The Andretti Autosport driver sits second within the standings – 24 factors behind championship chief Pascal Wehrlein – however has not completed within the factors since January when he took two second-place finishes in Diriyah.
The Brit failed to attain in each Hyderabad and Sao Paulo following collisions, branding Dan Ticktum “a plonker” for the contact in the latter, whereas serving a penalty for a tyre stress violation in Cape City left him down the order.
Forward of the Berlin E-Prix double-header this weekend on the Tempelhof Avenue Circuit, Dennis is beneath no illusions in regards to the minimal aim that he wants to attain to maintain his title problem alive.
“Rating factors. I believe that’s most likely the most important purpose for us proper now: to attempt to get again on the scoring board,” stated Dennis, who took victory within the opening spherical of the season in Mexico Metropolis.
“We had a very constant operating block from the tip of Gen2 to then the beginning of Gen 3 of simply constantly [being] within the factors and that’s what we have to attempt to get again into now.”
Regardless of a clear sweep of the rostrum for Jaguar-powered automobiles in Sao Paulo, Dennis is assured that the Porsche powertrain stays the pacesetter within the championship.
Nonetheless, he concedes the German producer’s rivals have caught up within the new-for-2023 Gen3 period.
Jake Dennis, Andretti Autosport, Porsche 99 X Electrical Gen3
Photograph by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Images
“I believe the efficiency continues to be there,” he stated. “Clearly everybody has closed up so the deficit is far, a lot much less now.”
“We’re nonetheless missing a little bit of qualifying efficiency. There’s no two methods about that and we have to attempt to shut the hole with that side, however I believe the race automobile we have now continues to be probably the greatest.”
Crew principal Roger Griffiths believes there’s no motive Dennis and Andretti can’t problem for the title, and agrees that higher efficiency in qualifying is required to assist their possibilities.
“He [Dennis] hasn’t scored some extent because the finish of January. We’re now in the course of April so it’s been a very long time since we scored some factors,” he stated.
“If we will get him again firing on all cylinders, keep away from the ‘carbon zones’ – that is how we confer with qualifying in the course of the pack – and begin a bit additional ahead, then I believe the chance to get again on monitor with this championship is there available.”