4月19日，2021 国际汽联电动方程式世界锦标赛第五站在瓦伦西亚暂告一段落，正赛最后一圈出现罕见事件，半数赛车由于最后一次安全车导致的能量扣除，未能完成比赛。NIO 333 FE车队的两位车手奥利弗·特维和汤姆·布隆奎斯特分别从19、23位起步，雨中竞赛奋力前进。在最后一圈一度杀进前十，但同样受能量困扰，只差几百米即可冲线。

虽未完赛，但在最终成绩单上，奥利弗和汤姆分别位列第十和第十一。雨天客观形势复杂加上安全车的多次出动，给予了车队一次非常难得的历练。今天，NIO 333 FE车队在同一条赛道上举行第六站的比赛，愿两位车手重振士气，满电再战！

奥利弗·特维（Oliver Turvey）

NIO 333 FE 001，8号

R5排位分组：第3

R5排位成绩：第23

R5正赛成绩：未完赛

“我们在排位赛遭遇了困难，最后一圈出现了软件问题。之后开始的雨战为我们提供了一个提升排名的好机会，我觉得我们在这样的条件下进行了一场相当不错的比赛。比赛伊始，我节省了一些电量——这在雨地的条件下给我提供了一定竞争力。我在整场比赛中一直努力提升位置，并在最后一台安全车出动的时候成功上升到第11位，当我们的赛车来到第10的位置时，我认为我们非常有机会拿到积分。但是在最后一圈，我们的电量水平发生了很大的变化，无奈提前耗尽。我们需要了解发生这种情况的原因，并全力专注于明天的比赛。”

汤姆·布隆奎斯特（Tom Blomqvist）

NIO 333 FE 001，88号

R5排位分组：第4

R5排位成绩：第19

R5正赛成绩：未完赛

“我本期待变幻多端的天气能带来一场激动人心的比赛，但实际上这是场比赛非常艰难。我们的速度不是很理想———预计变干的赛道最终更加湿滑了，全天候轮胎对我们的影响很大。最终电能管理的失误让我们失去了今天的成绩。回顾这场比赛的结果让人遗憾，但如果我们能在电量管理上做得更好一些，也许能在今天有所收获。然而，明天又是新的一天，所以我们将从今天的教学化作努力工作的动力，在明天争取更进一步。”

克里斯蒂安·西尔克（Christian Silk）

NIO 333 FE车队领队

“今天的比赛很艰难，这也是老生常谈了。今天早上的自由练习赛中，我们表现出了很好的节奏，而在排位赛前，我们非常确信这是一场雨战。然而，事情并没有如我们所希望的那样发展，因为一系列的问题，我们最终没能在排位赛中展现出潜力。不过，我从FE电动方程式学到的是，FE和其他系列赛不同——不到最后一刻，都不存在真正的结束，所以我们都知道我们必须为比赛而战。雨在我们将赛车推向发车线的之前就开始下了，这让我们意识到在这样的条件下比赛充满了各种可能。对于汤姆的赛车，我们的设定是赛道将变得干燥，所以我们把赛车按照干地比赛的设定进行调校。不幸的是，雨势没有真正减弱，汤姆在整个比赛中都在努力维持微弱的抓地力。奥利弗在比赛中控制得很好，他奋力向上，在某个阶段我希望我们能拿到一分。很明显，比赛的最后变成了一个‘小赌场‘，但有时候这就是比赛的美妙之处。作为一项团队工作，我们花了一些时来处理一系列后续事件，我相信这种情况不会再发生了。我要感谢团队中的每个人在这种情况下都非常高的自我要求，我们将作为一个团队继续积极前进。”

The new E-Prix track layout at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, and inclement weather conditions that rolled in just before the cars lined up on the starting grid, produced a battle of energy management for all of the Formula E teams during Round 5 of the ABB Formula E World Championship in Valencia today.

Following a safety car rolling start due to rain fall both NIO 333 Formula E Team drivers avoided an incident at the chicane which brought out a Full Course Yellow and a further four safety car deployments punctuated the contest. Only 12 out of the 24-car field classified at the end of the race of attrition, mixing up the positions on both the Drivers’ and Teams' Championship tables.

Oliver Turvey, #8 NIO 333 FE 001
Qualifying Group 3 - Race Grid Position: 23
Round 5 Race Result: DNF

“We had a difficult qualifying session with a software issue at the end of the lap. Starting [the race] at the back, the rain presented a good opportunity for us to move forwards and I felt that we had a pretty good race in those conditions. I was able to save some energy at the start and was pretty competitive in the wet. I kept moving forwards through the whole race and managed to get up to P11 at the last safety car and managed to get in to the points when we restarted in P10. I felt that there was a good chance of scoring some more points for the team, but on the last lap we had a big change in the energy levels and ran out on the final lap. We just need to understand why this happened and focus on tomorrow."

Tom Blomqvist, #88 NIO 333 FE 001
Qualifying Group 4 - Race Grid Position: P19
Round 5 Race Result: DNF

“Ultimately the weather can throw things up in the air and make things exciting, but it was actually a really tough race to manage. We didn’t have great pace and banked a little bit more on the track drying up than it actually being wet, so the all-weather tyres we had were a big influence. But none the less we just got a bit lost with our energy management and that cost us the results today. If we had been a bit more on top of that we could maybe have got something out of today which, looking back, is quite frustrating. However, it is another day tomorrow, so we’ll take the learnings from today and work hard over night to try to improve for the race.”

Christian Silk, NIO 333 Formula E Team Principal
“I realise it’s a cliché, but today’s race was a tough one. This morning during practice we showed good pace and we went into qualifying fairly confident of a good showing. However, things did not pan out as we hoped due to a combination of issues and we did not realise our potential in qualifying. However, one thing I have learned about Formula E is, unlike some other race series, 'it’s not over till it’s over' so we knew we had all to play for come the race. The rain started to fall before we went out to line up on the grid, so we knew it was all to play for in the changeable conditions. With Tom we banked on the track drying out so aimed the car setup at dry conditions. Unfortunately, the rain did not really abate and Tom struggled with low grip for all the race.

Oliver drove a really controlled race and battled his way up the order and at one stage I was hopeful we were going to get a points finish. Obviously, the end of the race turned into a little bit of a casino, but that’s the beauty of racing sometimes. We have spent some time as a team working through the train of events that followed and I am confident it won’t happen again. I would like to thank everyone in the team for being so self-critical in this situation, we will go forwards strongly as a team as a result of the conversations we are having this evening.”

The all-electric racing action starts again tomorrow morning with the third Free Practice session of the Valencia E-Prix starting at 08:00 CET, the Qualifying groups at 10:00 CET and Round 6 Race of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at 14:04 CET.
 

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