Stephane Sarrazin feels that his team needs to find answers to the problems they have been having recently. The Venturi driver finished the Monaco ePrix in seventh position, but the French driver had problems throughout the race.

In Long Beach, the 39-year old was unable to get his second car into first gear during the car swap, which cost him a full minute. In Monaco, the same problem happened again, but the Venturi driver only lost an extra ten seconds to everybody else.

“I came into the pits again and my second car would not start. I lost ten seconds and then I was too far away from the others in front, so I did not have any chance to finish better than seventh. It is a shame as we have a very good car and it was possible to finish maybe on the podium or at least fifth but not seventh,” said Sarrazin.

The French driver also struggled with his energy consumption throughout the race, as he was draining his battery much faster than anybody else on the grid. Sarrazin believes that his team have not found the correct setup with the car and that’s why Venturi are struggling so much.

“It was much higher than everybody else’s, so we don’t have the right strategy yet, which means we need to improve ourselves,” said the 39-year old.

Venturi managed to leap-frog the Trulli Formula E team in Monaco, to put them into ninth place in the teams championship. However, for a name like Venturi who have been successful in building electric cars, this has to be seen as a disappointing season.