Salvador Duran is refusing to dwell on his short-lived stint with Trulli in Formula E as he prepares to return to the track this weekend with Team Aguri.

Duran raced for Aguri for most of the first season after replacing Katherine Legge in Punta del Este but he moved to Trulli in the summer break. It was a woeful decision, with a mere handful of laps completed during collective preseason testing at Donington Park after powertrain teething trobule. Worse was to come, when the team couldn’t even field their race cars at all when the season got started, culminating in Duran quitting, followed shortly by the team itself.

“I’m over it,” Duran told Current E today in Buenos Aires, where he was preparing in the Aguri garage alongside season one team mate Antonio Felix da Costa. It’s his first race weekend in the 2015-16 season with his old team. He’s filling the place of Nathanael Berthon, who was shown the door after just three races. “We have new things to do with Aguri, new expectations, and the rest of the season. I’m very excited about the comeback. I’m really willing to get back in the car and see what we’re able to do and get back into the rhythm, obviously up to speed.”

On the Trulli adventure, Duran is upbeat: “It was a great project. I think there were very good people working there, but in the end, it was just not possible to put it on track.”

Team Aguri was the only team to have made the choice early to stick with the first season powertrain. While that means the team is unlikely to challenge for victories, particularly as manufacturers begin to get the best from their new technology with each additional race weekend of experience, Duran is optimistic about the remainder of season two.

“We have to get a win sooner or later, so we just have to just keep working and pushing and getting the best out of what we can get,” he said. “We’re looking to be competitive and get an opportunity because other cars have problems. We have to get an opportunity because we were quick and we have a good strategy.”

Duran’s return did not get off to the best of starts today, however, as his car came to a halt just three minutes into shakedown.

Luke Smith