Robin Frijns ends his single-seater career, focuses entirely on BMW
Updated: 12:01, 21 Apr
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After a long career in single-seaters, Robin Frijns will no longer drive in those categories, he confirmed to GPblog. However, the former Formula E and ex-Formula 1 test driver (Sauber) is not thinking about quitting. Frijns wants to continue for years in endurance racing.
At the end of last season, his second stint with Envision Racing came to an end, after several seasons in which things often went against him. Looking back on this period, Frijns tells GPblog in an exclusive interview that the Formula E chapter, and with it his career in single-seaters, is closed.
“I had bad luck, yes. At a certain point it just wasn’t fun anymore. There’s bad luck, and then there’s bad luck. But especially in recent years, I was always the one to catch it,” he says, referring, among other things, to a broken wrist in the 2023 Mexico E-Prix.
IndyCar is not for Robin Frijns
Frijns hadn’t had a position in Formula 1 for some time. Without Formula E, he could have raced in, for example, IndyCar to stay active in single-seaters. “IndyCar has never appealed to me. I did test for it once years ago.
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“I would like to do street circuits in IndyCar. But I’m not going to drive on an oval. I know my driving style. I always leave a margin to come back. On an oval you only do that once. So I know it’s not for me,” says Frijns.
Robin Frijns’ BMW - Photo: GPblog
The Dutchman is at peace with the fact that his single-seater career is over. “Yes. I think so. I’m 34 now and I’m nowhere near planning to stop altogether,” he says, referring to his job as a BMW factory driver, including in the World Endurance Championship (WEC).
“The longer I can keep going, the better. But if I’m 45 and seven-tenths too slow, then I’ll stop immediately.”
Mixed results with BMW
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BMW is a relatively new team in the hypercar class of endurance racing. The road to the top is one of trial and error. “It’s a bit up and down. Sometimes we have a really good weekend and sometimes we also have a really tough weekend.
“Then it’s very difficult for us to understand: what’s causing it? Of course, it’s motorsport. It’s about analyzing well and seeing what the problem is. But it’s really not easy to understand what the car needs to be fast,” said Frijns.
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