Sebastien Buemi says that his crash while leading the FIA Formuꦛla E Santiago E-Prix felt similar to issue that led to his accident in free practice. 

The Nissan e.dams driv😼er led much of the race after starting from pole position following the exclusion of Audi’s Lucas d🦂i Grassi from qualifying in Chile. 

But en💙tering the closing stages and under significant pressure from the chasing Sam Bird, Buemi locked up and hit the wall at the fast right hander at Turn 7 - where he also crashed during practice ﷺ- forcing him into retirement. 

“I still need to understand but ba🎶sically I had a similar probl♉em to what we had in FP1,” Buemi explained. 

“Clearly it looks like 🅰something was wrong with the brakes and that pushed me off. Once I was on the little stones I couldn’t really brake.” 

Despite losing the opportunity to end his victory drought - with his last win coming at the Berlin E-Prix in 2017 - the season two champion said he was encouraged by the positive gains made by Nissan since the start of 2018/19. 

“I try to take the positives because clearly when you have pole position and you are leading most of the ra♋ce, we were quick,” Buemi added. 

“We had a massive improvement compared to the first r♌ace in Riy♚ad where we were very slow. 

𒐪“Now we wer🐽e one of the quickest in the race so I will take the positives from that and come back stronger in Mexico.”