Roland: “Multiple fuck-up” price victory in Components E season-opener

oliver roland He believes “one too many nonsense” cost the Nissan Formula E driver his chance for victory at the Sao Paulo E-Prix as he failed to score any points despite leading the most laps.

The Briton started second in the first race of the 2024–25 season, losing to polesitter and defending champion Pascal Wehrlein By just 0.099 seconds in qualifying.

After beating the Porsche driver to the line, Rolland led the early stages on the city street circuit, when he briefly gave up top position. nick cassidy Further upped the ante courtesy of the new all-wheel-drive Attack mode.

After taking both of their activations, the second red flag came out for a stuck and unsafe car jake dennisRoland passed the second Porsche Antonio Felix Da Costa On permanent restart.

He pulled a lead gap of over three seconds on the pack before facing a drive-through penalty, which ultimately led to his 14th-place finish.

“Sometimes it’s hard to accept,” Rolland, who led 17 of 35 laps in Brazil, told Motorsport.com. “We were in good position, we were efficient, we were fast. I am quite disappointed.

“To be completely honest, let’s say there was more than one nonsense, and I had three and a half seconds (before his penalty) to cause another nonsense.”

When asked if this was in relation to the incorrect number of laps being displayed, As had happened at Misano the previous season, this meant Roland was out of energy on the final tourHe said: “Not identical, but similar.

“If I had the right amount of laps from the start and had as good energy as anyone else, I would have been in contention for the win.

“I cleared the drive-thru but we wasted a lot of energy going. I came back to eighth and that showed how much we achieved but the problem is that the (second) red flag again neutralized everything and then I had a low target until the end.

“During the first red flag, I was one of the best, I was second, still good energy. And then those four or five laps before the second red flag, that bothered me.

Rowland’s penalty was a result of ‘overpowering’, which also affected his Nissan teammate norman natoplus two customers mclaren entries of taylor barnard And Sam Bird,

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Although the papaya-coloured cars took their penalties in the early stages, they saved a huge amount of energy and were able to climb back to third and fourth, courtesy of the stoppages.

“It (the intensity) comes from the beginning,” Rowland said. “I was unaware that the other three had got it and I got the same thing as they got in the second start.

“It’s basically because of the speed. The first start I was close to Turn 1 so I couldn’t get up to the speed where it was a problem.

“It’s the transition from front to rear (powertrain, when all-wheel-drive is used), so the second start when I pushed more at Turn 1, I got it.”