Mahindra Racing's Felix Rosenqvist is hoping to find a return to form from prior rounds of Season Four ahead of tomorrow's inaugural Zurich E-Prix.
Rosenqvist started the Season Four campaign strongly, claiming victory in the second part of the season-opening doubleheader Hong Kong E-Prix before claiming victory in Marrakesh one month later.
After suffering from multiple retirements which saw the driver miss out on further victories at Mexico City and Rome, Rosenqvist currently sits in third place in the Drivers' Championship with 86 points, effectively out of contention of this season's title fight.
"I think it’s a good chance for us to return to form," Rosenqvist told Motorsport Week.
"Even if we thought Berlin would be the one weekend for us it wasn’t really the case but still, we know why, so as long as we can put the car sort of in the window where we want to I’m quite confident we will be quick.
"We learned a big lesson from that weekend and hopefully we will be better now.”
With this weekend's Zurich E-Prix marking the first closed-circuit race in Switzerland for 64 years, Formula E effectively sees a reset, with teams facing a lack of data on the 11 turn 2.46km-long street circuit.
"It’s always nice with a new track, it’s the same for everyone so it’s about who will find the little tricks first, both when it comes to setup and driving," he explained.
"[It’s] always a different challenge when coming to a different circuit, I think the track itself… I mean, it’s a typical street circuit, it has a very very twisty section and two very long straights with the hairpin.
"I think you sort of don’t have everything but you have very slow corners and very long straights. It’s a bit like Monza or something like that. I think it’s a good overtaking opportunity on the straight and yeah, overall it looks like, next to the water it’s a very nice setting and that’s always nice.”
Due to temperatures set to be high in Zurich this weekend, Rosenqvist predicted an "interesting" race in terms of energy conservation and expects battery temperatures to be critical:
"I think the energy is interesting to senses that it’s going to be quite hot so the battery temperatures is going to be critical and then also you have a very tight section where you cannot overtake I think so you will be able to defend a lot in that section," he added.
"You’ll have a very good overtaking opportunity at the other end of the track so yeah, I think for the racing it’s going to be quite open with strategy.”
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