Formula E: Mixed emotions for winner Mortara 🎥
GENEVA IS WRC THIRD Despite his fourth win of the season in the final race in South Korea, Edoardo Mortara has to settle for third place in the world championship. The Mercedes factory team with Belgian Stoffel Vandoorne is the world champion.
Races 15 and 16 on a 2.6-kilometer circuit in the South Korean capital of Seoul brought the 2022 Formula E World Championship to a close. After retiring on Saturday, Edoardo Mortara in the car of ROKiT Venturi Racing, a customer team of Mercedes, secured his fourth victory of the season on Sunday morning CEST.
Starting from second place, Mortara snatched the lead from pole setter Antonio Felix da Costa on the second lap with an impressive maneuver and did not relinquish it again until the finish after 34 laps (see video).
Master of constancy
Unfortunately, the Geneva driver no longer played a role in the fight for the world championship title due to the zero on the previous day - the fifth in the 2022 season. In the end, only Stoffel Vandoorne from the Mercedes EQ factory team and the previous day's winner Mitch Evans from Jaguar Racing fought it out between themselves.
The Belgian, who arrived in South Korea with a nice points lead, could no longer be displaced from the top of the standings, which he successfully defended thanks to his consistency. The former McLaren GP driver only won the race in Monaco, but only had one retirement and otherwise finished in the points every time - that's how you become a champion.
With the points scored by last year's champion Nyck de Vries (in ninth place in the world championship, only half as many as Vandoorne), the Mercedes EQ Formula E team once again secured the team championship. In 2023, with the new Gen3 cars, McLaren will take over the Germans' place with the same organizational structure.
Four wins this season were not enough
Vice world champion Evans and Mortara, who is now third in the world championship, each have four victories to their name, but they also had to deal with more accidents and incidents that cost them points. Having held the championship lead during the course of this season - after races 2 to 4 as well as after rounds 10 and 11 - the Geneva native could not really be happy about the victory in Korea either.
Edoardo Mortara: "It was a very good last day of racing. But to be honest, there's still a lot of frustration in me. There was more in it for us over the course of the season. At the previous double rounds in New York and London we weren't competitive enough and also made mistakes. Otherwise, we were fast everywhere. I therefore have mixed feelings."
A year ago, the Italian-Swiss (born, raised and resident in Geneva) already had the world championship title in his sights and then "only" finished second overall behind Dutchman Nyck de Vries on Mercedes in the electric racing series, which will be awarded a world championship title for the first time in 2021.
Two disappointing season from Buemi
Sébastien Buemi only scored two more points thanks to ninth place in the final race, the 100th round of Formula E since its debut in the fall of 2014. Nevertheless, as in the previous year, his eighth electric season ended in disappointment.
In total, the Vaudois only scored points five times, so that the champion of the second interannual season 2015/16 has to settle for 15th place in the championship. Fifth place in Race 1 of New York was his best result and also from Nissan e.dams.
Formula E 2022 World Championship Final Standings
