Rome E-Prix 2019

Rome E-Prix 2019

Racing data
7th of 13 races of the FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19
Surname:	2019 Geox Rome E-Prix
Date:	April 13, 2019
Place:	Rome , Italy
Course:	Circuito cittadino dell'EUR
Length:	82.28 km in 29 laps of 2.87 km
Pole position
Driver:	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah
Time:	1: 32.123 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Techeetah
Time:	1: 31.016 min (lap 27)
Podium
First:	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing
Second:	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah
Third:	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab

The Rome E-Prix 2019 (officially: 2019 Geox Rome E-Prix ) took place on April 13th at the Circuito cittadino dell'EUR in Rome and was the seventh race of the FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 . It was also the start of the voestalpine European Races , a special ranking within the championship. It was the second Rome E-Prix.

report

background

After the Sanya E-Prix , António Félix da Costa was leading the drivers' standings with one point ahead of Jérôme D'Ambrosio and eight points ahead of Jean-Éric Vergne and Sam Bird , who were tied on points . In the team standings, Virgin Racing tied on points with Mahindra Racing , both were one point ahead of Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler .

At Dragon Racing , Maximilian Günther replaced Felipe Nasr in this race , as Nasr was unable to participate due to his involvement in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship . Nelson Piquet Jr. was replaced at Jaguar Racing by Alex Lynn before the race . It was the first E-Prix in which Piquet did not participate.

With Bird, a former winner entered this race.

Daniel Abt , Sébastien Buemi , Lucas di Grassi , Félix da Costa and Stoffel Vandoorne received a so-called fan boost in the race ; after the 23rd minute of the race, they were allowed to increase the power of their vehicle to 240 kW to 250 kW and thus up to 100 kilojoules Use energy additionally. Buemi received his 33rd Fanboost in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship, di Grassi his 29th and Abt his 24th. Felix da Costa and Vandoorne each received the additional energy for the seventh time, each time this season.

training

In the first free practice Oliver Rowland set the fastest time in 1: 29.738 minutes ahead of Vergne and di Grassi.

Vergne drove the fastest lap in the second free practice in 1: 29.270 minutes ahead of Félix da Costa and Buemi.

Qualifying

Qualifying began at 12:00 p.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. André Lotterer was fastest with a lap time of 1: 29.761 minutes.

The six fastest drivers then drove in the first six positions in the individual time trial called Superpole . Before the Superpole it rained briefly, but the track then dried up again. Lotterer secured pole position with a lap time of 1: 32.123 minutes and thus three points. The other positions were occupied by Mitch Evans , José María López , Vandoorne, Günther and Buemi. With these three points, DS Techeetah took the lead in the team classification.

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.

Evans won the race ahead of Lotterer and Vandoorne. It was the first victory for Evans and Jaguar Racing in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship. For Vandoorne and HWA Racelab it was the first podium result in the championship. The remaining points were placed by Robin Frijns , Buemi, Rowland, di Grassi, D'Ambrosio, Félix da Costa and Wehrlein. The point for the fastest race lap for the top ten went to Buemi.

D'Ambrosio again took the lead in the overall standings from Félix da Costa, Lotterer was now third. In the team standings, DS Techeetah was now ahead of Virgin and Audi.

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	Alex Lynn
		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	Maximilian Günther
		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	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah	1: 29.761	1: 32.123	01
02	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 29.942	1: 32.483	02
03	José María López	Geox Dragon	1: 30.099	1: 32.906	03
04th	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab	1: 30.207	1: 33.233	04th
05	Maximilian Günther	Geox Dragon	1: 30.277	1: 35.640	05
06th	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	1: 30.341	1: 36.331	06th
07th	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi Formula E team	1: 30.397	-	07th
08th	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing	1: 30.422	-	08th
09	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	1: 30.609	-	14th
10	Felipe Massa	Venturi Formula E team	1: 30.623	-	09
11	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	1: 30.723	-	10
12	António Félix da Costa	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	1: 30.804	-	11
13	Sam Bird	Envision Virgin Racing	1: 30.880	-	12
14th	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	1: 30.977	-	13
15th	Gary Paffett	HWA Racelab	1: 30.980	-	15th
16	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Techeetah	1: 31.016	-	16
17th	Daniel Dept.	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	1: 31.043	-	17th
18th	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E team	1: 31.043	-	18th
19th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	1: 31.192	-	19th
20th	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E team	1: 31.220	-	20th
110 percent time : 1: 38.737 min (based on the best time of 1: 29.761 min)
21st	Alex Lynn	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	1: 39.657	-	21st
22nd	Alexander Sims	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	no time	-	22nd

Remarks

1. ↑ Wehrlein was moved five positions back because he drove too fast in free practice with red flags.
2. ↑ Lynn's fastest lap was canceled because he briefly used more than the maximum permitted 250 kW power.
3. ↑ Lynn was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.
4. ↑ Sims was allowed to start because he was fast enough in free practice.

run

Item	driver	team	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Mitch Evans	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	29	1: 33: 51.140	02	1: 32.291 (23.)
02	André Lotterer	DS Techeetah	29	+ 0.979	01	1: 32,100 (21.)
03	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA Racelab	29	+ 6.399	04th	1: 32.824 (22.)
04th	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing	29	+ 9.181	08th	1: 32.371 (26.)
05	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	29	+ 9.778	06th	1: 31.499 (28th)
06th	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	29	+ 11.262	10	1: 32.255 (29.)
07th	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	29	+ 24.340	13	1: 32.273 (25.)
08th	Jérôme D'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	29	+ 28.633	19th	1: 32,400 (28th)
09	António Félix da Costa	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	29	+ 30.651	11	1: 32.041 (27.)
10	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	29	+ 30.735	14th	1: 32.281 (24.)
11	Sam Bird	Envision Virgin Racing	29	+ 32.272	12	1: 32,409 (28.)
12	Alex Lynn	Panasonic Jaguar Racing	29	+ 42.238	21st	1: 32,995 (23.)
13	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E team	29	+ 48.616	18th	1: 33.328 (21.)
14th	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS Techeetah	29	+ 49.732	16	1: 31.016 (27.)
15th	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E team	29	+ 52.253	20th	1: 33.582 (15.)
16	José María López	Geox Dragon	29	+1: 10.373	03	1: 32.906 (27.)
17th	Alexander Sims	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	29	+1: 11.373	22nd	1: 32.435 ( 07.)
18th	Daniel Dept.	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team	28	DNF	17th	1: 32.498 (25.)
19th	Maximilian Günther	Geox Dragon	28	DNF	05	1: 33.429 (16.)
-	Felipe Massa	Venturi Formula E team	11	DNF	09	1: 33.848 ( 08th)
-	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi Formula E team	08th	DNF	07th	1: 33.642 ( 07.)
-	Gary Paffett	HWA Racelab	00	DNF	15th	-

Remarks

1. ↑ Félix da Costa subsequently received a five-second penalty because his battery charge level on the grid did not match the specified parameters.
2. ↑ Vergne subsequently received a drive-through penalty which was converted into a time penalty of 37 seconds for overtaking during the full course yellow.
3. ↑ Günther subsequently received a drive-through penalty, which was converted into a time penalty of 37 seconds because he had only used the attack mode once.
4. ↑ Günther subsequently received a five-second penalty because he drove 52 km / h instead of the permitted 50 km / h 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. 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  Jérôme D'Ambrosio  Mahindra Racing 65 02  António Félix da Costa  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 64 03  André Lotterer  DS Techeetah 62 04th  Mitch Evans  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 61 05  Lucas di Grassi  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 58 06th  Robin Frijns  Envision Virgin Racing 55 07th  Jean-Éric Vergne  DS Techeetah 54 08th  Sam Bird  Envision Virgin Racing 54 09  Edoardo Mortara  Venturi Formula E team 52 10  Daniel Dept.  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 44 11  Pascal Wehrlein  Mahindra Racing 37 12  Oliver Rowland  Nissan e.dams 35

Item driver team Points 13  Sébastien Buemi  Nissan e.dams 34 14th  Stoffel Vandoorne  HWA Racelab 18th 15th  Alexander Sims  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 18th 16  Felipe Massa  Venturi Formula E team 15th 17th  Oliver Turvey  NIO Formula E team 6th 18th  Gary Paffett  HWA Racelab 4th 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  DS Techeetah 123 02  Envision Virgin Racing 109 03  Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team 102 04th  Mahindra Racing 102 05  BMW i Andretti Motorsport 82 06th  Venturi Formula E team 67

Item team Points 07th  Nissan e.dams 65 08th  Panasonic Jaguar Racing 62 09  HWA Racelab 22nd 10  NIO Formula E team 6th 11  Geox Dragon 2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gregor Messer: High tension in Formula E. 7th race of the season in Rome on Saturday live on ZDF. ZDF , April 11, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Formula E: Maximilian Günther replaces Felipe Nasr at the Rome E-Prix. e-Formel.de, March 26, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Tobias Bluhm: Jaguar separates from Nelson Piquet jr. - Lynn celebrates Formula E comeback. e-Formel.de, March 28, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 .