Wehrlein’s Formula E Sao Paulo crash was “a sickening feeling”, says Cassidy

Nick Cassidy has described his Sao Paulo E-Prix accident with Pascal Wehrlein, which despatched the reigning System E champion airborne and the wrong way up into the barrier, as “a sickening feeling”.

The Jaguar driver had been in direction of the entrance of a dramatic season-opener in Brazil that featured two pink flags and was ultimately received by team-mate Mitch Evans from final on the grid.

Whereas Evans had moved into the lead and headed Antonio Felix da Costa within the closing phases, Cassidy in third was attacked from behind by DS Penske’s Maximilian Gunther and Porsche’s Wehrlein into the tight Flip 4/5 chicane.

Gunther was pushed into the wall on the skin of the circuit with Cassidy, who was in the midst of the trio, consequently breaking the suspension on his Jaguar.

The harm meant Cassidy’s automobile failed to show for the next flat-out, right-handed Flip 6 and he hit the aspect of Wehrlein’s Porsche inflicting it to tip onto its aspect.

The highest of Wehrlein’s automobile made heavy contact with the barrier on the skin of the circuit earlier than coming to relaxation the wrong way up.

Wehrlein reported over the radio that he was trapped and a pink flag was deployed to help the German, who extracted himself from the automobile unharmed however visibly shaken as soon as it was righted.

Taken to hospital for precautionary checks, a Porsche spokesperson confirmed that Wehrlein was unhurt and had spoken to his household, in addition to watched the tip of the race.

Talking to Autosport in regards to the accident, which was investigated by the stewards who selected no additional motion, Cassidy mentioned: “It’s type of a sickening feeling everytime you see a automobile the wrong way up so simply very glad he’s okay.

“I don’t actually really feel like I hit anybody, I had two vehicles come from behind me to in entrance of me and each type of sandwiched me. I don’t know what I used to be meant to do there.”

With a second pink flag neutralising the race, Cassidy recovered to the pits the place his workforce tried to restore the automobile.

He rejoined for the four-lap sprint to the flag however retired earlier than the chequered flag resulting from points probably unrelated to the accident.

“We had some type of vitality problem, there was one thing flawed in our software program for the previous few laps,” mentioned Cassidy.

“I don’t know what was bent or damaged, we needed to restore quite a bit to have the ability to get again out after which after I was out we had another stuff occurring.”