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While our weekend at home didn’t unfold how we wanted, or as we wished, there were positives to take, as pure potential and performance emerged but failed to align with Lady Luck’s cruel grasp.
Relive the 2023 Monaco E-Prix from our perspective, the Principality’s only racing team, as we dive into a challenging yet encouraging weekend.
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. There really is no place like home.
Monaco is hallowed ground in motorsport and ensures that racing on home turf is always an incredibly humbling and enchanting experience.
Having the chance to put on as how on the streets we love so dearly is an honour we’re proud to embrace.
It’s a privilege in the highest regard, and we can’t wait to do it all over again next season.
The Monaco E-Prix was the first race this season to feature Formula E’s traditional single-day format, and with less time than usual to pour over data, it was vital to hit the ground running.
When we took to the track in our first practice session of the weekend, our early pace was clear, with Maximilian Günther setting the third-fastest time and Edoardo Mortara bagging fourth.
The young German built on this form by setting the fastest time and therefore, the benchmark in FP2, with both cars showing good pace at both 300kW and 350kW before qualifying.
Qualifying has been our strong suit this season, and Monaco didn’t buck the trend as both Edo and Max again delivered the goods to be in with a shot at pole position.
The duo launched their first efforts from Group B, and by slotting inside the top four, secured their place inside the duels for a sixth time in a total of seven race weekends this season.
As the pacesetter, Max went up against Sergio Sette Camara in the Quarter-Finals and faced Jake Hughes in the Semis, who had defeated Edo in the previous stage.
Max unfortunately fell short of the McLaren, but by lining up fourth, and accompanied by Edo in seventh, we had a strong platform to fight from in the race.
Due to Monaco’s long lap length, high-speed nature and energy sensitivity, conserving energy was a key factor throughout the 2023 race.
With this in mind, Edo and Max adopted an intensive energy saving strategy at the start, but quickly fought back with added effect after losing ground in the opening phase.
The pair fought together in unison and carved through the field as one. The performance was clinical, the strategy, precise, and very early on we were in a good position.
Max was locked in an intense battle with Hughes and Dan Ticktum in the battle for fifth while Edo, who was sitting in his team-mate’s slipstream was also waiting to pounce.
It all started to unravel in the second half, and as the need to save energy became lower, the competition became more intense.
A stack-up in the hairpin saw Edo lose his front wing on lap 21 when Max, who was in front, was forced to take evasive action.
With a loss in downforce, the Swiss-Italian started to fall down the order while Max came to blows with Ticktum to be fed into the wall and out of the race only three kilometres later.
This left Edo as our only remaining runner, and he fought gallantly until the chequered flag by nearly scoring points, despite his extensive damage.
Although our weekend ended in disappointment, we reset and move forward to the Jakarta E-Prix on 4-5 June.
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