'They happen in racing, and it was bound to happen sometime this season.

'It wasn't an ideal day,' Cassidy said about Round 11. He was able to get going again with some damage to his front wing but had to settle for finishing at the back of the grid. He got in a tangle with Jean-Eric Vergne (DS PENSKE) on Saturday and failed to pull off a lunge on championship rival Wehrlein, which ended up with him going into the barrier. However, things unravelled themselves over Rounds 10 and 11, and now he's slipped to third in the standings, albeit six points behind TAG Heuer Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein, who returns to the top stop.Ĭassidy picked up just seven points over the double header in Indonesia, finishing seventh with the fastest lap in race one and 18th with no points the following day. Still, his victory this weekend makes it Maserati's first world championship single-seater win since Juan-Manuel Fangio's legendary win at the Nurburgring in 1957.Ĭhallenging championship weekend for CassidyĮnvision Racing's Nick Cassidy arrived into the Jakarta weekend with the championship lead and back-to-back victories in Berlin and Monaco. Guenther already ended their wait for a single-seater podium in motorsport when he achieved third in Berlin. Their absence in single-seater championships was no more when they joined Formula E for the new GEN3 era, with the team transitioning from Venturi to Maserati MSG Racing for this season. The iconic manufacturer has a rich racing history, attracting some of the biggest names when it competed in Formula 1 several decades ago. When Maserati decided to make their motorsport comeback with Formula E for Season 9, there were headlines everywhere.

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