{"id":148780,"date":"2025-09-17T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148780\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:44:10","slug":"formula-e-news-nick-cassidy-confirmed-for-dual-wec-formula-e-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148780\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E news: Nick Cassidy confirmed for dual WEC, Formula E program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/BA012378_lZrbnfcH_20250713034514-2048x2048-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Cassidy confirmed for dual WEC, Formula E program\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNick Cassidy will join Citroen from Jaguar. Image: Alastair Staley\/LAT Images<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy was recently announced as part of Peugeot\u2019s Hypercar line-up and will move from Jaguar to join Citroen in Formula E.<\/p>\n<p>He will be joined by two-time Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne from DS Penske, who will also form part of Peugeot\u2019s Hypercar line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Citroen and Peugeot are both French brands under the Stellantis umbrella.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy and Vergne represent one of the strongest line-ups in Formula E. Cassidy has 10 wins to his name while Vergne has 11.<\/p>\n<p>A championship has eluded Cassidy to date, twice finishing runner-up while with Jaguar.<\/p>\n<p>Citroen\u2019s entry into Formula E sees it take over from Maserati. The team has elected for wholesale change year on year with Cassidy and Vergne replacing Jake Hughes and Stoffel Vandoorne.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Hughes nor Vandoorne have been announced at other Formula E teams for the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Vergne has been replaced at DS Penske by former McLaren driver Taylor Barnard alongside Maximilian Gunther.<\/p>\n<p>A replacement for Cassidy at Jaguar alongside Mitch Evans has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Cassidy will join Citroen from Jaguar. Image: Alastair Staley\/LAT Images Cassidy was recently announced as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,100278,6490,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-148780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-nick-cassidy","15":"tag-slot3","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}