Mahindra Racing was in sustained decline when Frederic Bertrand took over the reins of the Formula E team on the eve of the Gen3 era in November 2022. In the three previous seasons, Mahindra had finished ninth, ninth and eighth respectively in the teams’ standings, with two podiums and a victory offering brief respite from an otherwise bleak trajectory.
Worse still, Mahindra was on the back foot with the development of its Gen3 contender, and Bertrand was forced into a series of structural changes to put the house back in order.
