In his first interview since becoming a Jaguar TCS Racing driver, Nick Cassidy joins hosts Andrew van de Burgt and Sam Smith to look ahead to his new career chapter as he joins old friend Mitch Evans at ‘The Big Cat’.

The challenge of racing for a major manufacturer is touched on, as is the prospect of racing with fellow Kiwi, Mitch Evans in the modern equivalent of the Bruce and Denny show!

Cassidy also has a rueful and engaging look back on a dramatic 2023 season, especially the London EPrix in which he looked to be nailed on to take the title battle against Jake Dennis to the final day before a complex failed team orchestration with Sebastien Buemi played out.

A look ahead to the upcoming Valencia test is also discussed, as well as all the latest news including anticipating the 2024 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship calendar which is expected to have several twists when the final draft of it is issued this week.

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Oliver Rowland joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt in the latest episode of The Race Formula E podcast, as he settles in to life back at his former team Nissan.

The trio discuss Rowland’s turbulent final half season at Mahindra and dig down in to how the switch back to Nissan panned out.

The prospects for the 2024 at Nissan are covered, as is Rowland’s new position as the elder statesman in a team for the first time in Formula E.

The upcoming move in to mandatory pit stops is also debated with Rowland ruminating on how the fast-charging stops will affect the structure of races.

Additionally, Smith and Van de Burgt cover off the latest news including another driver returning to an old team as Lucas di Grassi switches from Mahindra to the Abt Cupra squad.

The inevitable calendar update concludes the episode as the possibility of racing in Shanghai comes on to the horizon and doubts about the Cape Town start to circulate.

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New Maserati MSG Formula E driver Jehan Daruvala joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt to talk about his new challenge as the 2024 grid is completed.

Smith journeyed to Monaco to meet the Indian and his new team boss and the trio talk about Maserati’s aspirations for the new season and about their new facility they moved in to last month. James Rosister also chips in about where the team is presently at and if it can reprise its occasional heroics this coming season.

Also discussed on the podcast is the other recent signings including Nyck de Vries and Edoardo Mortara at Mahindra, as well as the chances of Lucas di Grassi’s homecoming at Abt Cupra.

In the second half of this episode we also look back on some of the more memorable and off-beat moments of the 2023 campaign including Jake Hughes head-butting some debris fencing and Smith being escorted by a herd of goats to the Hyderabad EPrix entrance.

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In a special feature length 2023 season review episode Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by Envision Racing boss Sylvain Filippi to talk through the teams’ most successful campaign to date.

Filippi details key moments in Envision’s title winning season, looking at the key successes, tricky team orchestration at the London EPrix and how Nick Cassidy’s switch from the team to Jaguar played out amid the triumph.

Smith and van de Burgt complete a team by team appraisal of the season and also look at what might be next for teams as Gen3 matures for next season.

The inevitable calendar updates are mulled over as are Sam Bird, Norman Nato and Oliver Rowland’s recent team switches.

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2023 ABB FIA Formula E world champion Jake Dennis joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt for a lookback at the crucial London EPrix event at ExCeL Arena last weekend that saw him crowned as champion.

Dennis describes the tense and chaotic end of the season on his home patch and how he repelled multiple attempts from Envision, Jaguar and Porsche to knock him off his stride.

The UK’s first all-electric single-seater world champion also goes over his season and how consistency, his own brilliance and his teams backing got him over the line.

Smith and van de Burgt also cover off Envision’s incredible rise to be teams’ world champions, Porsche’s capitulation and also how some of the most baffling officiating decisions seen in recent years played out.

The occasional giant killing properties of NIO 333 and Nico Mueller are also explored, and the latest intelligence from a febrile driver Magic Roundabout for 2024 seats is mulled over.

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A bonus edition of The Race’s Formula E podcast lands to look ahead to the third ever London EPrix meeting as the curtain gets ready to come down on the 2023 season.

NEOM McLaren team principal Ian James joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt to talk about the team’s home event and the status of the unique indoors and outdoors venue as it gets set to host the season finale.

Sam and Andrew quiz Ian on NEOM McLaren’s first season after metamorphosing from the 2022 title winning Mercedes EQ operation and what the future might hold for Formula E’s newest entry.

Also covered is the title battle which will see Jake Dennis heading to his home event with a comfortable 24-point margin over Nick Cassidy.

The trio also talk generally on the first Gen3 season which saw teams challenged by initial difficulties, and we ask if the racing has lived up to the pre-season hype.

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Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt are joined by Nissan’s Sacha Fenestraz to review a spectacular Rome EPrix that saw several twists in the hitherto close 2023 title battle.

Jake Dennis emerged as the clear favourite after winning the second race on Sunday, with his joy accelerated by the fact his two most direct championship competitors collided on the second lap.

Also discussed is the catastrophic accident triggered by Sam Bird losing control of his Jaguar and the near misses that ensued, particularly for Antonio Felix da Costa, Edoardo Mortara and Bird himself.

The knock-on effect of that shunt also included some remarkable stories on how new monocoques were allocated throughout the paddock.

Fenestraz describes his pride in Nissan achieving its best result in almost two years, while the Franco-Argentinian also mulls over a promising yet ultimately difficult weekend in which his excellent Saturday qualifying essentially counted for nothing come the race.

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Mitch Evans joins Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt on the latest episode of The Race Formula E podcast looking back at the first ever Portland EPrix.

Evans goes over his incredible run from 20th to fourth position as he kept himself in the title frame with just four races of the 2023 season remaining.

He also describes what’s it like in the white heat of the 22 car peloton after Formula E’s most extreme energy-management race yet.

Nick Cassidy, who could become Evans’ teammate at Jaguar next season, clinched his third victory of the season, and his techniques of accomplishing perfectly executed victories is discussed.

Also on the discussion table is whether or not the style of this racing is attractive to fans, is Jake Dennis now the title favourite, were DS Penske cheating, Maserati and Nissan drivers colliding together and Nico Mueller’s huge car destroying shunt.

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Maximilian Guenther and Pascal Wehrlein made Jakarta a German fiefdom last weekend as the Maserati MSG and Porsche drivers stole the show with a win apiece.

Sam Smith and Andrew van de Burgt decipher how they did it and how Guenther in particular dominated so many sessions and then the second race in the sultry Indonesian conditions.

Nick Cassidy’s messy weekend is also dissected, as is Mitch Evans’ herculean third place, which came just a day after he was drop-kicked out of contention by his own teammate Sam Bird, for a second time this season.

Jake Dennis’ recent form has looked ominous and with his happy hunting ground of the London ExCeL Arena track to come at the end of July, Sam and Andrew discuss whether or not this makes him the title favourite.

The recent departure of Formula E CEO Jamie Reigle is also mulled over as the all-electric world championship now enters a new epoch under the stewardship of new CEO, Jeff Dodds.

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The Monaco EPrix review majors on Nick Cassidy’s shock emergence as a title contender after claiming back-to-back wins with a convincing performance on the streets of the Principality.

Host Jack Nicholls and Formula E correspondent Sam Smith are joined by Andretti’s group commercial director officer Jim Wright for some lively debate on the merits of the extreme energy saving peloton style racing, as well as all the discussion points from an action-packed EPrix.

The dissipation of Porsche’s form is picked over in addition to the resurgence of Nissan powered cars and the ongoing wretched form of Maserati MSG’s Edoardo Mortara.

Nicholls makes up new words, Smith’s disposition as a miserable Northener is again made fun of and Wright gives some details on Avalanche Andretti’s promising season as well as discussing recent details that The Race uncovered about next seasons calendar.

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