Team boss De Vries: 'Today was the high point of the high point'

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15 August 2021 at 19:56
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With a seventh place in Berlin during the final e-Prix of the season Nyck de Vries secured the Formula E world championship. This is the first time that a Dutchman has become world champion in motor sport.

Title needs some time to sink in

"For me personally, it still has to sink in a bit. I don't quite realize it yet," De Vries told Motorsport.com. "It's been ten years since I won a world championship. In 2010 and 2011 I won twice in karting. In the end nobody can take this away from me and that is what counts and that makes me happy."

De Vries had some luck on his side in Berlin. Three of his main title rivals did not make it to the finish. "Of course I regret what happened to Mitch [Evans] and Edo [Mortara], because they deserved to fight until the end. It was tremendously close throughout the championship."

High point of the highlight

Even for Ian James, team boss of Mercedes' Formula E team, the title still has to sink in. "As with Nyck, it will take a while for me to realise it, because this series is designed in such a way that you never know what's going to happen. Today was pretty much the culmination of the culmination."

It was a season of highs and lows for Mercedes, though. "We made some mistakes ourselves, that's for sure, and there were times when we were unlucky and others had that too, but in the end it worked out well." For Mercedes, it is the first title in Formula E, in which it has competed as a team since last season. "Mercedes-Benz has 127 years of motorsport heritage and then to be world champion here for the first time, we're going to enjoy that for a while," he said.