Hong Kong E-Prix 2019

Hong Kong E-Prix 2019

Racing data
5th of 13 races of the FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19
Surname:	2019 HKT Hong Kong E-Prix
Date:	March 10, 2019
Place:	Hong Kong
Course:	Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit
Length:	66.858 km in 36 laps of 1.86 km
Pole position
Driver:	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab
Time:	1: 11.580 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah
Time:	1: 02.317 min (lap 28)
Podium
First:	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi Formula E team
Second:	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team
Third:	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing

The Hong Kong E-Prix 2019 (officially: 2019 HKT Hong Kong E-Prix ) took place on March 10th at the Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit in Hong Kong and was the fifth race of the FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 . It was the third Hong Kong E-Prix and the 50th race of the FIA ​​Formula E Championship.

report

background

After the Mexico City E-Prix , Jérôme D'Ambrosio leads the drivers' standings with seven points ahead of António Félix da Costa and eight points ahead of Sam Bird . In the team standings, Mahindra Racing is ten points ahead of Envision Virgin Racing and 19 points ahead of BMW i Andretti Motorsport .

With Bird and Sébastien Buemi , two former winners competed in this race.

Daniel Abt , Buemi, Félix da Costa, Stoffel Vandoorne and Pascal Wehrlein received a so-called fan boost in the race ; after the 23rd minute of the race, they were allowed to increase the output of their vehicle to 240 kW to 250 kW and thus up to 100 kilojoules of additional energy use. Buemi received his 31st Fanboost in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship and Abt his 22nd Felix da Costa and Vandoorne each received the additional energy for the fifth time, each time this season. Wehrlein won the Fanboost for the second time, having previously received it on his debut in Marrakech .

After the Hong Kong ePrix 2016 and the Zurich E-Prix 2018, the Hong Kong E-Prix was the third E-Prix that took place exclusively on a Sunday.

training

In the first free practice session, Oliver Rowland set the fastest time in 1: 09.283 minutes, ahead of André Lotterer and Jean-Éric Vergne . The training started in wet conditions, towards the end the track continued to dry out.

In the second free practice session, which started again on a wet track that dried out during practice, Robin Frijns was fastest with a lap time of 1: 09.221 minutes ahead of Rowland and Lotterer.

Qualifying

Qualifying began at 11:45 a.m. and took place in four groups of five or six drivers each, each group had six minutes in which the drivers could do a maximum of one timed lap with an output of 200 kW and then a maximum of one timed lap with an output of 250 kW were allowed to drive. It started to rain again before qualifying. Stoffel Vandoorne was fastest with a lap time of 1: 11.592 minutes. Qualifying had to be briefly interrupted after Vergne spun.

The six fastest drivers then drove in the first six positions in the individual time trial called Superpole . Vandoorne secured pole position with a lap time of 1: 11.580 minutes and thus three points. It was the first pole position and the first points for Vandoorne and HWA Racelab in the FIA ​​Formula E championship. The other positions were occupied by Rowland, Edoardo Mortara , Lotterer, Gary Paffett and Lucas di Grassi .

run

The race lasted 45 minutes plus one lap. Each driver had to activate the attack mode twice; after activation, the vehicle produced a maximum of 225 kW instead of 200 kW for a period of four minutes.

Mortara won the race ahead of di Grassi and Frijns. The remaining points were placed by Daniel Abt , Felipe Massa , Bird, Mitch Evans , Paffett, Oliver Turvey and Félix da Costa. The point for the fastest race lap in the top ten went to Bird.

Registration list

All teams and drivers used Michelin tires .

team	vehicle	No.	driver
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	Audi e-tron FE05	11	Lucas di Grassi
		66	Daniel Dept.
DS Techeetah	DS E-Tense FE 19	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne
		36	André Lotterer
Envision Virgin Racing	Audi e-tron FE05	02	Sam Bird
		04th	Robin Frijns
Mahindra Racing	Mahindra M5Electro	64	Jérôme D'Ambrosio
		94	Pascal Wehrlein
Nissan e.dams	Nissan IM01	22nd	Oliver Rowland
		23	Sébastien Buemi
Panasonic Jaguar Racing	Jaguar I-Type III	03	Nelson Piquet Jr.
		20th	Mitch Evans
Venturi Formula E team	Venturi VFE05	19th	Felipe Massa
		48	Edoardo Mortara
NIO Formula E team	NIO Sport 004	08th	Tom Dillmann
		16	Oliver Turvey
Geox Dragon	PENSKE EV-3	06th	Felipe Nasr
		07th	José María López
BMW i Andretti Motorsport	BMW iFE.18	27	Alexander Sims
		28	António Félix da Costa
HWA Racelab	Venturi VFE05	05	Stoffel Vandoorne
		17th	Gary Paffett

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	team	time	Super pole	begin
01	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab	1: 11.592	1: 11.580	01
02	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	1: 12,140	1: 11.903	02
03	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi Formula E team	1: 12.156	1: 12.310	06th
04th	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah	1: 12.204	1: 12.868	03
05	Gary Paffett	HWA Racelab	1: 12.093	1: 13.033	04th
06th	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	1: 12.321	1: 14.177	05
07th	Sam Bird	Envision Virgin Racing	1: 12.529	-	07th
08th	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	1: 12.529	-	08th
09	Felipe Massa	Venturi Formula E team	1: 12.570	-	09
10	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing	1: 12,600	-	10
11	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E team	1: 12.839	-	11
12	Daniel Dept.	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	1: 12.850	-	12
13	Alexander Sims	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	1: 12.861	-	13
14th	José María López	Geox Dragon	1: 13.073	-	14th
15th	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 13.421	-	15th
16	António Félix da Costa	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	1: 13.885	-	16
17th	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 13.920	-	17th
18th	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Techeetah	1: 13.927	-	18th
19th	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E team	1: 14.133	-	19th
20th	Felipe Nasr	Geox Dragon	1: 14.384	-	20th
21st	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	1: 14.830	-	21st
22nd	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	1: 15.347	-	22nd
110 percent time : 1: 18.751 min (based on the best time of 1: 11.592 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Mortara was moved three positions back because he drove too fast with red flags.

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi Formula E team	36	0: 59: 36.119	06th	1: 03.251 (29.)
02	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	36	+ 0.988	05	1: 03.214 (29.)
03	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing	36	+ 1.536	10	1: 03.202 (29.)
04th	Daniel Dept.	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	36	+ 1.985	12	1: 03.238 (29.)
05	Felipe Massa	Venturi Formula E team	36	+ 3.258	09	1: 03,535 (30.)
06th	Sam Bird	Envision Virgin Racing	36	+ 3.306	07th	1: 02.358 (28th)
07th	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	36	+ 4.017	17th	1: 03,561 (29.)
08th	Gary Paffett	HWA Racelab	36	+ 4.368	04th	1: 03.719 (29.)
09	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E team	36	+ 5.624	19th	1: 03,705 (29.)
10	António Félix da Costa	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	36	+ 6.492	16	1: 03.688 (29.)
11	José María López	Geox Dragon	36	+ 7.218	14th	1: 03.857 (28th)
12	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E team	36	+ 7.825	11	1: 03.866 (29.)
13	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Techeetah	36	+ 16.604	18th	1: 03.611 (29.)
14th	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah	36	+ 24.270	03	1: 02.317 (28th)
-	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	29	DNF	02	1: 03.766 (28th)
-	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab	20th	DNF	01	1: 03.674 (20.)
-	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	19th	DNF	08th	1: 04.312 (17.)
-	Alexander Sims	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	16	DNF	13	1: 04.899 (16.)
-	Felipe Nasr	Geox Dragon	01	DNF	20th	-
-	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	01	DNF	21st	-
-	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	01	DNF	22nd	-
-	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	00	DNF	15th	-

Remarks

1. ↑ Bird was subsequently given a five-second penalty for causing a collision.

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. In addition, there were three points for pole position and one point for the driver in the top ten who achieved the fastest race lap.

Driver ranking

Item driver team Points 01  Sam Bird  Envision Virgin Racing 54 02  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Mahindra Racing 53 03  Lucas di Grassi  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 52 04th  Edoardo Mortara  Venturi Formula E team 52 05  António Félix da Costa  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 47 06th  Robin Frijns  Envision Virgin Racing 43 07th  Daniel Dept.  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 34 08th  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 34 09  Pascal Wehrlein  Mahindra Racing 30th 10  André Lotterer  DS Techeetah 29 11  Jean-Éric Vergne  DS Techeetah 28 12  Alexander Sims  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 18th

Item driver team Points 13  Sébastien Buemi  Nissan e.dams 15th 14th  Felipe Massa  Venturi Formula E team 14th 15th  Oliver Rowland  Nissan e.dams 6th 16  Oliver Turvey  NIO Formula E team 6th 17th  Gary Paffett  HWA Racelab 4th 18th  Stoffel Vandoorne  HWA Racelab 3 19th  José María López  Geox Dragon 2 20th  Nelson Piquet Jr.  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 1 21st  Tom Dillmann  NIO Formula E team 0 22nd  Maximilian Günther  Geox Dragon 0 23  Felipe Nasr  Geox Dragon 0 -  Felix Rosenqvist  Mahindra Racing 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Envision Virgin Racing 97 02  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 86 03  Mahindra Racing 83 04th  Venturi Formula E team 66 05  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 65 06th  DS Techeetah 57

Item team Points 07th  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 35 08th  Nissan e.dams 21st 09  HWA Racelab 7th 10  NIO Formula E team 6th 11  Geox Dragon 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Bluhm: https://www.e-formel.de/news/elektro-jubil%C3%A4um- Zwischen-wolkenkratzern-die-grosse-formel-e-vorschau-auf-den- hong-kong- e- prix-2019-4673.html. e-Formel.de, March 6, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2019 .