4月19日，2021 國(guó)際汽聯(lián)電動(dòng)方程式世界錦標(biāo)賽第五站在瓦倫西亞暫告一段落，正賽最后一圈出現(xiàn)罕見(jiàn)事件，半數(shù)賽車(chē)由于最后一次安全車(chē)導(dǎo)致的能量扣除，未能完成比賽。NIO 333 FE車(chē)隊(duì)的兩位車(chē)手奧利弗·特維和湯姆·布隆奎斯特分別從19、23位起步，雨中競(jìng)賽奮力前進(jìn)。在最后一圈一度殺進(jìn)前十，但同樣受能量困擾，只差幾百米即可沖線。

雖未完賽，但在最終成績(jī)單上，奧利弗和湯姆分別位列第十和第十一。雨天客觀形勢(shì)復(fù)雜加上安全車(chē)的多次出動(dòng)，給予了車(chē)隊(duì)一次非常難得的歷練。今天，NIO 333 FE車(chē)隊(duì)在同一條賽道上舉行第六站的比賽，愿兩位車(chē)手重振士氣，滿電再戰(zhàn)！

奧利弗·特維（Oliver Turvey）

NIO 333 FE 001，8號(hào)

R5排位分組：第3

R5排位成績(jī)：第23

R5正賽成績(jī)：未完賽

“我們?cè)谂盼毁愒庥隽死щy，最后一圈出現(xiàn)了軟件問(wèn)題。之后開(kāi)始的雨戰(zhàn)為我們提供了一個(gè)提升排名的好機(jī)會(huì)，我覺(jué)得我們?cè)谶@樣的條件下進(jìn)行了一場(chǎng)相當(dāng)不錯(cuò)的比賽。比賽伊始，我節(jié)省了一些電量——這在雨地的條件下給我提供了一定競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力。我在整場(chǎng)比賽中一直努力提升位置，并在最后一臺(tái)安全車(chē)出動(dòng)的時(shí)候成功上升到第11位，當(dāng)我們的賽車(chē)來(lái)到第10的位置時(shí)，我認(rèn)為我們非常有機(jī)會(huì)拿到積分。但是在最后一圈，我們的電量水平發(fā)生了很大的變化，無(wú)奈提前耗盡。我們需要了解發(fā)生這種情況的原因，并全力專(zhuān)注于明天的比賽?！?/p>

湯姆·布隆奎斯特（Tom?Blomqvist）

NIO 333 FE 001，88號(hào)

R5排位分組：第4

R5排位成績(jī)：第19

R5正賽成績(jī)：未完賽

“我本期待變幻多端的天氣能帶來(lái)一場(chǎng)激動(dòng)人心的比賽，但實(shí)際上這是場(chǎng)比賽非常艱難。我們的速度不是很理想———預(yù)計(jì)變干的賽道最終更加濕滑了，全天候輪胎對(duì)我們的影響很大。最終電能管理的失誤讓我們失去了今天的成績(jī)?；仡欉@場(chǎng)比賽的結(jié)果讓人遺憾，但如果我們能在電量管理上做得更好一些，也許能在今天有所收獲。然而，明天又是新的一天，所以我們將從今天的教學(xué)化作努力工作的動(dòng)力，在明天爭(zhēng)取更進(jìn)一步?！?/p>

克里斯蒂安·西爾克（Christian Silk）

NIO 333 FE車(chē)隊(duì)領(lǐng)隊(duì)

“今天的比賽很艱難，這也是老生常談了。今天早上的自由練習(xí)賽中，我們表現(xiàn)出了很好的節(jié)奏，而在排位賽前，我們非常確信這是一場(chǎng)雨戰(zhàn)。然而，事情并沒(méi)有如我們所希望的那樣發(fā)展，因?yàn)橐幌盗械膯?wèn)題，我們最終沒(méi)能在排位賽中展現(xiàn)出潛力。不過(guò)，我從FE電動(dòng)方程式學(xué)到的是，F(xiàn)E和其他系列賽不同——不到最后一刻，都不存在真正的結(jié)束，所以我們都知道我們必須為比賽而戰(zhàn)。雨在我們將賽車(chē)推向發(fā)車(chē)線的之前就開(kāi)始下了，這讓我們意識(shí)到在這樣的條件下比賽充滿了各種可能。對(duì)于湯姆的賽車(chē)，我們的設(shè)定是賽道將變得干燥，所以我們把賽車(chē)按照干地比賽的設(shè)定進(jìn)行調(diào)校。不幸的是，雨勢(shì)沒(méi)有真正減弱，湯姆在整個(gè)比賽中都在努力維持微弱的抓地力。奧利弗在比賽中控制得很好，他奮力向上，在某個(gè)階段我希望我們能拿到一分。很明顯，比賽的最后變成了一個(gè)‘小賭場(chǎng)‘，但有時(shí)候這就是比賽的美妙之處。作為一項(xiàng)團(tuán)隊(duì)工作，我們花了一些時(shí)來(lái)處理一系列后續(xù)事件，我相信這種情況不會(huì)再發(fā)生了。我要感謝團(tuán)隊(duì)中的每個(gè)人在這種情況下都非常高的自我要求，我們將作為一個(gè)團(tuán)隊(duì)繼續(xù)積極前進(jìn)。”

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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