Formula E world champion Jake Dennis knows a thing or two about how to set up a car having finished in the top three in all but five races back in the 2022-23 season that he claimed the title.
As he continues to drive for Andretti into his fifth term with the American outfit, he is still yet to finish lower than seventh in the championship.
A victory in every season to go with his neat record shows just how adept the 29-year-old is when it comes to handling the electric machinery.
Many drivers have proven in the past that it can be a difficult art to master, but the Brit has taken to it like a duck to water ever since his maiden 2020-21 campaign.
Jake Dennis shares ‘floor it’ Formula E development
Formula E will introduce four-wheel drive in 2024-25, which could see lap times drop by as much as two seconds per lap.
Speaking to RacingNews365 after conducting two private tests in the new Gen3 EVO car, Dennis was positive about the latest changes.
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“It’s pretty impressive, you just basically come out the corner and floor it,” he said. “You can be really struggling with grip on two-wheel drive, and then you just activate the four-wheel drive and it fixes all your issues.
“So I think, just from a driver’s side, that’s always amazing how four-wheel drive works.
“It’s revolutionary, and to bring it into a single-seater for the first time is a serious bit of kit in the evolvement of what Formula E are doing.”
When can four-wheel drive be activated?
Four-wheel drive will be enabled during qualifying duels, at the start of the race, and when attack mode is activated.
The acceleration of the car now has the capacity to be 30% faster than Formula 1, with an astounding 0-60 time of 1.82 seconds.
Whether or not faster cars make for better racing will be entirely dependent on how the drivers approach this new era of racing.
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With just six weeks to go before the season starts, every team will be hard at work to understand the new technology and make sure that they are in a good position to hit the ground running.
Before the Sao Paulo E-Prix, there is a pre-season test at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in early November, allowing everyone to fully familiarise themselves under the same conditions.