DS🔯 Virgin’s Alex Lynn says he is banking on a bold strategy to enhance his chances at th🎃is weekend’s Formula E race in Mexico City.

Lynn’s frustrating start to his first ful🔯l Formula E Championship campaign is set to continue in Mexico, with the Briton facing a 10-place grid penalty after his team was forced to change the gearbox on one of ꦜhis DS Virgin DSV-03 cars following the last round in Chile.

He was forced ♓to retire with a gearbox failure while running in sixth place in Santiago, an issue which ended his record of successive points finishes from each of the opening three races o💟f the 2017/2018 season.

Teammat🥀e Sam Bird suffered a similar gearbox issue in Hong Kong and Marrakesh but his problem was not terminal. Bird, who wo👍n the opening race in Hong Kong, has enjoyed a solid run of points finishes to sit third in the drivers’ standings, while Lynn is a low-key 14th.

“It’s not ideal from our side,” Lynn said. “The plan has to be to do something different. We have to be bold with our choices on🅠 strategy, and hopefully that will pay off.

“It has been frustrating this season so far, because I’ve been quick but the results haven’t gone my way. We just need to start getting our reliabilityꦚ better, and ban🐼king the points we deserve.”

But Lynn is confident his fortunes will turn around sooner rather than later and believeඣs his Virgin squad’s package should be competitive around the tight and twisty Autodromo He𝄹rmanos Rodriquez circuit. 

“We should be quick there. Last year [Jose Maria] Lopez was in the lead with a few laps to go, and my team-m꧒ate Sam Bird finished third. So the pace is there, and we should have a good chance of being competitive. Now it’s time to start putting some serious points on the board.”