Three years and 16 days later, Felipe Drugovich is again racing in single-seaters this weekend on the São Paulo E-Prix after signing a multi-year cope with Andretti for the 2025/26 Formulation E marketing campaign. The Brazilian famously gained the Formulation 2 championship in 2022 and has since then been ready for his alternative on the F1 grid, serving as reserve and check driver for the Aston Martin squad. Nonetheless, the times of doing simply FP1s are over — there have been seven in complete, the latest on the 2025 Hungarian Grand Prix in August. Any further, he’ll begin a race weekend and see it via behind the wheel.
Felipe Drugovich, Andretti Formulation E Staff
Felipe Drugovich, Andretti Formulation E Staff
“It is mentally one thing that I wanted, and I actually really feel like I am in the best place now,” Drugovich advised Motorsport.com in São Paulo. “You’ve gotten a purpose, you’ve a light-weight on the finish of the tunnel, you recognize what course you want to observe. And that purpose is simply to get higher and in the future win this championship,” he added. “So every thing is pushed in that course. Mentally I am tremendous happy with it and total tremendous joyful simply to be right here.”
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The choice to decide to Formulation E
It wasn’t a straightforward course of. It was a very long time ready for a name — even being shut a few occasions, standing by for Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso. He additionally dabbled in endurance racing, competing within the Le Mans 24 Hours with Cadillac Whelen during the last two years, in addition to 5 rounds of the European Le Mans Sequence in 2024. He even bought his palms on IndyCar equipment throughout a check with Chip Ganassi Racing at Barber Motorsports Park in October 2024. Nonetheless, from all of that, it was Formulation E that caught with him after he had a primary style of it racing for Mahindra in Berlin’s double-header, changing Nyck de Vries and scoring factors within the second race. “It was an extended resolution. It began again in 2023, after I was sort of introducing myself into the Formulation E paddock. I did the rookie check, I had some talks with Andretti again then. I did not really feel prefer it was the best transfer. And even this yr, I did not know if it was one thing that may be the best transfer. “Purely as a result of I did not know if I would really like the kind of racing, as a result of it is so completely different. However then I did the Berlin races and I really actually loved it. So I used to be like, okay, it is in all probability time to tug the set off and do it.”
“I really feel significantly better”Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin
Felipe Drugovich, Aston Martin
Requested whether or not he feels at peace having left the F1 paddock and now being 100% targeted on Formulation E, Drugovich had no doubts. “Yeah, I really feel significantly better, to be honest. Actually cool to have my very own place, my very own alternative, simply to maneuver ahead and hopefully collect good outcomes quickly.” Regardless of his earlier success in single-seaters and loads of kilometres in F1 equipment, Drugovich could be very a lot conscious of the challenges that lie forward for him this season. “I feel essentially the most troublesome factor in Formulation E, coming from some other sequence, is simply racing. Making an attempt to learn the races from inside. That is essentially the most troublesome factor — to have sufficient psychological capability left to have the ability to learn races and be proactive with that,” he mentioned. “I do not know, to be honest, in the mean time,” he added when requested about setting any particular goal. “I feel the best strategy to each single race is simply attempting to study as a lot as I can, do one of the best I can, and I feel it is simply too early to set any objectives in the mean time.”
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