The Briton entered the Berlin double-header second within the standings however had not completed within the factors since January following plenty of incidents.
Dennis was working in direction of the entrance in Saturday’s race on the Tempelhof Airport Road Circuit when he misplaced management heading into Flip 6 and picked up Antonio Felix Da Costa, later blaming a braking concern.
The much-needed consequence lastly got here in Sunday’s encounter as Dennis stayed out of hassle and moved into second behind eventual winner Nick Cassidy, shadowing the Envision Racing driver over the remaining 16 laps.
“Finally I’m simply comfortable to see the chequered flag, I haven’t seen one since January. It was a little bit of a reduction to be trustworthy,” stated Dennis.
“It was a deep darkish place yesterday after the crash with Antonio, I might see the staff fairly down, it wasn’t a fantastic place, so I wanted this for my staff.
“We wanted it for the championship, not just for myself however the Groups’ championship and it was nice to see everybody so comfortable, it felt like a win for us to be trustworthy after all of the unhealthy luck we’ve had.”
Jake Dennis, Andretti Autosport, 2nd place, on the rostrum
Picture by: Alastair Staley / Motorsport Images
Dennis admitted that though he was capable of save power within the slipstream of Cassidy, the transfer for the win was by no means absolutely on with earlier incidents additionally on his thoughts.
“I feel truthfully, Nick made everybody’s lives quite a bit simpler when he hit the entrance,” he added.
“The tempo was first rate sufficient to not trigger this huge impact of fast-slow for the blokes behind.
“I don’t assume any of us actually had the effectivity to do what he did, that’s why we didn’t go him after which with eight laps to go the [energy] targets have been simply too excessive, the elevate factors have been simply too small to go for the transfer.
“It was simply too excessive danger, particularly in my state of affairs the place we’ve had 4, 5 DNFs in a row.”
Cassidy’s first win of the season strikes him to inside 4 factors of championship chief Pascal Wehrlein, after the Porsche driver was solely capable of end seventh.
The Kiwi admitted that he didn’t plan to steer for such a protracted time period however was left with no different choice.
“For a very long time, I believed I used to be within the lead a bit too early, I used to be planning to drop again, we have been having conversations [on the radio] however fortunately it labored out,” stated Cassidy.