Stoffel Vandoorne went from 20th at the start to eighth at the finish of the Marrakesh FormulaE race, but the Mercedes driver was in 'two moods' over his recovery drive.
After struggling with a plethora of braking issues in qualifying, Vandoorne ended up logging the slowest time in Group A.had his laptimes deleted, after failing to set a time in the first six minutes of the group session.switched the brake material on Vandoorne's car - and the Belgian managed to carve his way through the pack to pick up eighth place in Saturday's race.
"We struggled through the practice sessions already, although the pace in practice was actually quite promising. We had the car to probably qualify in the top five. "It's a good recovery. As a team we did everything right and we had good pace in the race. So I think we couldn't really have done much more from 20th."Vandoorne explained his qualifying braking issues, and recalled that his car was locking up with half of the usual brake pressure applied.
"We're not the only ones that suffer with this sometimes, it's quite common across the grid that people get bad sets and struggle with it.
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