Sam Bird: “We know we can produce incredible results in Rome”

Sam Fowl feels the mid-season break has been helpful for the Jaguar TCS Racing squad as they give the impression of being to kickstart their season after a below par begin to the 2021-22 ABB FIA System E World Championship season.

The British racer began the yr with a fourth-place end in race one of many Diriyah E-Prix, nevertheless it has been slim pickings since, with fifteenth place finishes in race two in Saudi Arabia in addition to within the Mexico Metropolis E-Prix.

Fowl says everybody has been working arduous to resolve the problems which have price them within the opening three races as System E arrives in Italy for the Rome E-Prix for 2 extra races, and he believes the staff can produce ‘unbelievable outcomes’ this weekend.

“I’m very excited to be again within the Jaguar I-TYPE 5 this weekend,” stated Fowl.  “The mid-season break has been helpful for the staff to come back collectively and work out the place we are able to enhance and what we have to do to ship a robust efficiency – now it comes all the way down to placing this into observe this weekend.

“Qualifying nicely goes to be necessary. We all know we are able to produce unbelievable leads to Rome so I’m hoping we are able to do the identical once more this weekend.”

“The Rome E-Prix is a really particular race for me” – Mitch Evans

Staff-mate Mitch Evans has fond recollections of racing in Rome with Jaguar, with the New Zealander taking victory there in 2019 with the staff, earlier than ending on the rostrum there in 2021.

Like Fowl, Evans is hopeful of a turnaround of fortune for each himself and the staff having scored solely a single level throughout the opening three races, courtesy of a tenth-place end within the opening race of the Diriyah E-Prix.

And Evans believes Jaguar have the bundle that ought to allow him to combat on the entrance of the sector throughout each Rome races this weekend.

“The Rome E-Prix is a really particular race for me, holding fond recollections of my first win with Jaguar TCS Racing in 2019 and one other podium final yr,” stated Evans.

“We all know we’ve a very robust race bundle in our Jaguar I-TYPE 5 so I’m trying ahead to getting again on monitor and hopefully delivering one other robust consequence with the staff.”