Stoffel Vandoorne has explained how a blank dashboard affected his FormulaE race in Saudi Arabia, which ended with him being hit with a 24-second time penalty. DiriyahEPrix
made his way past to secure the final point of the Saturday race.
Explaining the issue, the reigning champion recalled that he had lost all of the steering wheel functions in the car early on in the race, which precluded him from talking on the radio and selecting the attack mode activation. "I simply couldn't activate it. I couldn't hear anything anymore, so I tried to take it doing the procedure, but I knew I was gonna get disqualified.Stoffel Vandoorne, DS PenskeAs Vandoorne had no readouts on his dashboard, he was unable to work out how much energy he was saving - and, to his surprise, he found that he was 4% up on useable energy compared to the cars around him late on.
"OK, [Saturday] was maybe a little bit better for me, and I managed to get into the duels for the first time this year, but we're still too far away.
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