{"id":26040,"date":"2020-08-06T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T13:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/rene-rast-scores-straight-away-in-formula-e\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:38:26","slug":"rene-rast-scores-straight-away-in-formula-e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/rene-rast-scores-straight-away-in-formula-e\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Rast scores straight away in Formula E"},"content":{"rendered":"

Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler scored points with both cars in the first race of Formula E after the break of more than five months. Lucas di Grassi showed one of his typical comeback drives after a botched qualifying session. DTM champion Ren\u00e9 Rast scored a point straight away in his first race for Audi in the electric racing series.<\/p>\n

Lucas di Grassi already lost the chance for a top result in qualifying. After setting strong times in the first two sectors of the track, the Brazilian made a mistake in the last sector. Instead of qualifying for the \u201cSuper Pole\u201d of the top six, di Grassi found himself back in 20th position on the grid. \u201cIn Formula E, you can\u2019t achieve anything without taking risks,\u201d said di Grassi. \u201cIt was my mistake, for which I apologized to the team right away. But, we never give up. It was hard work moving up from 20th to 8th. Tomorrow is a new day, we will attack again!\u201d<\/p>

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Ren\u00e9 Rast showed a strong performance on his debut. From 13th on the grid, the German made it into the top ten, even though he had dropped back to 17th at one stage. \u201cAs expected, my first race for Audi in Formula E was pretty chaotic,\u201d said Rast. \u201cSafety cars, full course yellows, accidents in front of and beside me. I learned a lot today, gained experience and scored a point straight away. I hope there\u2019ll be more tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was another typical Formula E race with lots of action,\u201d said Team Principal Allan McNish. \u201cIn the end, there were a lot of hard fights. Lucas and Ren\u00e9 both came through unscathed and both finished in the top ten. But of course, we wanted to score more points. That\u2019s what we are aiming for tomorrow and in the other races to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Bird clinched a podium result for Audi customer team Envision Virgin racing by finishing third. Teammate Robin Frijns retired after contact with the wall.<\/p>\n

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Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler scored points with both cars in the first race of Formula E after the break of more than five months. Lucas di Grassi showed one of his typical comeback drives after a botched qualifying session. DTM champion Ren\u00e9 Rast scored a point straight away in his first race for Audi in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28015,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26040\/revisions\/28015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autoestrada.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}