Marrakech ePrix 2016

Marrakech ePrix 2016

Racing data
2nd of 12 races in the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17
Surname:	2016 FIA Formula E Marrakesh ePrix
Date:	November 12, 2016
Place:	Marrakech , Morocco
Course:	Circuit International Automobile Moulay el Hassan
Length:	97.942 km in 33 laps of 2.971 km
Pole position
Driver:	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team
Time:	1: 21.509 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing
Time:	1: 22,600 min (lap 30)
Podium
First:	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams
Second:	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team
Third:	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team

The Marrakech ePrix 2016 (officially: 2016 FIA Formula E Marrakesh ePrix ) took place on November 12th at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay el Hassan in Marrakech and was the second race of the FIA Formula E championship 2016/17 . It was the first Marrakech ePrix as well as the first ePrix that was held on the African continent. It was also the first ePrix to be held on the same track variant as other races on the track.

Since the 22nd UN climate conference was taking place in Marrakech at the same time , the FIA Formula E championship was announced as the official partner of the climate conference.

report

background

After the Hong Kong ePrix , Sébastien Buemi led the drivers' standings with seven points ahead of Lucas di Grassi and ten points ahead of Nick Heidfeld . In the team standings, Renault e.dams was 19 points ahead of the ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and Andretti Formula E teams with the same number of points .

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 second FanBoost in the second race of the season and the ninth each in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, for Abt it was the first FanBoost of his career in the 23rd race .

training

In the first free practice, di Grassi set the fastest time in 1: 21.923 minutes ahead of Buemi and Nicolas Prost .

In the second free practice session, Buemi was fastest with a lap time of 1: 20.599 minutes ahead of Felix Rosenqvist and Jean-Éric Vergne . The training was stopped a few minutes before the end of the training time after an accident by Sam Bird .

Qualifying

Qualifying began 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. Vergne was fastest with a lap time of 1: 20.993 minutes.

The five fastest drivers then drove in the first five positions in the individual time trial called Superpole . Rosenqvist secured pole position with a lap time of 1: 21.509 minutes and thus three points. The other positions were occupied by Buemi, Sam Bird , Nelson Piquet jr. and Vergne, who received the instruction from his team too late to go out onto the track and thus could not take part in the pole shootout. Buemi was subsequently moved five starting positions back because his vehicle was too light in the pole shootout .

run

The race lasted 33 laps.

At the start, the positions at the top remained unchanged. Rosenqvist quickly managed to break away from the rest of the field. The first change in position in the front field occurred on the third lap when Buemi passed his team-mate Prost. On the same lap di Grassi overtook Heidfeld, two laps later both of them overtook Robin Frijns .

Rosenqvist steadily increased his lead and also set the fastest lap of the race at the time. Meanwhile Buemi overtook Abbot, Vergne passed Piquet. Thus Rosenqvist led before Bird, Vergne, Piquet, Buemi, Abt, Prost, Oliver Turvey , António Félix da Costa and di Grassi. Félix da Costa parked his vehicle on the track shortly afterwards, but after two laps he managed to restart the vehicle and drive into the pit lane, where he changed vehicles.

Bird was instructed by radio by his team to save energy in order to delay the change of vehicle by one lap. Vergne, who had less power left in his battery at this point, overtook him on lap 15.

On lap 16, Rosenqvist, Vergne, Piquet, Maro Engel , Stéphane Sarrazin , Heidfeld and Ma Qinghua were the first drivers to come to the pits for regular vehicle changes. The minimum time for changing vehicles was 50 seconds. Engel and Piquet had a technical problem with the second vehicle, so they fell far behind. One lap later, all remaining drivers changed their vehicles. Bird had to save so much energy on this lap that he had to let Buemi pass before the pit stop.

After the pit stops, Rosenqvist led in front of Vergne, Buemi, Bird, Prost, Abt, di Grassi, Turvey, Sarrazin and Heidfeld. Vergne drove too fast in the pit lane and received a drive-through penalty, which he started on lap 23. It fell back to fifth place. Félix da Costa drove the fastest lap of the race to date.

Like Félix da Costa before, Loïc Duval parked his vehicle on the track for a short time. He also managed to restart the car. He pitted and had the vehicle converted to full downforce.

Rosenqvist now had to save energy, his lead over Buemi melted from lap to lap. Buemi also used his FanBoost and caught Rosenqvist by more than a second on lap 25 alone. He finally overtook him on lap 27 and took the lead. Di Grassi passed Abbot on the same lap. Then both Abt pilots caught up with Vergne, who like Rosenqvist had to save energy.

In the following laps, Bird also shortened the gap to Rosenqvist and overtook him on lap 31. Behind them, di Grassi and Abt passed Vergne one after the other. On the last lap, Vergne had to save a lot of energy in order to even reach the goal. He drove extremely slowly and was overtaken by Turvey shortly before the finish line. Duval drove the fastest lap of the race on this lap.

Buemi won ahead of Bird and Rosenqvist. The remaining points were placed by Prost, di Grassi, Abt, Turvey, Vergne, Heidfeld and José María López . The point for the fastest race lap went to Duval.

Buemi built his lead in the overall standings on di Grassi, Prost was now third. Renault e.dams stayed ahead of ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport in the team standings, while Mahindra Racing came third .

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	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 21.175	1: 21.509	01
02	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	1: 21,350	1: 21.546	07th
03	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 21.392	1: 21.686	02
04th	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	1: 21.651	1: 23.879	03
05	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	1: 20.993	no time	04th
06th	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 21.725	-	05
07th	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	1: 21.777	-	06th
08th	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	1: 21.853	-	08th
09	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	1: 21.912	-	09
10	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	1: 22.073	-	10
11	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 22.074	-	11
12	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 22.081	-	12
13	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 22.133	-	13
14th	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	1: 22.236	-	14th
15th	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	1: 22.270	-	15th
16	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 22.355	-	16
17th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 22.681	-	17th
18th	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	1: 23.248	-	18th
19th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 23.933	-	19th
20th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 25.695	-	20th
110 percent time : 1: 29.092 min (based on the best time of 1: 20.993 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Buemi was moved five starting positions back because his vehicle was too light in the pole shootout .

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	33	47: 40.840	07th	1: 23.663 (21.)
02	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	33	+ 2.457	02	1: 24.173 (21.)
03	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	33	+ 7.195	01	1: 24.579 (13.)
04th	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	33	+ 11,586	06th	1: 24.212 (21.)
05	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	33	+ 13.771	12	1: 24.340 (25.)
06th	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	33	+ 18.233	05	1: 24.219 (24.)
07th	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	33	+ 21.710	08th	1: 24.751 (19.)
08th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	33	+ 28.011	04th	1: 24.535 (25.)
09	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	33	+ 33.699	11	1: 24.861 (23.)
10	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	33	+ 33.863	13	1: 24.690 (20.)
11	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	33	+ 37.092	09	1: 24.675 (22.)
12	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	33	+ 40.683	15th	1: 25.260 (30.)
13	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	33	+ 42.034	17th	1: 24.946 (22.)
14th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	33	+ 49.026	20th	1: 24.906 (24.)
15th	Ma Qinghua	Techeetah	33	+ 50.433	18th	1: 25.402 (29.)
16	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	33	+1: 15.452	03	1: 25.091 (10.)
17th	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	32	+ 1 lap	16	1: 24.982 (24.)
18th	Loïc Duval	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	30th	+ 3 rounds	19th	1: 22,600 (30.)
-	Maro Engel	Venturi Formula E team	26th	+ 7 rounds	14th	1: 23.164 (20.)
-	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	21st	DNF	10	1: 23.088 (20.)

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 are 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 50 02  Lucas di Grassi  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 28 03  Nicolas Prost  Renault e.dams 24 04th  Felix Rosenqvist  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 19th 05  Sam Bird  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 18th 06th  Nick Heidfeld  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 17th 07th  António Félix da Costa  Andretti Formula E. 10 08th  Oliver Turvey  NextEV NOK 10 09  Robin Frijns  Andretti Formula E. 8th 10  Daniel Dept.  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 8th

Item driver team Points 11  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 6th 12  Jean-Éric Vergne  Techeetah 4th 13  Nelson Piquet Jr.  NextEV NOK 3 14th  Maro Engel  Venturi Formula E team 2 15th  Stéphane Sarrazin  Venturi Formula E team 1 16  José María López  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 1 17th  Loïc Duval  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 1 18th  Adam Carroll  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0 19th  Qinghua Ma  Techeetah 0 20th  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Renault e.dams 74 02  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 36 03  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 36 04th  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 19th 05  Andretti Formula E. 18th

Item team Points 06th  NextEV NOK 13 07th  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 7th 08th  Techeetah 4th 09  Venturi Formula E team 3 10  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norman Fischer: Marrakech: Formula E becomes partner of the UN climate conference. Motorsport-Total.com, October 17, 2016, accessed October 18, 2016 . 
2. ^ Formula E: Lucas di Grassi wins 1st free practice in Marrakech. e-Formel.de, November 12, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2016 . 
3. ^ Formula E: Buemi wins 2nd free practice after a Bird accident. e-Formel.de, November 12, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2016 .