The first round of this new championship will start in JEDDAH and finish in HONG KONG in November 2024.
Monaco driver Lisa Caussin-Battaglia and her team-mate Phelim Kavanah (USA), under contract to TEAM BLUE RISING, will be defending the Indian team’s colours in this “electric formula” E1 Race Bird series boat competition.
Unfortunately, the weekend got off to a bad start in qualifying for the Monegasque team when they hit a course buoy (social network info: Lisa Caussin: “I wanted to give the buoy a hug… it didn’t appreciate it and neither did my boat”). The team finished P6 from pole position.
The semi-finals (4 & 4 boats) Team Blue Rising (India) finished P2 in its heat and qualified for the super final (4 teams Team RAFA Spain, Team MIAMI – USA, Team BRADY – USA):
1st “Super Final” heat: Lisa Caussin-Battaglia (Blue Rising) finishes P4
2nd “Super Final” heat: Phelim Kavanah (Blue Rising) placed P3
Taking the two heats together, Team BLUE RISING finished 4th overall.
A satisfactory result for this 1st GP in JEDDAH despite the breakage of one of the foils for the Monegasque, it’s now time for the return to Europe in Venice-Italy (May), Porto Banus-Spain and Geneva-Switzerland (June), Monaco (July) and Rotterdam-Netherlands (September).
The training sessions will be decisive for the rest of this UIM Electric Formula World Championship for the Monaco driver from Team Blue Rising.
(Translation Deepl.com)
