Cassidy gets crunching in the Big Apple
During the pre-weekend Jakarta press conference early last month, Nick Cassidy’s sense of irony was the only thing that remained dry amid the typically humid climate in Indonesia. “It’s actually my first press conference this year, which says something about my season,” he quipped, unaware that his season was going to become even more fraught that weekend and at the following race in Marrakech. As a team, Envision’s lean period had begun with mixed fortunes the previous time out in Berlin. So the British squad, usually so competitive in New York City, needed to tap into that form for a confidence boost at Formula E’s outing in Brooklyn.
Owing to the pandemic and a busy racing schedule, Kiwi Cassidy had hardly seen his parents during the past three years. Mr and Mrs C therefore jetted to New York to spend some of the week with their son, taking in the sights together. But they weren’t prepared for the spectacle that he treated them to on Saturday afternoon, when a “wall” of water contrived to throw the race into chaos.
Although the brutality of a sudden downpour had its part to play in the race, a lighter peppering of precipitation added more variation to a Formula E
