Andretti Autosport where known for their constant driver swaps during the first season of the Formula E championship, but according to the team’s director of motorsport development Roger Griffiths, the plan was always to rotate the drivers.

The American team wanted to share the second seat amongst its drivers from other motorsport disciplines it competes in such as IndyCar, Indy Lights, Global Rallycross and Pro Mazda.

The team wanted to have a full-season driver in the other car, so they could get some consistent data from the car whilst also finding ways to improve the cars performance.

“The plan was to have one full season driver, which was going to be Franck Montagny but became Jean-Eric Vergne, but at Andretti we have a stable of 12 drivers and we wanted to look at rotating the drivers through the program because we have lots of experienced drivers in our team, especially in street racing.”

“When we signed Charles Pic at the beginning of the season, we thought he would be with us for the remainder, but unfortunately for commercial reasons that could only be one race. Matthew Brabham is someone we have high hopes for in IndyCar racing. Brabham is a very fast driver and we were hopeful he would be part of the team, but he found it challenging and he found it tough to be dropped in the way he was in Uruguay, but he did a pretty good job.”

Marco Andretti, son of Michael Andretti also had a go in the car in Buenos Aires. The team were hopeful that he could race again in Miami but due to re-structure of testing rules with the new aero kits in IndyCar he could only do one race.

The team then turned to Scott Speed who had done a lot of testing with the team at the start of the season at Donington Park.

“We wanted Marco to do more than one race. However, due to the changes in testing in IndyCar with the aero kits that could not happen, as his primary program is IndyCar. Then we looked at Scott Speed, who had done some testing for us earlier in the year.”

“We already knew that Scott was quick in the car, we couldn’t put him in the car before due to his Rallycross commitments with us, but it was an easy decision for us to put him in the car when he became available. We knew we would lose Scott in Moscow for the X games so we brought in Justin Wilson for the Russian race.”

“We were hoping to run Justin again in London, but due to Honda’s Pike’s Peak commitment, we lost Justin for the last round and we signed Simona De Silvestro. All the drivers really have been within the Andretti family, but we realised that this situation is less than ideal and our goals for next season is to have a consistent driver line-up from start to finish,” said Roger Griffiths.

With Andretti Autosport finishing fifth in the teams standings this season, which the American team were disappointed to finish. Roger Griffiths does concede that by changing the driver line-up for the majority of the season has not helped their chances of fighting for the title, but he feels other factors also played a part in their finishing position.