took an excellent victory within the Sunday’s race of the Berlin E-Prix double-header weekend. F1Technical’s senior author studies on the second Tempelhof race from the paddock.
The second race of this weekend’s Berlin double-header was two laps shorter, and drivers had two minutes fewer of assault mode. It all meant that drivers had been anticipated to have the ability to push more durable in as we speak’s 38-lap race.
Ahead of the race, the race management additionally confirmed a 40-place grid penalty for ERT driver Daniel Ticktum after his crew modified the gearbox and MCU in his automotive. As he was unable to serve the penalty, he was additionally handed a ten-second stop-and-go penalty.
Having taken pole place within the morning, Jake Dennis had getaway, however Nick Cassidy managed to sneak by because the pair strategy Turn 1. The Kiwi was desperate to take his first assault mode which meant that he dropped right down to P3.
With drivers adamant to get via their assault modes, Dennis and Pascal Wehrlein additionally took their further 50kW of energy. As quickly as he ran out of his first assault mode, the German elected to undergo the assault zone for second time.
In the meantime, Antonio Felix da Costa took the lead, however he shortly misplaced it as he went for an assault mode.
Despite some spectacular tempo within the early a part of the race, Maserati’s Maximilian Guenther endured catastrophe once more as misplaced his entrance wing resulting from a contact with an Andretti automotive. He stopped on observe, and security automotive was deployed. However, Guenther managed to get again going once more, however the harm meant that he was pressured to pit and retire from the race for the second successive time.
Until the security automotive interruption, Nissan driver Oliver Rowland was in a position to climb up the order by eleven positions, mirroring his yesterday’s race.
There was one other security automotive interruption as Sacha Fenestraz and Norman Nato got here to blows. The Andretti driver was desperate to overtake the Nissan racer, however he crashed into the automotive of Fenestraz, who went into the partitions.
Because of the stricken Nissan, the security automotive was deployed for the second time.
The race went inexperienced as soon as once more on Lap 29, with da Costa heading Rowland, Cassidy, Evans, Dennis, Wehrlein, Vergne, Hughes, Daruvala and Barnard.
Dennis and Wehrlein had been concerned in an extended battle which noticed the Andretti drive nudge the again of the Porsche. The incident brought about some harm to the entrance wing of Dennis, albeit he was in a position to proceed.
At the sharp finish of the sector, Evans held on to the lead, however da Costa sneaked by lastly. The Kiwi nonetheless wanted to undergo the assault zone, and he rejoined the motion in fourth place after taking his second and final further energy mode.
Using the additional 50kW of energy, Evans made it by his team-mate Cassidy.
In the meantime, FIA Formula E race director Scot Elkins confirmed that the race could be prolonged by three laps because of the security automotive interruptions.
As the race approached its ultimate levels, da Costa managed to drag away by some 1.3 seconds whereas the 2 Jaguars Evans and Cassidy had been combating onerous for P3. Yesterday’s race winner elected to overhaul Evans to attempt to chase down Rowland.
The Kiwi managed to shut in on the Nissan driver comparatively shortly, and glided by Rowland on the penultimate lap. Despite his spectacular tempo within the dying levels of the race, Cassidy was unable to catch race chief da Costa, who was given some respiration house because of the duels behind.
The Portuguese driver stored his composure and scored the win from tenth place on the grid. Cassidy crossed the end line second with Rowland finishing the rostrum within the second Berlin race.
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His win in race one and second-place in race two meant that Cassidy left Berlin with a monster 45-point haul and the standings lead – 140 factors to Wehrlein’s 124. Rowland sits third on 118.
In the Teams’ Championship, Jaguar TCS Racing sit on high on 237 factors with TAG Heuer Porsche second on 183.
