap speed I would say That’s our weakness,” Evans told Motorsport.com.

“We just hope we can obviously make up that deficit, but it looks like we fell a little short.

“I think Nissan has done a great job especially in terms of efficiency as well as its overall package.

“Like everyone else our car is still very immature, but I think we have improvements we can make, but I think everyone else can too. So it’s hard to make decisions at this point, but we definitely have some work to do.”

Porsche’s Antonio Felix Da Costa He topped Friday’s opening FP1 session as teammate Evans finished fifth, just three tenths behind nick cassidy Finished half a second further back in 15th place.

Cassidy fails to finish Sao Paulo race after collision with defending champion Pascal Wehrleinwho is gone Porsche driver hospitalized after crashing his car into a wall,

Cassidy said the British manufacturer intends to introduce an upgrade package after the Jeddah double-header in February that will help its performance.

“I think we’re a little behind where we wanted to be with this car,” Cassidy said.

“We’ve got some really cool, exciting things in the pipeline where I think we’ll have to wait until the break after Jeddah to see how things like that go.

“I’m probably more optimistic for the second half of the season than right now but it’s all OK. I think the team is doing a really good job, working really hard and we’ll see what happens this weekend.”