JAGUAR KEEN TO BOUNCE BACK
Jaguar TCS Racing come to Misano on the back of their worst-scoring weekend so far this season last time out in Tokyo. While driver Nick Cassidy currently still sits second in the championship standings, trailing Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein by two points, the Kiwi admitted that his side needs to step things up: ‘I don’t feel like we’re super efficient right now – we’ve got to improve,’ Cassidy said. ‘That’s going to be key [in Misano].
‘[Nissan and Porsche] have made huge jumps and I think they’re stronger than us right now, so we’ve got to improve. I’m not sure we can do that before Misano but we’ll do our best.’
While Cassidy has some work left to do from eighth on the grid, it’s been so far, so good on the other side of the garage with Mitch Evans bagging pole position. ‘Honestly, I wasn’t expecting that when I woke up this morning,’ Evans said. ‘Normally, these tracks don’t really tend to suit our package as much, but I think the guys and girls at Jaguar have done an incredible job to put it together. It’s a good car for this type of track! We just kept calm, and the car was really consistent throughout qualifying which I wasn’t really experiencing through practice. I was able to kind of build into it and build my confidence. So, full credit to everyone on the team.
‘It’s probably not the track you want to be at pole at, but I’ll take it! I’ll take the points and then we’re obviously focused for the race; it’s going to be a wild one. Let’s see, at the end of the day of how how kind it is to me. But so far, yeah, it’s been a good day.’