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Alex Lynn: “Monaco is a real challenge”

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Alex Lynn, one of the Mahindra Racing drivers for this weekend’s Monaco E-Prix, looked ahead to competing on the streets of the Principality this weekend.

The twenty-seven-year-old driver from Great Britain scored a podium last time out in Valencia Round six, managing to claw back into the top three despite an incident with Norman Nato (ROKiT Venturi Racing).

Lynn has previous experience at this track, as he competed there in the 2019 Monaco E-Prix for DS Virgin Racing (now Envision Virgin Racing) and in GP2 (now Formula 2), the Formula One feeder series, in 2016 for the DAMS team.

It’s that race that you want to win but, in the same token, it’s worth exactly the same amount of points as every other race, so you need to drive the race and not the occasion,” said Lynn about the track and the environment of Monaco.

His team boss, Dilbagh Gill, said the mix of the heritage and history of the Monaco circuit with electric cars was very interesting. He aims, alongside the whole team, to score a maximum amount of points before the next double-header in Puebla, Mexico.

Alexander Sims, who drives the #29 M7 Electro for Mahindra, said Formula E’s race on the full Circuit de Monaco will give more credibility to the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, as well as provide a good challenge for the drivers in the tight sequences of corners.

The thirty-three-year-old was seventh in the final standings of the 2019 Monaco E-Prix, on a special configuration of the track: Formula E went down the hill at Sainte-Devote corner, and the chicane that was at the exit of the Monaco tunnel was turned into a hairpin. Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah) won that race for his team.

Despite never having competed in Monaco, Sims approaches the rest of the season with a clear goal: “My aim this season has to be to consistently score solid points at every race and of course bring home those podium finishes like I did in Rome.”

Round seven of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship will take place on 8 May 2021 at 16:00 CET (15:00 BST) in Monaco.

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