Amlin Aguri driver and Buenos Aires race winner Antonio Felix da Costa has told Autosport magazine that DTM remains his priority and will influence any decisions over a 2015-16 Formula E race seat.

Beijing will host the 2015/16 FE season opener on October 17, a month later than the inaugural season and the same weekend as the DTM’s season finale, when da Costa will be on BMW duty at Hockenheim.

He will already miss next weekend’s London season finale due to DTM’s Norisring round – with Amlin Aguri enlisting ex-F1 driver Sakon Yamamoto in his place – and the additional clash is slowing progress on securing a 2015/16 seat.

“At the moment, DTM is my priority, I’m having so much fun in that championship,” da Costa said.

“Formula E, it’s been very good to be here and involved from the beginning, and it’s getting very serious now. It’s not like the first few races where everybody comes to see what it looks like. I’d like to do it again next year, and a few teams are interested, but the problem is that I cannot give priority to this at the moment as I’m contracted to DTM. If the races clash, that’s my priority.”

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