Mitch Evans doesn’t feel like he got a fair shot at the Formula E title during Sunday’s championship decider in London.
Both he and Nick Cassidy went into Sunday’s second London E-Prix race with a chance at winning the title and pre-race, their Jaguar TCS Racing team had insisted both drivers would be free to race.
Cassidy led from pole and took his two Attack Modes early in the race, with Evans subsequently being asked to create a gap for his teammate at the front.
“Yeah, I was a bit surprised with some of the calls made in the race,” he said. “Otherwise the overall result would have been a lot different.
“I was told to stay behind Nick and let him do his Attacks, so it wasn’t fair.”
Evans took his two Attack Modes late in the race, with Cassidy out of contention by then and eventual champion Pascal Wehrlein breathing down his neck. He missed his first Attack Mode activation, but while that was instrumental in Wehrlein getting past him, Evans said that getting it right still wouldn’t have been enough to secure the championship with energy targets close and Nissan’s Oliver Rowland getting by both in the activation zone to steal the race victory.
“Even if I finished in front of Pascal, second and third, he still would have won on countback,” Evans conceded. “I needed the win or another car between us.