Amlin Aguri driver Antonio Felix Da Costa feels that a Formula E car is a very hard car to drive. The 23-year-0ld has driven a wide calibre of cars in his career and he feels that a Formula E car is just as challenging to drive.

The Portuguese driver who is part of the Red Bull young driver program believes that the condensed race day schedule does have an impact on how the drivers drive the car, but he believes that the raw talent of the drivers will shine through due to the condensed time frame.

“A Formula E car is probably the hardest car I have ever driven. The car is just completely different. It is a tricky little machine and it’s hard to explain. For example in qualifying you start your fast lap with a lot more power and you don’t have enough temperature in the brakes or the tyres. This makes it much harder to drive. However, this factor brings the talent out of the race driver. You can really see the risks the drivers take in the car to try and get it on pole position,” said Da Costa.

The 23-year-old also admits that he is very busy n the cockpit of his Formula E car, as well as juggling his braking points on top his workload in the car.

“You are very busy in the car. For me, it is the busiest I have ever been in a car. I find myself talking to my engineers two to three times a lap. There is always a conversation going on in terms of how much we can push, what is the battery life, what the others are doing and pit stop strategy. So we are very busy in the car.”

“At the same time, you are trying to hit your braking points and fight the other cars. That’s why it is so easy for the car to go wrong or for you to go wrong by hitting the wall. That’s probably why you see drivers hitting the wall when normally these drivers would not touch the walls in a street circuit.” said the Amlin Aguri driver.

Venturi Formula E driver Stephane Sarrazin also admits that a Formula E car is one of the hardest cars he has ever driven. The 39-year old who also races in the World Endurance Championship with Toyota believes that the cars weight is a factor for why the car is harder to drive.

“A Formula E car is a very difficult car to drive because it is quite a heavy car and it becomes harder on street circuits which are very bumpy. It is also easy to make a mistake in these cars.”

“For me in a normal racing car I don’t really have any crashes, but in Formula E I’ve had more crashes than I’ve had in the last ten years of my career. Everybody seems to have had a crash and it is very narrow and the car is not very stable so it’s difficult, but it’s part of the game,” said Sarrazin.