.NickCassidy_ says 'there’s a big desire' to strengthen his relationship with Ferrari ahead of the Italian marque's Hypercar programme in the 2023 WEC season.
Finishing fifth in race one, Cassidy qualified third for race two and recovered from a first corner collision to challenge for a podium before becoming embroiled in contact as Mercedes drivers deployed team orders to help eventual champion Maximilian Gotz.in the WEC's GTE Am class alongside Thomas Flohr and Francesco Castellacci, although clashing Formula E commitments forced him to miss the Portimao DTM season-opener and will rule him out of next weekend's Norisring meeting too.
"But I was very fortunate that Ferrari had the opportunity with Thomas Flohr to join in WEC as well. I’m a racing driver, I want to be busy, I want to be driving all the time and it ended up being a mega programme [in 2022]. I was really lucky to have the support from them to accommodate me.
"My race stints there were quite strong, I was good in traffic and I find that the racing in SUPER GT is quite similar to WEC almost with the two categories and the high-downforce, high power."What I was missing was Le Mans experience and WEC experience. I was really keen this year to be inside the Ferrari family obviously and building that relationship, but getting the WEC experience was really key for me, that’s what I was missing in my career.
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