The trait Vandoorne rediscovered to claim Formula E's era-ending title

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Jake Boxall-Legge

Sep 19, 2022, 2:19 PM

After Nyck de Vries was crowned Formula E champion in 2021, his Mercedes team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne stepped forward this season as the Gen2 era and his team bowed out. As he did on the way to the GP2 crown in 2015, the Belgian achieved a peerless level of consistency and was only outside the points once, with his sole win in Monaco sufficient to head off a chasing pack headed by Mitch Evans

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The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and Mercedes has burned so very brightly during its three-year tenure in Formula E. It won both of last year’s crowns, then made the decision to bow out after one more season, and was hoping to leave the series on the back of a successful title defence.

It duly did so. The German manufacturer and new champion Stoffel Vandoorne faced incredibly stiff competition through the year amid a thrilling four-way battle for the title. But the 30-year-old’s irrepressible consistency and diligence behind the wheel proved to be the deciding factors, handing him a first championship crown since his 2015 GP2 Series triumph.

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Jake Boxall-Legge F1 Writer

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.

The trait Vandoorne rediscovered to claim Formula E's era-ending title

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