{"id":297790,"date":"2026-02-18T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297790\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:35:13","slug":"driver-reaction-from-the-2026-jeddah-e-prix-round-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/297790\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver reaction from the 2026 Jeddah E-Prix, Round 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANT\u00d3NIO F\u00c9LIX DA COSTA<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\" js-faded-image fade-in-on-load object-fit-cover-picture__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2261650014.jpg\" alt=\"2261650014\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChanging teams is hard, it\u2019s very hard getting to know a new car, new people, everything. And it took me five races to win a race with Jaguar and, to be honest, in a way I feel like we could have done it earlier, but to do it in just five races, that&#8217;s a big achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you join a team as victorious as Jaguar TCS Racing and obviously me being a previous champion and an ambitious athlete, this is always the goal, right? This is where we set the bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo have Mitch as a teammate has been really good. He&#8217;s been really, really good, and we&#8217;re helping each other. Today in the race, he let me go when I was on ATTACK MODE and that was just awesome, man. We&#8217;re getting a really good dynamic together and yeah, hopefully it keeps going and hopefully both of us can be there at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>S\u00c9BASTIEN BUEMI<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\" js-faded-image fade-in-on-load object-fit-cover-picture__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2261650014.jpg\" alt=\"2261650014\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKind of relieved (with this result) to be honest because, you know, as I said, in Mexico I&#8217;ve thrown it away in turn one starting from pole. In Miami, the team did not communicate well and we impeded people, started last but had a mega race. Yesterday we just had a bad set of tires and we qualified last, and today everything went okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t make mistakes, the team did great, and we had a good set of tires and we had a good result. So, hopefully we can iron out all those small issues and start to score some decent points like today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s always hard to predict but obviously I think what the team has done and evolved in the last, you know, six months is good. We seem to see a lot more performance\u2014not always the result we hope for\u2014but good performance. And if you have performance, at some point you get the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OLIVER ROWLAND<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\" js-faded-image fade-in-on-load object-fit-cover-picture__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2261651000.jpg\" alt=\"2261651000\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty down and disappointed and lacking a bit of confidence after the last couple of races. So I thought it was really important to try and come back with something good. Honestly, I was really happy with the car in the race. I mean, I had a good balance, lacked a little bit of efficiency compared to da Costa, but much better today than yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I&#8217;ve just been there for him (speaking about protege Arvid Lindblad attending the Jeddah E-Prix)\u00a0 for a long time. So he asked me if he could come this weekend, and I think he just wanted to come and support me. I&#8217;m obviously doing eight of the first ten Formula 1 races with him, so I&#8217;m looking forward to Melbourne, so I think he wanted to just come and show his support for what I do in the same way that I do with him. But yeah, of course, if I can be there in any capacity I will be, but yeah, he&#8217;s got an important season ahead of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DAN TICKTUM<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" class=\" js-faded-image fade-in-on-load object-fit-cover-picture__img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2261644444.jpg\" alt=\"2261644444\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not the kind of man that celebrates a fifth place. I think from where we were, there isn&#8217;t a huge amount more we could have achieved. I think it was quite clear that the Porsche and the Mahindra, I would say, were the fastest. Porsche struggled today, but I don&#8217;t absolutely know why.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it&#8217;s hard. I feel like I have to absolutely nail a lap to be there, which we seemed to do a bit more in the 350kw in practice and seemed to be quite fast. But in the quali today, the group (Group A) was much harder than Group B. We did a bit of a different strategy with the tires and I made a small mistake on the best lap, so it was a bit on me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m normally quite self-critical of my performances in races and in general, but I think we all did a very good job today. I think I got a good start, overtook a couple of cars, got past a couple of cars in the saving phase while managing to also save compared to others around. ATTACK MODES were good, a little bit on the safe side maybe with the first one, but I don&#8217;t think we would have achieved much more than what we did today, so I think it\u2019s a good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More from Formula E<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/ways-to-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WATCH: How to watch every Formula E race in your country<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/news\/822334\/trailer-driver-returns-for-season-2-on-amazon-prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UNMISSABLE: Watch the brand-new season of &#8216;Driver&#8217; on Amazon Prime\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/calendar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CALENDAR: Here&#8217;s every race set for the 2025\/26 Formula E season<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/download-the-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FOLLOW: Download the Formula E App on iOS or Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TICKETS: Secure your grandstand seats and buy Formula E race tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiaformulae.com\/en\/video\/boxset\/485829\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HIGHLIGHTS: Catch up with every race from Formula E IN FULL<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seatunique.com\/sport-tickets\/motorsport\/formula-e-hospitality-tickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HOSPITALITY: Experience Formula E and world-class motorsport as a VIP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANT\u00d3NIO F\u00c9LIX DA COSTA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cChanging teams is hard, it\u2019s very hard getting to know a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-297790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}