S8_Diriyah, Friday, twenty eighth January 2022 – LAT
On the opening races, the Mercedes-EQ System E Group noticed a 1-2 win on the Diriyah E-Prix, a promising begin to Season 8 of the ABB FIA System E World Championship.
- Forward of the race, the Mercedes-EQ System E Group was in Riyadh sharing information and supporting the event of NEOM’s future leaders as a part of the NEOM GrOW program.
The Mercedes-EQ System E Group, proudly supported by Principal Associate NEOM, celebrated a profitable weekend on the Diriyah E-Prix within the opening rounds of the brand new ABB FIA System E World Championship season in Saudi Arabia.
The crew secured an unimaginable one-two win in Spherical 1, with driver Nyck De Vries claiming his second-ever victory for the Mercedes-EQ System E Group in Diriyah, adopted intently by teammate Stoffel Vandoorne as runner up. Each vehicles completed within the factors in Spherical 2, as Stoffel Vandoorne claimed P7 after beginning twelfth on the grid, and Nyck De Vries dropped all the way down to P10 from pole place following contact with Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah). The Mercedes-EQ System E Group depart Diriyah with a complete of 57 factors after the doubleheader, at present sitting within the second place within the ABB FIA System E World Championship standings forward of Spherical 3 in Mexico in two weeks’ time.
NEOM’s partnership with the Mercedes-EQ System E Group is constructed on a shared pioneering spirit. As champions of sustainability, each organizations are dedicated to being on the forefront of innovation, harnessing advances in expertise and engineering to steer the drive for a greener future. By the help of the Mercedes-EQ System E Group, NEOM goals to speed up its daring ambitions for a brand new way of life. The partnership is selling information switch between like-minded organizations, driving alternatives for NEOM’s future leaders to be taught from a crew performing on the highest degree of racing on the earth’s first net-carbon-zero sport.
Forward of the Diriyah E-Prix, key personnel from the Mercedes-EQ System E Group attended a workshop for the NEOM GrOW (Graduate Alternatives in Work) program in Riyadh. The GrOW program is an initiative designed to supply Saudi graduates the chance to work alongside a few of the world’s brightest minds at NEOM and play a component in shaping the way forward for the Kingdom.
S8_Diriyah, Saturday, twenty ninth January 2022 – LAT
Neal Coupland, Head of Sports activities Partnerships at NEOM, stated: “It’s superb to welcome the Mercedes-EQ System E Group again to the Kingdom, and we’re very grateful that a few of the crew joined us for the NEOM GrOW workshop to share their experiences of working in a high-performing group. Our partnership with the Mercedes-EQ System E Group supplies nice alternatives for information switch, and the NEOM GrOW workshop is an ideal instance of this. Our GrOW staff will be taught quite a bit from the experiences and insights shared by the Mercedes-EQ System E Group, they usually can take these learnings again to their respective sectors at NEOM.”
Ian James, Mercedes-EQ System E Group Principal, stated: “Wanting again at our time in Diriyah, it’s good to go residence after the primary two rounds of the season with a wholesome assortment of factors. We’re additionally glad to have had a chance to share our experiences and information with our companions at NEOM forward of the beginning of the brand new System E season. Working with younger expertise is all the time inspiring and it has been nice to satisfy the cohort being developed on the NEOM GrOW Program. Plenty of the talents we require to be a profitable crew in our subject are transferable to different sectors, and it’s a pleasure to have the ability to share a few of these learnings with our companions at NEOM.”
The workshop featured a panel dialogue with Mercedes-EQ System E Group Principal Ian James, Group Driver Stoffel Vandoorne, and the crew’s Head of Human Assets alongside NEOM’s Govt Director of Human Assets, Amin Bukhari. The session introduced collectively representatives from each side of the partnership to share experiences of working inside a high-performance surroundings and insights to help and encourage the cohort, supporting the event of NEOM’s future leaders.
The Mercedes-EQ System E Group’s involvement within the GrOW workshop is only one realization of shared aspirations to advertise information switch inside the partnership. In August 2021, two top-performing staff from the 2020 NEOM GrOW consumption launched into a placement with the Mercedes-EQ System E Group. Ahmed Al-Hussain and Duaa Alzaher are actually six months into the secondment, working inside their chosen fields of Mechanical Engineering and IT respectively. Constructing on the expertise they gained by the GrOW program, the pair are spending 12 months totally immersed inside the racing crew, studying from the high-performance group to be able to drive future success for NEOM.
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