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Formula E Monaco E-Prix
Monaco E-Prix: Evans leads Jaguar 1-2 in practice
Jaguar Racing completed a Formula E free practice rout on the full Monaco Grand Prix circuit as Sam Bird and Mitch Evans traded places at the top of the times.
Matt Kew
Edited: May 8, 2021, 9:30 AM
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The teammates completed a 1-2 in both sessions, with Bird leading the way in the opening 45-minute run with a 1m32.22s effort to eclipse Evans by just three hundredths.
But the Kiwi got his own back in the later 30-minute outing by heading the leaderboard courtesy of a 1m31.118s benchmark set using the full 250kW power.
That put Monegasque resident Evans clear of Bird by a fine 0.185s as the Jaguar Racing duo were the last drivers to post competitive lap times.
Reigning champion Antonio Felix da Costa was a further 0.056s adrift aboard his DS Techeetah and Porsche driver Andre Lotterer ran to fifth in two largely incident-free sessions.
A sole red flag stoppage in first practice came courtesy of a failure for the new Dragon Penske Autosport car.
The Penske EV-5 machine makes its competitive debut in Monaco after delays forced the team to hold off the introduction in Rome and then Valencia - the first rounds to fall after the later homologation window came into play.
Sergio Sette Camara came to a halt at the first apex of Anthony Noghes and then failed to restart, which forced the session to be paused.
But the incident then continued when Venturi Racing driver Norman Nato rounded the blind corner and nosed into the rear of the stricken Dragon.
This meant Nato – who was denied a podium in both Rome and Valencia due to penalties – received a latest reprimand and will drop two places on the grid.
Nato again suffered a scare shortly after the chequered flag had been called for the second practice session.
Both he and fellow rookie and Envision Virgin Racing driver Nick Cassidy had to take avoiding action exiting Rascasse and were forced to correct massive slides.
However, the stewards decided to take no further action after minimal contact was made.
The new Nissan e.dams powertrain starts its debut event with the fifth fastest time courtesy of Oliver Rowland, as teammate and two-time Monaco E-Prix victor Sebastien Buemi was only 21st.
Points-leading team Mercedes had it times led by Nyck de Vries in eighth with Stoffel Vandoorne running to 15th.
FP1 results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 10 Sam Bird
Jaguar Racing 1'32.220 2 20
Mitch Evans
Jaguar Racing 1'32.253 0.033 3 4
Robin Frijns
Virgin Racing 1'32.360 0.140 4 13
Antonio Felix da Costa
Techeetah 1'32.576 0.356 5 99
Pascal Wehrlein
Porsche Team 1'32.626 0.406 6 17
Nyck de Vries
Mercedes 1'32.657 0.437 7 37
Nick Cassidy
Virgin Racing 1'32.686 0.466 8 11
Lucas di Grassi
Team Abt 1'32.792 0.572 9 36
Andre Lotterer
Porsche Team 1'32.794 0.574 10 94
Alex Lynn
Mahindra Racing 1'32.923 0.703 11 5
Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes 1'33.012 0.792 12 6
Nico Müller
Dragon Racing 1'33.042 0.822 13 25
Jean-Eric Vergne
Techeetah 1'33.054 0.834 14 33
René Rast
Team Abt 1'33.090 0.870 15 71
Norman Nato
Venturi 1'33.193 0.973 16 48
Edoardo Mortara
Venturi 1'33.263 1.043 17 28
Maximilian Gunther
Andretti Autosport 1'33.281 1.061 18 8
Oliver Turvey
NIO Formula E Team 1'33.468 1.248 19 22
Oliver Rowland
DAMS 1'33.533 1.313 20 29
Alexander Sims
Mahindra Racing 1'33.837 1.617 21 23
Sébastien Buemi
DAMS 1'33.865 1.645 22 88
Tom Blomqvist
NIO Formula E Team 1'33.915 1.695 23 27
Jake Dennis
Andretti Autosport 1'34.170 1.950 24 7
Sergio Sette Camara
Dragon Racing 1'38.671 6.451 View full results
FP2 results:
Cla # Driver Team Time Gap 1 20 Mitch Evans
Jaguar Racing 1'31.118 2 10
Sam Bird
Jaguar Racing 1'31.303 0.185 3 13
Antonio Felix da Costa
Techeetah 1'31.359 0.241 4 36
Andre Lotterer
Porsche Team 1'31.471 0.353 5 22
Oliver Rowland
DAMS 1'31.554 0.436 6 4
Robin Frijns
Virgin Racing 1'31.571 0.453 7 48
Edoardo Mortara
Venturi 1'31.584 0.466 8 17
Nyck de Vries
Mercedes 1'31.626 0.508 9 99
Pascal Wehrlein
Porsche Team 1'31.723 0.605 10 25
Jean-Eric Vergne
Techeetah 1'31.759 0.641 11 6
Nico Müller
Dragon Racing 1'31.947 0.829 12 8
Oliver Turvey
NIO Formula E Team 1'32.046 0.928 13 11
Lucas di Grassi
Team Abt 1'32.095 0.977 14 28
Maximilian Gunther
Andretti Autosport 1'32.105 0.987 15 5
Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes 1'32.163 1.045 16 94
Alex Lynn
Mahindra Racing 1'32.228 1.110 17 27
Jake Dennis
Andretti Autosport 1'32.403 1.285 18 33
René Rast
Team Abt 1'32.555 1.437 19 88
Tom Blomqvist
NIO Formula E Team 1'32.569 1.451 20 29
Alexander Sims
Mahindra Racing 1'32.830 1.712 21 23
Sébastien Buemi
DAMS 1'33.242 2.124 22 7
Sergio Sette Camara
Dragon Racing 1'33.679 2.561 23 37
Nick Cassidy
Virgin Racing 1'33.847 2.729 24 71
Norman Nato
Venturi 1'33.848 2.730 View full results
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