Lucas di Grassi believes it will be “very complicated” for the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team to fight back into contention for both Formula E titles in Season Four after his th𝕴ird straight race without points in Marrakesh on Saturday.

Defending Formula E champion ♏di Grassi lost the chance to fight for pole due to a power cut issue on his car in qualifying, leaving him fifth on the grid.

The Brazilian rose 🎃to fourth early on before slowing with a repeat of the power cut, forcing him to park up at the side of the track and reওtire from the race.

Reliability issues also hindered di Grassi in the opening two races of the year in Hong Kong, leaving him witho♑ut ꦍa single point in the championship and now 54 points behind early standings leader Felix Rosenqvist.

“It’s very frustrating to have sᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuch a fast car that we have this year, much better performance tha🔜n we had last year, but now completely unreliable,” di Grassi told wuqian0821.com.

“100 p🔥er cent reliability problems, that’s unbelievable. We have♉ to find out [the cause].

“If we want to win races and we want to climb the ladder of the champions🧜hip, we need to find the issue. I never had such a bad start to a championship in my li🉐fe.”

Di Grassi conceded his hopes of gaining points on his riv𒊎als were not helped by the ultra-competitive nature of Formula E in Season Four, with five or six teams looking capable of winning races.

“It’s much t🐠ougher now. We improved, but there are at least f🌟ive or six teams which are in a very good level,” di Grassi explained.

“Everyone can win a race from that group of five, six, even seve﷽n teams. Even teams who were underdogs like Venturi with [Edoardo] Mortara, they were supposed to win in Hong Kong. So everyone is able to w♛in a race.

“It will be very complicated for us to climb back, but at the same time, because everyone is competitive, if we win three races in🍒 a row, maybe we can get our hopes back.”

Reliability issues aside, di Grassi took heart from the performance Audi🦄 has shown when the car has run without problems.

“I have full trust in Audi to sort out the problems. Like they say, it’s easier to make a fast and reliable car reliable than a slow and reliable car fast,” di Grass♎i said.

“We have a fast car. We’re going to ma🏅ke sure we ✨fix it, and we’re going to go for it.

“Until we have no mathematical chance of winning the tꦏitle, we’re going to fight hard to make sure that we wജin it.”