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Envision Racing has been competing in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship since the inaugural 2014/15 season and is one of two British teams - alongside Jaguar TCS Racing - in the series. The team has come close to clinching the title on more than one occasion but is still yet to take top spot.

Finishing its first season fifth overall in the standings, the team went on wind up third in the 2015/16 season before working its way to fourth in 2016/17. Two more third place finishes followed in both the 2017/18 and 2018/19 campaigns and in 2019/20, the team was there-or-thereabouts again with another fourth-placed finish in the Teams' running.

For three seasons, the team used a powertrain supplied by French car manufacturer DS Automobiles, with which it challenged for both the Teams' and, in the case of Sam Bird, the Drivers' Championship titles in the fourth season. After the partnership between the manufacturer and Virgin came to an end, the team switched to a powertrain supplied by former champions Audi Sport, in the form of its Gen2 Audi e-tron FE05. For its latest campaign, the Envision squad keeps its Audi underpinnings as it once again goes up against the might of the manufacturers to challenge for the title.

A stalwart of the team since Season 1, Sam Bird moves to pastures new for Season 7, having competed every single Formula E race with the British outfit. The team moved quickly to pin Nick Cassidy down as his replacement, with the 25-year-old entering the fray off the back of securing the Japanese 'Triple Crown' of Super GT, Formula 3 and Super Formula titles.

Envision Virgin Racing made use of Audi's all-new powertrain, designed and built in-house for its final Formula E campaign, to draw level with the manufacturer in the standings. Robin Frijns was a season-long pacesetter after podiums in Diriyah and Monaco but the Dutchman slipped to fourth in the Drivers' running at the last. Rookie Nick Cassidy consistently impressed and a storming second half of his season yielded two trips to the rostrum of his own, in Puebla and New York City.

The team rounded out the Gen2 era in the same spot as it had a season prior, with fifth in the table, but a larger share of the points – with 194 to its name, four better than its previous high in Season 3. Frijns failed to win this time around and leaves for pastures new after a four-year spell with the team but Nick Cassidy – impressive in his debut campaign – took to the top step for the very first time in New York City, following up with a podium in London. Frijns’ four podiums proved a strong haul, and the team will be looking to fill that hole and more with the signing of a Formula E champion in Sebastien Buemi to its ranks for Season 9.

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SébastienBuemi

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Date of Birth31 October 1988
BirthplaceAigle, Vaud
2015/16 Drivers' champion Sebastien Buemi heads to pastures new after leaving the e.dams stable for Envision Racing at the start of the Gen3 era. The Swiss is one of the most successful drivers in ABB FIA Formula E World Championship history, and he’ll be on the hunt for a return to title-winning form in Season 9.

Alongside rival Lucas di Grassi, Sebastien Buemi is one of the most successful drivers in Formula E. As one of the series' four champions, the Swiss driver not only has the most wins to his name but an outstanding number of Julius Baer Pole Positions to match.

Starting off with a successful karting campaign in the early stages of his motorsport career, Buemi moved to the German Formula BMW Championship in 2004, finishing third in his debut season - just behind another future Formula 1 driver, Sebastian Vettel. As the points kept on coming for Buemi, so did the opportunities to work his way up the open-wheel classes.

Despite getting his first taste of Formula One machinery at the age of just 15 when he was given the chance to drive an Arrows F1 car, it wouldn't be until 2009 that Buemi would make his Formula One debut. Working his way up to that point with a season in the F3 Euro Series in 2006, he finished 12th overall, before making his debut in GP2 in 2007. By 2009, his break into Formula One arrived after he caught the eye of Toro Rosso, who signed him up later that year, making Buemi the first Swiss driver to race in Formula One since 1995.

He continued to drive for Toro Rosso until the end of the 2011 season when he partnered with Jean-Eric Vergne. Despite not making another competitive appearance for the team, Buemi remains connected to the Red Bull outfit as the reserve driver.

Alongside his Formula E duties, Buemi also competes in the World Endurance Championship with Toyota, winning the world championship in 2014 as well as a first place win in the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hour race.

After bringing home three teams' championship titles for his former team Renault e.dams, Buemi moved with the e.dams squad under the new name of Nissan e.dams for its debut season in Formula E alongside Oliver Rowland. Together, the pair took the team to fourth in the teams' standings, just missing out on a podium position, while Buemi finished second behind Jean-Eric Vergne in the drivers' championship.

Embarking on his sixth season in Formula E, Buemi once again partnered with Rowland. After playing catch-up with development in the opening rounds, Buemi launched his points-scoring campaign with a third-place finish in Mexico City. Alongside Rowland's performance, the Swiss driver's three podium finishes in the six-race season finale in Berlin helped secure Nissan e.dams second place in the Teams' Championship.

A best of fifth in Rome was all Sebastien Buemi had to show for his lowest points-score in Formula E to-date in a disappointing Season 7. He fared better in Season 8, with the field ever more compressed, the Swiss strode to 15th in the running and a 30-point haul. No silverware, but improvement as he heads for a new start in Season 9 with Envision Racing.
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RobinFrijns

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Date of Birth7 August 1991
BirthplaceMaastricht
Robin Frijns had four fruitful seasons with Envision Racing, collecting 13 podium trophies including two for his efforts. For Season 10, the Dutchman is back with the British outfit to defend their Teams' title from Season 9.

Frijns wasn’t born into racing. In-fact, it was a family friend who gave the Dutchman his first experience in a kart. After travelling to a few races and experiencing the smells and sounds of racing it became obvious to Frijns that he wanted to take racing up more competitively. He was given a quad bike to play with in the garden and was forever being told to get off it by his mother after ruining the garden, a young Frijns was getting the feel for driving.

He progressed through the single-seater ranks and won titles in a number of junior categories including Formula BMW Europe and Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup. He took the 2012 World Series by Renault 3.5 title at his first attempt, with the last driver to achieve such a feat being Robert Kubica in 2005.

The Dutch driver and GP2 race-winner has been recognised for his talent throughout his career testing for both Sauber and Red Bull Racing at the Formula 1 young driver test in Abu Dhabi.

In 2013, Frijns joined Sauber as its test driver, and took part in a partial season of GP2 picking up one victory and two podium finishes. Frijns later joined Caterham F1 as a test driver for 2014. Between then and now he has raced in Blancpain GT and, in 2018, the DTM series with Audi Sport.

After racing for Andretti in Formula E's 2015/16 and 2016/17 campaigns, Frijns made a comeback to the series with Envision Virgin Racing in 2018/19, taking the place of Alex Lynn.

Frijns rounded off an impressive campaign in fourth place in the standings, claiming his second win of Season 5 in New York finale, having taken to the top step in Paris in Round 8. For the 2019/20 season, Frijns once again piloted Envision Virgin Racing's Audi-powered Gen2 challenger alongside British driver Sam Bird and ended Season 7 on a high in Berlin with four Super Pole appearances and a pair of podiums on the way to 12th in the Drivers' table.

Frijns was a season-long pacesetter after podiums in Diriyah and Monaco but the Dutchman slipped to fifth in the Drivers' running at the last. Given how tight the competition was in 2020/21, though, that mean the wound up just 10 points shy of eventual winner Nyck de Vries (Mercedes-EQ).

For 2021/22 he returned with Envision Racing alongside Nick Cassidy, and once again proved to be a consistent performer, with podiums in Diriyah, Rome – a double – and New York City his highlights on the way to seventh in the Drivers’ table.