The fumble that inadvertently aided da Costa in Formula E's Cape Town classic

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Jake Boxall-Legge

Feb 27, 2023, 12:48 PM

In one of Formula E’s finest races yet, Antonio da Costa scored a stunning first win for Porsche with late moves to advance from outside the top 10. Here's how he made the electric series' first visit to Cape Town one for the ages

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In 1488, the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias became the first European to navigate the Cape of Good Hope, the peninsula that protrudes from the land that would later become part of South Africa in the modern era. He named it “The Cape of Storms” before it gained its current moniker later on, and it became a key landmark in early European sea trade to Asia as global exploration by boat later reached its zenith in the 1500s.

Perhaps it’s fitting, then, that on Formula E’s first visit to the bustling trade hub that spawned just to the north, it was another Portugal native who successfully traversed the Cape; from 11th on the grid, Porsche’s Antonio Felix da Costa weathered the storm to clinch his first victory of the season in scintillating fashion.

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Jake Boxall-Legge Technical Editor

Jake studied engineering at university, as his original ambition was to design racing cars. He was bad at that, and thus decided to write about them instead with an equally limited skillset. The above article is a demonstration of that. In his spare time, Jake enjoys people, places, and things.