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Barnard 'on the edge' but I would have done the same - Hughes
Jake Hughes says he would have done the same as Taylor Barnard as the pair fought hard over second place in the closing stages of the second race of the Jeddah E-Prix.
Hughes was forced off track on the penultimate lap as Barnard closed the door on him in the first turn, but despite branding the move as “on the edge” immediately after getting out the car, the Maserati MSG driver wasn’t too disappointed to miss out on an additional position.
“Look, it's on the edge,” he reiterated afterwards. “Fair play to Taylor. He did everything he needed to do. You get out the car and you think it's a little bit on edge, but I'd probably do the same, to be honest. But in the end, I’ll take a podium.”
The podium was Hughes’ third in Formula E following his second place in the second race of the Shanghai E-Prix last season, but his first for Maserati since moving to the team in the off-season, and came after he finished fifth on Friday.
“I’m really happy to get my first podium today,” he said. “I think we managed a really good race. We basically executed the race we wanted to beforehand. Oli (Rowland, race winner) today was just a bit too good, and I think we were good to be fighting with Taylor and McLaren.”
The result also helped move Stellantis – whose powertrains are in the Maseratis as well as the DS Penskes, which won Friday’s race courtesy of Maximilian Guenther – to second in the manufacturers’ championship, and Hughes feels that they’re in a good position to challenge leaders Nissan.
“Apart from Max today, we've basically had all four Stellantis cars in the points in the last few races," he said. "So along with the Nissan boys, I think we're looking good, probably more so than probably expected, I think it's fair to say.
“To get these points on the board now, hopefully we can have strong rest of the season as well.”
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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