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Formula E Hong Kong E-prix
Hong Kong E-Prix: Frijns quickest in rain-affected practice
Envision Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns sealed the fastest time in rain-affected practice for ABB FIA Formula E's Hong Kong E-Prix with a last-minute effort.
Tom Errington
Edited: Mar 10, 2019, 10:41 AM
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Frijns set a 1m09.221s effort after the checkered flag had flown to leapfrog Nissan e.dams's Oliver Rowland, who had topped the opening session with a 1m09.283s lap.
The second practice had looked set to produce slower times because of a downpour between the running, and only Frijns was able to beat Rowland's first session benchmark come the end of practice.
DS Techeetah's Andre Lotterer ended up third ahead of Edoardo Mortara, who had completed just five laps going into the second half of the session after he stopped on track moments after second practice began.
The Venturi driver eventually added further laps to knock Sam Bird into fifth after the Virgin driver made contact with the wall in the first session.
Jean-Eric Vergne was sixth after admitting on Saturday that he did not fully understand his DS Techeetah's handling.
NIO's Oliver Turvey climbed from the bottom rung of the timesheets to go eighth ahead of Gary Paffett.
The HWA driver had held the top spot heading into the final four minutes before he was shuffled down the order following his first session drivetrain problem.
Audi's Daniel Abt rounded out the top 10 ahead of BMW Andretti's Alexander Sims, teammate Lucas di Grassi and Venturi's Felipe Massa.
A flurry of late laps meant NIO's Tom Dillmann dropped from fourth to 14th ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne.
Championship leader Jerome d'Ambrosio featured in the lower end of the time sheets in both sessions and finished practice in 20th, with his Mahindra teammate Pascal Wehrlein in 17th.
Mitch Evans caused a yellow flag after a suspected driveshaft problem caused him to pull off track at the Turn 6 hairpin.
The Jaguar driver ended second practice in 21st some 5.476s up on Dragon Racing's Felipe Nasr who completed just three laps.
First practice results:
la # Driver Team Time Gap 1 22 
Oliver Rowland 
DAMS 1'09.283 2 36 
Andre Lotterer 
Techeetah 1'09.653 0.370 3 25 
Jean-Eric Vergne 
Techeetah 1'09.744 0.461 4 23 
Sébastien Buemi DAMS 1'09.893 0.610 5 66 
Daniel Abt 
Team Abt 1'09.956 0.673 6 4 
Robin Frijns 
Virgin Racing 1'09.957 0.674 7 7 
Jose Maria Lopez 
Dragon Racing 1'10.070 0.787 8 17 
Gary Paffett 
HWA AG 1'10.236 0.953 9 27 
Alexander Sims 
Andretti Autosport 1'10.382 1.099 10 48 
Edoardo Mortara 
Venturi 1'10.418 1.135 11 5 
Stoffel Vandoorne 
HWA AG 1'10.567 1.284 12 2 
Sam Bird 
Virgin Racing 1'10.724 1.441 13 8 
Tom Dillmann 
NIO Formula E Team 1'10.728 1.445 14 19 
Felipe Massa 
Venturi 1'10.864 1.581 15 20 
Mitch Evans 
Jaguar Racing 1'10.898 1.615 16 3 
Nelson Piquet Jr. Jaguar Racing 1'11.021 1.738 17 11 
Lucas di Grassi Team Abt 1'11.316 2.033 18 6 Felipe Nasr Dragon Racing 1'11.321 2.038 19 28 
Antonio Felix da Costa 
Andretti Autosport 1'11.380 2.097 20 94 
Pascal Wehrlein 
Mahindra Racing 1'11.396 2.113 21 64 
Jérôme d'Ambrosio 
Mahindra Racing 1'11.843 2.560 22 16 
Oliver Turvey 
NIO Formula E Team 1'12.305 3.022
Second practice results:
la # Driver Team Time Gap 1 4 
Robin Frijns Virgin Racing 1'09.221 2 22 Oliver Rowland 
DAMS 1'09.478 0.257 3 36 
Andre Lotterer Techeetah 1'09.499 0.278 4 48 Edoardo Mortara 
Venturi 1'09.523 0.302 5 23 
Sébastien Buemi 
DAMS 1'09.845 0.624 6 2 Sam Bird Virgin Racing 1'09.909 0.688 7 25 Jean-Eric Vergne 
Techeetah 1'10.066 0.845 8 16 Oliver Turvey 
NIO Formula E Team 1'10.078 0.857 9 17 Gary Paffett 
HWA AG 1'10.160 0.939 10 66 Daniel Abt Team Abt 1'10.178 0.957 11 27 Alexander Sims 
Andretti Autosport 1'10.224 1.003 12 11 Lucas di Grassi Team Abt 1'10.268 1.047 13 19 
Felipe Massa 
Venturi 1'10.353 1.132 14 8 Tom Dillmann NIO Formula E Team 1'10.490 1.269 15 5 
Stoffel Vandoorne HWA AG 1'10.599 1.378 16 28 
Antonio Felix da Costa 
Andretti Autosport 1'10.913 1.692 17 94 Pascal Wehrlein 
Mahindra Racing 1'11.130 1.909 18 7 
Jose Maria Lopez Dragon Racing 1'11.152 1.931 19 3 
Nelson Piquet Jr. Jaguar Racing 1'11.213 1.992 20 64 
Jérôme d'Ambrosio 
Mahindra Racing 1'11.240 2.019 21 20 
Mitch Evans 
Jaguar Racing 1'13.569 4.348 22 6 Felipe Nasr 
Dragon Racing 1'19.045 9.824
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