The Jaguar TCS Racing Formula E squad has confirmed that Nick Cassidy will be leaving the team after this weekend’s London EPrix finale races.
The decision has been communicated as being ‘reached through mutual agreement between Nick and the team’.
Cassidy signed a deal to race for the factory Jaguar team in June 2023 after impressing with the customer Jaguar team, Envision Racing. The Kiwi hit the ground running with a debut podium in Mexico City before claiming a win in his second ever event at Diriyah in January 2024.
Those wins were followed by further victory in Berlin as Cassidy amassed 176 points and challenged for the title in the final races at London ExCeL. That though was where he felt he was compromised by his team’s race strategy which dropped in to the pack briefly and resulted in him being drop-kicked out of a probable title winning position by Antonio Felix da Costa’s Porsche.
His points tally did though contribute to Jaguar TCS Racing winning the 2024 ABB FIA Formula E Teams’ World Championship, Jaguar’s first World Championship as a manufacturer since Teo Fabi became World Sportscar champion in 1991.
Two wins followed this season – at Shanghai and Berlin – with a further seven podiums, seven fastest laps and a pole position in what is being regarded as Cassidy’s best season to date despite a difficult first six races in which he was only able to score 10 points.
“The decision to leave Jaguar TCS Racing has not been easy one, but ultimately it is the right one for me personally,” said Cassidy.
I’d like to thank everyone at the team for their support since I joined at the beginning of Season 10. We have fought hard and had some great success together. I particularly want to thank the engineers and mechanics on the #37 side of the garage – we’ve made some amazing memories! Looking ahead to London this weekend, we’ll work as hard as ever as a team to ensure we’re competitive and fighting for another top three finish in the Drivers’ World Championship.”
James Barclay, Jaguar TCS Racing Team Principal added that Cassidy “has impressed everyone in the team with his unwavering dedication to win and I’m proud of the role he’s played in our team success.
“On behalf of the whole team, I’d like to thank Nick and wish him all the best for a successful future – starting of course with the final race weekend of the 2024/2025 Season in London, where together we’ll still be fighting as hard as ever for points, podiums and wins.”
5 Memorable Cassidy/Jags Moments
Diriyah, 2024
Cassidy drove a clinical race at Formula E’s best track that season to manage a considerable threat from Robin Frijns and claim his first win for Jaguar.
It set in stone a trait for his time at Jaguar, that he needed minimal time to settle in and that he could influence races quickly, including making the right calls in conjunction with his then new engineer Phil Ingram.
Monaco, 2024
Cassidy played a key part in gaining Jaguar’s first win in the principality after assisting friend and teammate Mitch Evans to execute a classy 1-2 and build a strong foundation for the Big Cat’s teams and manufacturers title which they achieved in London three months later.
London, 2024
Perhaps the best Cassidy performance of his time at Jaguar.
A technical issue in the crucial Sunday morning practice session saw him cut a frustrated figure in the pit box as the action continued without him.
That should have meant a lost cause in qualifying but he pulled out several astounding laps to take his first pole position for Jaguar and thrust himself right back in to title contention.
London might be the bête noir from a one-hand on the trophy points of view in both 2023 and 224 but Cassidy’s qualifying efforts that day are possibly the best ever seen in Formula E.
Tokyo, 2025
Nick Cassidy went from being in “Monsters Inc…fighting a monster” in practice on Saturday to climbing from 13th to third on Sunday, in one of his gutsiest drives in Formula E.
A desperate Saturday was quickly followed by a brilliant Sunday for the Kiwi, who drove one of his best ever Formula E races to step onto a podium which seemed just a distant dream just hours before.
That drive featured an aggressive strategy (an early attack mode strike-off), all about gaining track position and this was evidenced by a tasty and perhaps marginal exchange with Dan Ticktum at Mirabeau.
“I really made sure that I gave him a car’s width on the inside but he’s tried to out-brake me and I’ve had much better traction because I was on four-wheel drive,” said Cassidy.
“I braked as late as I could and I’ve got a really good car on systems on the brakes. I think he just applied maybe that bit too much brake pressure, locked the front and he was gone.
“I was quite proud of myself that I could trick him into that and then get the place so that was I think a good turning point.”
Cassidy’s progress was evident early doors with first lap moves and, then as the conditions dried, he was able to knuckle down and make further bold moves after leaving his second attack mode slightly later than those around him. As a consequence, he could pick off Maximilian Guenther, Vergne and De Vries clinically.
The Gen3 Evo Jaguar was then a temperamental beast with a short fuse and narrow performance window and it would be unlikely to allow its drivers any sniff of a late title charge or indeed anything approaching it.
It meant that Cassidy’s faced “probably the most frustrating period of my life” because he knows that somewhere within his car there is performance. But more positively, and in the context of a long lean spell away from the podium (since Shanghai last June), he is “really seeing the fruits of work and it feels like a huge monkey off my shoulders”.
Berlin, 2025
Cassidy’s most recent triumph was among his best also. A superbly judged masterclass of a strategically complex race that saw a wrong call or two in qualifying transfer in to a mighty race drive from 20th to victory in a typically on-point execution.
His pulled-pin style sweep past rivals at just the right time and his attack mode delivery were perfect as he went from insignificant backmarker to man in control over the mid and late phase of the race.
His performance the day before when he capitalised on a safety car to banish the 10-second stop/go penalty to take a brilliant fifth was also very top drawer.
‘Come on Eileen’ indeed!
