Envision experienced a rollercoaster of emotions last weekend when Formula E landed in New York for the antepenultimate round of the season. In the first race, Nick Cassidy took the team's first win of the year after a widespread crash in the rain ended the race for safety reasons. The following day, the New Zealander took his second consecutive pole position, but was forced to start from the back of the grid after being punished 30 places.

The reason is very simple: Envision changed Cassidy's battery and radiator overnight, as they practically had to build a new car after the crashes in race 1. The point is that the parts broke not when Nick hit the wall, but when he was hit by Lucas Di Grassi and Stoffel Vandoorne. Thus, his team does not believe that the punishment was fair.

"I'm very proud of the team for building a new car for Nick Cassidy throughout the night and for being so competitive again," said Envision boss Sylvain Filippi. "Nick secured another pole-position, and I am very frustrated by the punishment he received for changing battery and radiator," he lamented.

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Carro de Cassidy estatelado no muro, com Vandoorne e Di Grassi próximos e Da Costa tentando ajudar (Foto: Hugo Morales) — Cassidy's car crashed into the wall, with Vandoorne and Di Grassi close by and Da Costa trying to help (Photo: Hugo Morales)

"Those parts were damaged by other cars hitting his, when Nick was already off the track because of the torrential rain that caught the leaders by surprise," Filippi explained. "I don't think it's right for you to be penalized when you are not responsible for the situation. I feel sorry for Nick, who once again showed incredible pace, but his race was stolen from him," he criticized.

In the same line of what the boss said, Cassidy was very sorry to have been punished for crashes that he could no longer avoid, since his car was destroyed on the tire barrier. In addition, the New Zealander also highlighted the fact that Vandoorne - one of the cars that hit him in the accident - was on the podium in the second race, while Nick had to fight his way to the back of the grid and also serve a drive-through - for being punished by 30 positions in a grid that only has 22 cars.

"What I have a hard time digesting is that I took a penalty for something that was caused by two other cars hitting me," Cassidy complained in an interview with The Race website. "Those cars finished on the podium [in race 2]. That's the hardest thing to accept, because it wasn't my fault. They hit me on the battery side and the rear of the car. I don't know if the FIA saw it or not. I don't want to say too much, it's done, I can't change it," Robin Frijns' teammate criticized heavily.

Momento em que Cassidy vai no muro e ainda é acertado por Vandoorne e Di Grassi (Vídeo: Michael Sheetz) — The moment Cassidy goes into the wall and is still hit by Vandoorne and Di Grassi (Video: Michael Sheetz)

"At Diriyah, I changed the battery, had to start from the back of the grid, and it was completely my fault - I crashed myself," he explained. "But yesterday, it's questionable whether it was even my fault. Also, two other cars hit me and caused the punishment, so that hurts even more. So that's hard for me to accept," he stressed.

Cassidy revealed that, surprisingly, the car that Envision built for the second race looked faster than the first. So the New Zealander secured another pole position for the next day, but saw it all go down the drain when he learned - in an embarrassing live interview - that he would have to start from the back of the grid and still have a drive-through during the race.

"We had a completely new car: different chassis, different rear end, different gearbox, and it wasn't the same," he revealed. "On the second lap of free practice I thought, 'wow, this is better'. I felt that I could be first if I wanted to. The car was different and had a different setup, we wanted to use the race also to get a sense of the balance because it was a new car for us, and it was super fast," he pointed out.

"That makes me even more frustrated. Before the race on Saturday, I didn't think I had the pace to fight with them," he stated. "I thought, 'maybe I'll get a podium, I'm starting on pole,' and today [Sunday] I feel like we were on another level. It's good, but also annoying," he acknowledged.