The Dutchman will race in the all-electric championship for the first time since 2022 after his brief tenure in Formula 1 last season with AlphaTauri.
The 2020-21 Formula E champion makes his debut with Mahindra in the Mexico City E-Prix on Saturday but enters the event after a less than ideal pre-season.
Mahindra was restricted to only using one car in Valencia last October after a battery fire in the garage next door put de Vries’ car out of commission once testing resumed.
The team was given allowance to conduct a private test because of the lost track time, which it conducted at Monteblanco in Spain at the start of December.
Both de Vries and team-mate Edoardo Mortara got behind the wheel across two days but the test was hampered by wet weather and cold conditions.
Despite losing vital and relevant track time compared with their rivals, de Vries believes the team must make the most of the less-than-ideal situation on the eve of the new season.
“I think this is kind of heading into a direction of having, not necessarily an excuse, [but] for me it’s all irrelevant,” de Vries told Autosport.
Source: Autosport