Uncertain future for Sacha Fenestraz in Formula E: "I was expecting a much stronger year"

Even in his second full Formula E season, Sacha Fenestraz has yet to make a breakthrough. Two fourth places in Monaco and Jakarta 2023 were the best results in the 33 E-Prix that the Franco-Argentinian has contested in the electric series so far. Despite mixed results, Fenestraz is hoping to compete for Nissan again next season.

"The reality is my contract carries on with Nissan," said Fenestraz when asked by e-Formula.news about his future. But not without immediately qualifying: "So if everything goes well, I should still be here for the next two years."

After a season in which Fenestraz scored 26 points, 130 fewer than his team-mate Oliver Rowland, this is anything but certain. While the Brit finished fourth in the world championship with two race wins, Fenestraz only finished the season in 17th place overall and is still waiting for his first Formula E podium - although he even drove two more races than Rowland last season.

"As everybody knows the season was a little bit difficult for me, unexpected," he says. "Honestly from the beginning of the season I was expecting a much stronger year and unfortunately it didn't happen. Also personally it had been a bit of an up and down season emotionally and psychologically." Nevertheless, in his opinion, he is taking "a lot of positives" from the 2024 season.

"These difficult times, these shitty times, as I call them, make you stronger," he continues. "You learn from things like that. We all have ups and downs in our career." It's no different for other Formula E drivers, including his team-mate, he emphasises. "Olli is one of them, Cassidy, Felix da Costa, many of them had these ups and downs. Maybe a year or two years later they bounced back and now Olli, for example, has been fighting for the championship, and two years ago he was struggling."

"The only positive I think on my side is that I had this deep down moment in my career earlier, early in my age. So, I prefer to have it now than later on. And now it can only get better for me. I can only learn and it makes me stronger," he is convinced. "And also it teaches me what not to do in the future and what to do in the future, perhaps in this kind of situation."

Nissan has not yet announced any drivers for the 2024/25 season. However, Oliver Rowland is certain to remain with the team. Whether Sacha Fenestraz will be allowed to contest another season for the Japanese brand will become clear in the coming weeks.