Pretoria, 07 August 2023 – Jaguar TCS Racing has introduced Nick Cassidy will join the group’s driver line-up for the 2024 season of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, the second 12 months of the Gen3 period of Formula E.
Nick Cassidy up to now
The Formula E race winner and 2023 title challenger will join fellow New Zealander Mitch Evans, who has been with the group since they joined the all-electric World Championship in 2016. The two Kiwis can be one of many strongest driver line-ups on the grid, with 15 wins, 37 podiums, 11 pole positions and 1076 championship factors between them.
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Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Nick began racing at a younger age, competing in opposition to now new teammate Mitch all through their childhood in classes together with karting and Formula Toyota. Moving into single-seaters, Cassidy had a profitable debut within the Formula First New Zealand collection in 2008, earlier than changing into one of the vital profitable drivers within the historical past of the Toyota Racing Series. Cassidy went on to race within the FIA Formula 3 European and Renault 2.0 championships. Following his basis years racing in New Zealand and Europe, Nick had a really profitable interval of his profession in Japan the place he received the ultra-competitive Japanese Formula 3 Championship in 2015, the Super GT Championship in 2019 and the head Super Formula title in 2019 all driving for Toyota. Following this chapter of his profession he joined the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in 2020 driving for Envision Racing after a formidable Marrakesh rookie check with the group.
In 2022, Nick had his first Formula E victory at the New York E-Prix, and a podium in London, ending eleventh within the Drivers’ Championship. He joins Jaguar TCS Racing off the again of his most profitable season to date, having completed the 2023 season runner-up within the Drivers’ World Championship, bringing the title battle to the ultimate weekend of the season. Nick was instrumental in profitable the Teams’ World Championship with Envision Racing, driving a Jaguar I-TYPE 6.
The 2024 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will start on 13 January 2024 in Mexico City, for the primary of 17 rounds of thrilling wheel-to-wheel racing on road circuits within the coronary heart of the world’s cities.
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From the group
“We are thrilled to announce that Nick Cassidy has joined Jaguar TCS Racing. Nick’s track record speaks for itself and is someone we have always had our eye on back to his time racing in Japan. Since joining Formula E he has gone from strength to strength and his 2023 season was very impressive. Nick was highly motivated to join the team and we are proud to welcome him into the Jaguar family. We head into the new season with one of the strongest driver line-ups on the grid and paired with the Jaguar I-TYPE 6 and our talented team we will be looking to once again challenge for both the Drivers and Teams World Championship titles.”
James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal
“I’m very excited to be joining the Jaguar TCS Racing team for the 2024 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship and I am looking forward to racing for a team like Jaguar that has such a successful motorsport history. This season has been my most successful to date, so I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of the Jaguar I-TYPE 6 and fight for points, podiums and wins. Looking forward to having Mitch as a teammate, we have known each other since we were kids and have raced against each other for years, so I’m proud that we will be racing together and hope to continue to put New Zealand on the map in motorsport.”
Nick Cassidy, Jaguar TCS Racing driver, #37
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