Buenos Aires ePrix 2017

Buenos Aires ePrix 2017

Racing data
3rd of 12 races of the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17
Surname:	2017 FIA Formula E Buenos Aires ePrix
Date:	18th February 2017
Place:	Buenos Aires , Argentina
Course:	Formula E race track Buenos Aires
Length:	91.195 km in 37 laps of 2.48 km
Pole position
Driver:	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport
Time:	1: 09.404 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team
Time:	1: 09.467 min
Podium
First:	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams
Second:	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah
Third:	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport

The Buenos Aires ePrix 2017 (officially: 2017 FIA Formula E Buenos Aires ePrix ) took place on February 18 on the Buenos Aires Formula E race track in Buenos Aires and was the third race of the 2016/17 FIA Formula E Championship . It was the third Buenos Aires ePrix.

report

background

After the Marrakech ePrix , Sébastien Buemi led the drivers' standings with 22 points ahead of Lucas di Grassi and with 26 points ahead of Nicolas Prost . In the team standings, Renault e.dams had a 38 point lead over the tied teams ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and Mahindra Racing .

The number of laps increased from 35 to 37, increasing the race distance from 86.200 km to 91.195 km.

With Sam Bird and António Félix da Costa , two former winners competed in the race.

Daniel Abt , Buemi and di Grassi received a so-called FanBoost , they were allowed to increase the output of their second vehicle to up to 200 kW and thus use up to 100 kilojoules of additional energy. Buemi and di Grassi received the third FanBoost in the third race of the season and the tenth each in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, for Abt it was the second FanBoost in a row.

training

In the first free practice, José María López drove with a lap time of 1: 09.431 minutes ahead of Jean-Éric Vergne and Mitch Evans . Félix da Costa's training had to be interrupted after an accident. After Félix da Costa stopped on the track due to technical problems shortly before the end of the training session, the training session was canceled.

In the second free practice, Bird was fastest in 1: 08.792 minutes ahead of Felix Rosenqvist and di Grassi. The training was interrupted once because Loïc Duval lost a front wheel on his vehicle.

Qualifying

Qualifying started at 12:00 p.m. and took place in four groups of five drivers each, each group had six minutes in which the drivers had a maximum of one timed lap with an output of 170 kW and then a maximum of one timed lap with an output of 200 kW were allowed to drive. Maro Engel , López and Ma Qinghua lagged behind the 110 percent time and did not qualify for the ePrix. Vergne was fastest with a lap time of 1: 08.751 minutes.

The five fastest drivers then drove in the first five positions in the individual time trial called Superpole . Di Grassi secured pole position with a lap time of 1: 09.404 minutes and thus three points. The other positions were occupied by Vergne, Buemi, Oliver Turvey and Nelson Piquet jr. It was the first pole position for di Grassi.

Engel, López and Ma were allowed to start the race because they were sufficiently fast in the second free practice. They started at the end of the field; the order of their starting positions was determined by the lap times they had achieved in the second free practice session.

run

The race lasted 37 laps.

At the start, the positions at the top remained unchanged. Adam Carroll stopped at the start, his Jaguar had to be pushed off the track by Marshals . The race management therefore announced a Full Course Yellow . Di Grassi led before Vergne, Buemi, Turvey, Piquet, Rosenqvist, Prost, Jérôme D'Ambrosio , Bird and Evans. Carroll started the race when the front of the field hit the start-finish straight . Since he did not adhere to the speed limit of 50 km / h, he was given a drive-through penalty. The race was reopened on the second lap.

Bird attacked D'Ambrosio on the wing at turn five , but D'Ambrosio defended himself. When accelerating out of the curve, Bird touched the boundary with the left rear wheel, damaging the suspension and losing several positions, but initially drove on. Evans overtook D'Ambrosio at the beginning of the third lap, as the lap continued, Vergne passed di Grassi and took the lead. Buemi also passed di Grassi on the same lap.

Di Grassi couldn't keep up with Vergne and Buemi's pace. Prost overtook Rosenqvist and Piquet one after the other and was thus in fifth place. Buemi put Vergne under pressure and overtook him on the sixth lap, while Turvey passed di Grassi on the same lap. In the eighth lap, Bird was the first driver to change vehicles; his vehicle was no longer drivable after the suspension broke.

On the twelfth lap, Prost di Grassi overtook. One lap later, Engel slowed down and the race management showed him the fried egg flag . He also pitted to change vehicles.

On lap 19, Turvey, Evans and Loïc Duval were the first drivers to pits for a scheduled vehicle change, the minimum time for changing vehicles was 55 seconds. One lap later, with the exception of Rosenqvist, Nick Heidfeld and Carroll, who switched on lap 21, all the other drivers changed their vehicles. Di Grassi left his pit just before Piquet drove past it. The race stewards warned di Grassi about an unsafe release , but since the pit lane made a curve immediately in front of di Grassi's pit and di Grassi could not see Piquet, they refrained from a higher penalty against di Grassi. Rosenqvist had technical problems with the second car so that he lost a lap.

After the vehicle changes, Buemi led in front of Vergne, Prost, di Grassi, Piquet, Turvey, Evans, Duval, D'Ambrosio and Abt.

Di Grassi overtook Prost on lap 24 and was now in third place. Evans, who had less energy after his early car change, had to let Duval and D'Ambrosio pass, and he was also given a five-second time penalty for driving too fast on the Full Course Yellow . Bird drove the fastest lap of the race to date.

Heidfeld overtook López, Stéphane Sarrazin and Robin Frijns one after the other, but then received a drive-through penalty because he fell short of the minimum time for the pit stop by around 0.4 seconds. It fell back to 15th place. D'Ambrosio overtook Duval and was now in seventh place. López also passed Sarrazin and Frijns one after the other. Rosenqvist drove the fastest lap of the race at this point.

On lap 36, Abbot overtook Evans and then Turvey. Duval dueled D'Ambrosio for a whole lap and passed him again. This duel cost both Dragon drivers time, however, so that the Abt, who was previously more than three seconds behind the two, caught up on the last lap and overtook D'Ambrosio shortly before the finish. Bird tried one more time to achieve the fastest lap, braking himself in the process and slamming into the barrier.

Buemi won ahead of Vergne and di Grassi. It was the third victory in the third race for Buemi, who became the first driver in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship to win three races in a row. Vergne achieved the first and di Grassi the second podium finish of the season. The remaining points were placed by Prost, Piquet, Duval, Abt, D'Ambrosio, Turvey and López. The point for the fastest race lap went to Rosenqvist.

Buemi thus extended his lead in the overall standings over di Grassi and Prost. Renault.edams also increased its lead over ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and Mahindra Racing in the team standings.

Registration list

All teams and drivers used Michelin tires .

team	vehicle	No.	driver
Renault e.dams	Renault ZE16	08th	Nicolas Prost
		09	Sébastien Buemi
ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	ABT Schaeffler FE02	11	Lucas di Grassi
		66	Daniel Dept.
DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	Virgin DSV-02	02	Sam Bird
		37	José María López
Faraday Future Dragon Racing	Penske 701-EV	06th	Loïc Duval
		07th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio
Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	Mahindra M3ELECTRO	19th	Felix Rosenqvist
		23	Nick Heidfeld
Venturi Formula E team	Venturi VM200-FE-02	04th	Stéphane Sarrazin
		05	Maro Engel
Andretti Formula E.	Andretti ATEC-02	27	Robin Frijns
		28	António Félix da Costa
Techeetah	Renault ZE16	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne
		33	Ma Qinghua
NextEV NOK	NextEV 700R	03	Nelson Piquet Jr.
		88	Oliver Turvey
Panasonic Jaguar Racing	Jaguar I-Type 1	20th	Mitch Evans
		47	Adam Carroll

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	time	Super pole	begin
01	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 09.084	1: 09,404	01
02	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	1: 08.751	1: 09.598	02
03	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	1: 09.018	1: 09.825	03
04th	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	1: 09.314	1: 10.075	04th
05	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	1: 09.383	1: 11.274	05
06th	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	1: 09.442	-	06th
07th	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 09.505	-	07th
08th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 09.681	-	08th
09	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 09.697	-	09
10	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 09.839	-	10
11	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	1: 10.100	-	11
12	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 10.152	-	12
13	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	1: 10.172	-	13
14th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 10.257	-	14th
15th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 10.946	-	15th
16	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 13.284	-	16
17th	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	1: 13.326	-	17th
110 percent time : 1: 15.626 min (based on the best time of 1: 08.751 min)
18th	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 16.760	-	20th
19th	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	1: 22.405	-	19th
20th	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	1: 44.239	-	18th

Remarks

1. ↑ Although he did not qualify, López was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.
2. ↑ Although he did not qualify, Qinghua was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.
3. ↑ Even though he did not qualify, Engel was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	37	45: 45.623	03	1: 11.058 (33rd)
02	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	37	+ 2.996	02	1: 10.832 (27.)
03	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	37	+ 6.921	01	1: 10.744 (24.)
04th	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	37	+ 8.065	06th	1: 11,130 (22nd)
05	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	37	+ 9.770	05	1: 10,994 (33.)
06th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	37	+ 35.103	14th	1: 11.850 (30.)
07th	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	37	+ 35.801	16	1: 11.831 (32nd)
08th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	37	+ 36.335	09	1: 11.512 (29.)
09	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	37	+ 37.111	04th	1: 12.076 (15.)
10	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	37	+ 38.206	20th	1: 10.893 (21.)
11	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	37	+ 43.740	17th	1: 11.407 (28th)
12	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	37	+ 44.243	11	1: 11,560 (32nd)
13	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	37	+ 44.918	07th	1: 12.062 ( 08.)
14th	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	37	+ 49.683	13	1: 11.858 (23rd)
15th	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	37	+ 51.456	12	1: 10.910 (33rd)
16	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	36	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 12.358 (17.)
17th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	36	+ 1 lap	15th	1: 11.730 (32nd)
18th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	34	+ 3 rounds	08th	1: 09.467 (30.)
-	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	26th	+ 11 rounds	18th	1: 10.178 (17.)
-	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	20th	DNF	10	1: 09.754 (12.)

Remarks

1. ↑ Evans subsequently received a five-second time penalty for driving too fast during the Full Course Yellow .

Championship stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively. There were also three points for pole position and one point for the fastest race lap.

Driver ranking

Item driver team Points 01  Sébastien Buemi  Renault e.dams 75 02  Lucas di Grassi  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 46 03  Nicolas Prost  Renault e.dams 36 04th  Jean-Éric Vergne  Techeetah 22nd 05  Felix Rosenqvist  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 20th 06th  Sam Bird  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 18th 07th  Nick Heidfeld  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 17th 08th  Daniel Dept.  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 14th 09  Nelson Piquet Jr.  NextEV NOK 13 10  Oliver Turvey  NextEV NOK 12

Item driver team Points 11  António Félix da Costa  Andretti Formula E. 10 12  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 10 13  Loïc Duval  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 9 14th  Robin Frijns  Andretti Formula E. 8th 15th  Maro Engel  Venturi Formula E team 2 16  José María López  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 2 17th  Stéphane Sarrazin  Venturi Formula E team 1 18th  Adam Carroll  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 19th  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 20th  Qinghua Ma  Techeetah 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Renault e.dams 111 02  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 60 03  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 37 04th  NextEV NOK 25th 05  Techeetah 22nd

Item team Points 06th  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 20th 07th  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 19th 08th  Andretti Formula E. 18th 09  Venturi Formula E team 3 10  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Hirsch: Lopez wants to use home advantage in Buenos Aires, Bird win again. e-Formel.de, February 17, 2017, accessed on February 17, 2017 .