Liam Lawson recently stated that advice from Formula E star Nick Cassidy will come in handy with Formula 1‘s new electrified regulations cycle, but it appears that hope may be blocked.
The Kiwi is entering a second season with Racing Bulls, his first full term with the Faenza-based squad, amid F1’s new era of radical technical regulations.
With the new rulebook enforcing cars to run 50-50 hybrid power units, the skill of energy conservation has never been more necessary.
What might be a new dexterity for F1 drivers is, of course, an old technique for FE drivers, and Lawson recently cited his countryman’s aptitude for it, dubbing him “the best” at energy management to talkSPORT, adding that Cassidy would be someone he would hope to “be speaking to a lot more, asking for advice.”
But Cassidy, speaking exclusively to Motorsport Week ahead of his third-place LMP2 finish in the Daytona 24 Hours, explained that a current additional job in F1 would likely prevent that.
“Yeah, I mean, it was super nice of him [Lawson] to say that,” the Citroen driver said. “Obviously, I wish him the best, just being a fellow Kiwi, but I’m affiliated with another F1 team myself and in a development role, so there’s very little I can probably help him with just because of a conflict of interest.”
Cassidy added: “But I think the guys who’ve gone from Gen2 to Gen3 and Gen3 to Gen4 in Formula E have gone through different rulesets, different challenges and generations of car where you gain quite a lot of experience on not just how to save energy, but what’s the best for lap time, what’s the best for balance, a lot of other bits of software that probably aren’t spoken about in media because they’re bits of performance, and I think those things are really valuable to Formula 1 right now.”
“It’s made me interested to follow closely that world because I think there’s bits that are relevant to what I’m doing in FE and Hypercar as well. So it’s nice being across the three programmes and obviously in my role where I am, I’ll try to give the most input that I can to help on that side.
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