Venturi Formula E driver Edoardo Morꦐtara described his heavy crash in practice for the second night race at the Diriyah E-Prix as the “scariest moment ever”.

The Swiss driver suffered a huge accident after completing a practice start at the end oꦑf free practice on Saturday, with his Venturi spearing straight on into the Turn🌄 18 TecPro barriers at high speed after failing to stop.

Following an FIA investigation into the cause of the accident - which r🐠esulted in all four Mercedes-powered cars withdrawn from qualifying - it was determined that a rear-braking failsafe system failure had caused Mortara to crash.

Mortara was taken to hospital for precautionary tests but was declared fit to race, however, his Venturi team has been una🌳ble to fix his car in time to contest the race.

In a tweet from Venturi’s account, Mortara sa♔id: “Just a quick message to tell everyone that I’m safe and fine. I had the scariest moment ever, I’m grateful and thankful for all the support I received.”

Speaking on the grid after returning to the Formula E paddock in Saudi Arabia, Mortara described the scary-looking accident and revealedꦗ he has some “big pain” but is otherwise fine.

"I feel quite OK,” he ad🎀ded. “But I would lie if I tell you I am perfectly fine. I have some big pain from tಞhe crash this morning. It was not a great feeling.

“I feel like a passenger there. There was nothing I could do - just went i꧂nto the wall.

“I thought pretty much th🎉at was the end. It was a feeling I would like to forget.”