With a deficit of 33 points in the teams’ classification, Audi in its premiere season with the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team begins the season finale with a total of 94 points still up for grabs with one race each on Saturday and Sunday. With the momentum of six consecutive podium results, a new record in Formula E, the teams’ title in the fourth season could be won after the team previously clinched one third-placed and two runner-up results in the classification. The team approaches the end of the first era of Formula E with an unassailable total of 31 podium finishes in 45 races. Only a few weeks earlier in Berlin, the team became the first to score the maximum available 47 points during a race day. The new era of Formula E with the new stronger Generation 2 car will begin in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in December 2018.
For Lucas di Grassi, the New York City E-Prix marks his first race since becoming a father. Ten days ago, his wife, Bianca, gave birth to their first child, son Leonardo. “It has been a life changing experience and I am so excited to be a father. Both my wife and son are doing well and they will be supporting me from São Paulo this weekend,” says di Grassi. Leonardo is also joining his father in the cockpit of the Audi e-tron FE04 with the fact that di Grassi put a sticker on his helmet in honor of his son’s birth.