Paris ePrix 2017

Paris ePrix 2017

Racing data
6th of 12 races of the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17
Surname:	2017 FIA Formula E Qatar Airways Paris ePrix
Date:	20th May 2017
Place:	Paris , France
Course:	Circuit des Invalides
Length:	93.7 km in 49 laps of 1.92 km
Pole position
Driver:	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams
Time:	1: 02.319 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team
Time:	1: 02.422 min
Podium
First:	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams
Second:	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team
Third:	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team

The Paris ePrix 2017 (officially: 2017 FIA Formula E Qatar Airways Paris ePrix ) took place on May 20th on the Circuit des Invalides in Paris and was the sixth race of the FIA Formula E Championship 2016/17 . It was the second Paris ePrix.

For the first time in the history of the FIA Formula E Championship , a race took place just one week after the previous ePrix.

report

background

After the Monaco ePrix , Sébastien Buemi led the drivers' standings with 15 points ahead of Lucas di Grassi and with 56 points ahead of Nicolas Prost . In the team standings, Renault e.dams was 37 points ahead of ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and 92 points ahead of Mahindra Racing .

At Dragon Racing , Mike Conway replaced Loïc Duval in this race , who was unable to contest the ePrix because of the DTM race at the Lausitzring . At Venturi , Tom Dillmann replaced Maro Engel , who also competed in the DTM, for an event . While Conway already contested seven races for Venturi in the 2015/16 FIA Formula E Championship , Dillmann made his debut in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship in this race.

With Lucas di Grassi , a former winner entered 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 each received the sixth FanBoost in the sixth race of the season and the thirteenth each in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, for Abt it was the fourth FanBoost this season.

training

In the first free practice session Buemi set the fastest time in 1: 01.998 minutes ahead of José María López and Jean-Éric Vergne .

In the second free practice, di Grassi was fastest in 1: 01.359 minutes ahead of López and Buemi.

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. Buemi was fastest with a lap time of 1: 02.171 minutes.

The five fastest drivers then drove in the first five positions in the individual time trial called Superpole . Buemi secured pole position with a lap time of 1: 02.319 minutes and thus three points. The other positions occupied Vergne, López, Oliver Turvey and Esteban Gutiérrez .

run

The race lasted 49 laps. The minimum time for changing vehicles was 70 seconds.

Buemi won ahead of López and Nick Heidfeld . The remaining points were placed by Felix Rosenqvist , Prost, Robin Frijns , Nelson Piquet jr. , Dillmann, Mitch Evans and Stéphane Sarrazin . The point for the fastest race lap went to Sam Bird .

In the driver and team standings, the first three places remained unchanged.

Registration list

All teams and drivers use 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	Mike Conway
		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	Tom Dillmann
Andretti Formula E.	Andretti ATEC-02	27	Robin Frijns
		28	António Félix da Costa
Techeetah	Renault ZE16	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne
		33	Esteban Gutiérrez
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	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	1: 02.171	1: 02.319	01
02	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	1: 02.274	1: 02.325	02
03	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 02.384	1: 02.640	03
04th	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	1: 02.459	1: 02.910	14th
05	Esteban Gutiérrez	Techeetah	1: 02.597	1: 13.287	04th
06th	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 02.611	-	05
07th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	1: 02.617	-	06th
08th	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	1: 02.654	-	07th
09	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 02.687	-	08th
10	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	1: 02.746	-	09
11	Mike Conway	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 02,808	-	10
12	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	1: 02.810	-	11
13	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	1: 02.814	-	12
14th	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 02.840	-	13
15th	Tom Dillmann	Venturi Formula E team	1: 03.024	-	15th
16	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	1: 03.071	-	16
17th	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	1: 03.268	-	17th
18th	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	1: 03.573	-	18th
19th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 03.771	-	19th
20th	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	1: 06.121	-	20th
110 percent time : 1: 08.388 min (based on the best time of 1: 02.171 min)

Remarks

1. ↑ Turvey was moved back ten starting positions because parts of the drive unit were exchanged.

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Sébastien Buemi	Renault e.dams	49	59: 41.125	01	1: 03,197 (44th)
02	José María López	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	49	+ 0.707	03	1: 03.299 (44th)
03	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	49	+ 2.043	05	1: 03,401 (41st)
04th	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing Formula E Team	49	+ 2.621	06th	1: 03.461 (43rd)
05	Nicolas Prost	Renault e.dams	49	+ 3.521	09	1: 03.821 (40th)
06th	Robin Frijns	Andretti Formula E.	49	+ 7.999	07th	1: 03.847 (40th)
07th	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV NOK	49	+ 32,420	11	1: 03.772 (45th)
08th	Tom Dillmann	Venturi Formula E team	49	+ 32.929	15th	1: 04.066 (46th)
09	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	49	+ 33.369	08th	1: 04.216 (46.)
10	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi Formula E team	49	+ 34.051	20th	1: 03,907 (24.)
11	Oliver Turvey	NextEV NOK	49	+ 35.082	14th	1: 04.268 (46.)
12	Esteban Gutiérrez	Techeetah	49	+ 36.197	04th	1: 03,660 (42nd)
13	Daniel Dept.	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	48	DNF	16	1: 03.776 (40th)
14th	Mike Conway	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	48	+ 1 lap	10	1: 03,146 (45th)
15th	Adam Carroll	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	48	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 04,250 (42nd)
16	Sam Bird	DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team	47	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 02.422 (42nd)
-	Lucas di Grassi	ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport	38	DNF	13	1: 02.446 (37th)
-	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Faraday Future Dragon Racing	35	DNF	12	1: 02.666 (33rd)
-	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah	33	DNF	02	1: 03.610 (11.)
-	António Félix da Costa	Andretti Formula E.	18th	DNF	17th	1: 04.689 (12.)

Remarks

1. ↑ Frijns received a five-second time penalty for driving too fast during the full course yellow.
2. ↑ Gutiérrez 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 132 02  Lucas di Grassi  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 89 03  Nicolas Prost  Renault e.dams 58 04th  Nick Heidfeld  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 47 05  Jean-Éric Vergne  Techeetah 40 06th  Felix Rosenqvist  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 40 07th  Sam Bird  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 35 08th  Nelson Piquet Jr.  NextEV NOK 33 09  José María López  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 28 10  Daniel Dept.  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 26th 11  Robin Frijns  Andretti Formula E. 16 12  Oliver Turvey  NextEV NOK 15th

Item driver team Points 13  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 15th 14th  Maro Engel  Venturi Formula E team 12 15th  António Félix da Costa  Andretti Formula E. 10 16  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 10 17th  Loïc Duval  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 9 18th  Esteban Gutiérrez  Techeetah 5 19th  Adam Carroll  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 4th 20th  Tom Dillmann  Venturi Formula E team 4th 21st  Stéphane Sarrazin  Venturi Formula E team 2 22nd  Mike Conway  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 0 23  Qinghua Ma  Techeetah 0

Team evaluation

Item team Points 01  Renault e.dams 190 02  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 115 03  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 87 04th  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 63 05  NextEV NOK 48

Item team Points 06th  Techeetah 45 07th  Andretti Formula E. 26th 08th  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 19th 09  Faraday Future Dragon Racing 19th 10  Venturi Formula E team 18th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Norman Fischer: Formula E preview Paris: Will di Grassi strike back again? Motorsport-Total.com, May 19, 2017, accessed May 20, 2017 . 
2. ^ Norman Fischer: Formula E: Mike Conway replaces Loic Duval in Paris. Motorsport-Total.com, April 21, 2017, accessed April 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Timo Pape: Formula E: Tom Dillmann replaces Maro Engel in Paris. e-Formel.de, April 21, 2017, accessed on April 21, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Stewards Bulletin 2 - information. (PDF) FIA, May 19, 2017, accessed on May 20, 2017 (English).