Hong Kong ePrix 2016

Hong Kong ePrix 2016

Racing data
1st of 12 races of the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17
Surname:	2016 FIA Formula E HKT Hong Kong ePrix
Date:	October 9, 2016
Place:	Hong Kong
Course:	Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit
Length:	83.598 km in 45 laps of 1.86 km
Pole position
Driver:	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK
Time:	1: 03.099 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team
Time:	1: 02.947 min (lap 36)
Podium
First:	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams
Second:	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport
Third:	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team

The Hong Kong ePrix 2016 (officially: 2016 FIA Formula E HKT Hong Kong ePrix ) took place on October 9 at the Hong Kong Central Harbourfront Circuit in Hong Kong and was the first race of the 2016/17 FIA Formula E Championship . It was the first Hong Kong ePrix.

report

background

The Hong Kong ePrix 2016 was the first race in the FIA Formula E Championship to take place exclusively on a Sunday. Before that, the races took place exclusively on Saturdays or as a double header on Saturdays and Sundays. For the first time, the teams used the new front wing, the look of which was more futuristic and should make the vehicle design stand out even further from other formula vehicles. In addition, the maximum power during recuperation has been increased from 100 to 150 kilowatts, which means that the drivers have more energy available during the race. This should enable a significantly higher speed in racing.

Adam Carroll , Maro Engel , Mitch Evans , José María López and Felix Rosenqvist made their debut at this ePrix in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, as did Jaguar Racing and Techeetah . António Félix da Costa and Jean-Éric Vergne drove for their new teams for the first time.

Sébastien Buemi , Lucas di Grassi and López 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.

training

Di Grassi was fastest in the first free practice with a lap time of 1: 02.381 minutes ahead of Buemi and Daniel Abt .

In the second free practice, Vergne was fastest with a lap time of 1: 02.350 minutes ahead of Nicolas Prost and Sam Bird .

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. Before qualifying, the race management decided to remove the curbs in a chicane, which led to several accidents and complaints from numerous pilots. Di Grassi, Robin Frijns and Qinghua Ma hit the lane in this chicane, after the Frijns accident qualifying had to be interrupted for around 30 minutes.

Nelson Piquet qr. Was fastest with a lap time of 1: 03.099 minutes ahead of Oliver Turvey and López. The individual time trial for the first five positions, called Superpole , was canceled due to the delay caused by the accident at Frijns, so Piquet received three points for pole position.

Loïc Duval , who had qualified for eighth place on the grid, was moved three positions back because he drove too fast during the shakedown the day before with red flags. Carroll received the same penalty for driving too fast in free practice with red flags.

run

The race lasted 46 laps.

At the start, the positions at the top remained unchanged. In the narrow first bend, a backlog formed on the inside of the lane, so that Nick Heidfeld and Duval overtook several vehicles on the outside lane . At the exit of the bend, Bird overtook his team-mate López and the vehicles came into contact. While Bird was able to drive on without any problems, López then touched the barrier and damaged his vehicle. Buemi took advantage of the situation and overtook López before turn two . When braking into turn two , Félix da Costa first ran into Abt. Prost driving behind had to brake hard so that Ma Qinghua hit him, who in turn was hit by di Grassi. For Qinghua, the race was over with a broken front suspension.

On the second lap, Heidfeld, Rosenqvist and Duval passed López, and the race management showed the fried egg flag for Abt, as the rear wing of his vehicle had come off after the collision on the first lap. He drove into the pits for repairs and lost two laps until his team sent him back out onto the track without a rear wing.

López quickly lost further positions and was only twelfth on the fifth lap. At the same time di Grassi was shown the fried egg flag because his front wing was damaged and the race management feared that di Grassi could lose parts of the front wing. On the sixth lap, Bird overtook Turvey, who one lap later also had to let Buemi pass. Di Grassi came to the pits on the eighth lap to stop repairs, but he lost significantly less time than Abt and was still in one lap with the leaders. One lap later, Vergne pitted with technical problems and changed his car. Since the distance up to the end of the race was too great to be driven through with a vehicle, he concentrated on achieving the fastest lap, which he initially managed on lap 16.

On lap 14, Rosenqvist spun and hit the track barrier. He drove his damaged vehicle into the pits and got into his second vehicle. On lap 17, López, who was driving directly in front of the leader Piquet, also hit the lane after a suspension break. Piquet had to brake hard to avoid a collision with López's vehicle and also hit the barriers. In contrast to López, who retired, he did not damage his vehicle in the process, so that he could continue driving, now in third place. The race management sent the safety car out onto the track to rescue López's vehicle .

Abt and di Grassi used the safety car phase on lap 18 to change vehicles. Since the recovery of the wreck was delayed, Buemi, Heidfeld, Duval, Turvey, Prost and Jérôme D'Ambrosio also drove to change vehicles on lap 20 . They all fell behind di Grassi, who was now in ninth place. The race was reopened at the end of lap 21. Piquet immediately drove to change vehicles and fell back to 15th place. Buemi overtook di Grassi and was now in eighth place.

On lap 24, Félix da Costa, Engel and Stéphane Sarrazin, the next drivers came to the pits to change vehicles, one lap later Bird, Carroll and Evans. Bird and Evans couldn't start their second vehicle due to technical problems. Bird fell back one lap, Evans even had to give up the race completely. The last driver to change his car was Frijns on lap 26.

After the pit stops, Buemi led in front of di Grassi, Heidfeld, Prost, Turvey, D'Ambrosio, Duval, Félix da Costa, Piquet and Engel.

Frijns, who had significantly more energy available due to his late car change, overtook Engel on lap 30. Duval suffered from braking problems and gradually lost more and more positions. Vergne gave up the race on lap 34, the battery on his second car was empty. Frijns also overtook Piquet on lap 37 and was now behind Félix da Costa. Both quickly caught up with D'Ambrosio and Turvey and overtook both in quick succession. The positions at the top remained unchanged, with all drivers at least two seconds apart so that there were no battles for positions.

Buemi won ahead of di Grassi and Heidfeld. The remaining points were placed by Prost, Félix da Costa, Frijns, D'Ambrosio, Turvey, Engel and Sarrazin. The point for the fastest race lap went to Rosenqvist.

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	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	1: 03.099	-	01
02	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	1: 03.231	-	02
03	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 03.251	-	03
04th	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 03.258	-	04th
05	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	1: 03.317	-	05
06th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 03.332	-	06th
07th	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 03.615	-	07th
08th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 03.637	-	11
09	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	1: 03.750	-	08th
10	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	1: 03.759	-	09
11	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 03.848	-	10
12	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	1: 03.915	-	12
13	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	1: 04.057	-	13
14th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 04.428	-	17th
15th	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	1: 04.520	-	14th
16	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 04.588	-	15th
17th	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	1: 04.740	-	16
18th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 05.166	-	18th
19th	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 08.094	-	19th
110 percent time : 1: 09.409 min (based on the best time of 1: 03.099 min)
20th	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	1: 10.407	-	20th

Remarks

1. ↑ Duval was moved three places back because he drove too fast with red flags in the shakedown the day before the race.
2. ↑ Carroll was moved three places back because he drove too fast in free practice with red flags.

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	45	53: 13.298	05	1: 04.256 (12.)
02	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	45	+ 2.477	19th	1: 03.648 (10.)
03	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	45	+ 5.522	10	1: 05.085 ( 05.)
04th	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	45	+ 7.360	09	1: 04.683 ( 06.)
05	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	45	+ 17.987	13	1: 04.342 (30.)
06th	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	45	+ 21.161	20th	1: 04.143 (32nd)
07th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	45	+ 28.443	18th	1: 05.559 ( 07.)
08th	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	45	+ 30.355	02	1: 05.344 ( 05.)
09	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	45	+ 30.898	12	1: 04,390 (33rd)
10	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	45	+ 31.734	14th	1: 04.289 (32nd)
11	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	45	+ 35.256	01	1: 04.267 (11.)
12	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	45	+ 43.839	17th	1: 04.732 (33rd)
13	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	45	+ 48.058	04th	1: 03,372 (41st)
14th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	43	+ 2 rounds	11	1: 04.712 (40th)
15th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	43	+ 2 rounds	06th	1: 02.947 (36th)
-	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	34	DNF	07th	1: 03.263 (25.)
-	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	31	DNF	08th	1: 03.078 (28th)
-	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	24	DNF	15th	1: 05.474 (10.)
-	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	15th	DNF	03	1: 05.344 (11th)
-	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	01	DNF	16	-

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 25th 02  Lucas di Grassi  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 18th 03  Nick Heidfeld  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 15th 04th  Nicolas Prost  Renault e.dams 12 05  António Félix da Costa  Andretti Formula E. 10 06th  Robin Frijns  Andretti Formula E. 8th 07th  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 6th 08th  Oliver Turvey  NextEV NOK 4th 09  Nelson Piquet Jr.  NextEV NOK 3 10  Maro Engel  Venturi Formula E team 2

Item driver team Points 11  Stéphane Sarrazin  Venturi Formula E team 1 12  Felix Rosenqvist  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 1 13  Adam Carroll  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 14th  Sam Bird  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 0 15th  Loïc Duval  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 0 16  Daniel Dept.  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 0 17th  Jean-Éric Vergne  Techeetah 0 18th  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 19th  José María López  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 0 20th  Qinghua Ma  Techeetah 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Renault e.dams 37 02  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 18th 03  Andretti Formula E. 18th 04th  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 16 05  NextEV NOK 7th

Item team Points 06th  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 6th 07th  Venturi Formula E team 3 08th  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 09  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 0 10  Techeetah 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norman Fischer: Formula E 2016 Hong Kong: Piquet takes pole in Crashfest qualification. Motorsport-Total.com, October 9, 2016, accessed October 9, 2016 .