Today, Stoffel Vandoorne managed to win the second ePrix in Rome for Mercedes. In doing this, the Mercedes driver and team mate of Nyck de Vries took his second victory in the electric racing class.
In an interview immediately after the race, the Belgian reacted elated about taking the win: “It tastes good today, to take home the victory. It feels like we needed this yesterday, especially after the pole position and the speed we showed yesterday."
Staying hopeful
Vandoorne stated that keeping hope a good strategy from Mercedes eventually got him the win. "But we kept believing, was confident in the car again today and made the moves when it counted," said Vandoorne.
The driver continued: "The team again executed a perfect strategy with the attack mode, so in the end it made my life a little bit easier to have that gap with Alex Sims behind. He was kind of catching up at the end, so with the safety car i wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I had my fanboost left and i used it on the last lap to be able to defend that position."
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