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Formula E Marrakesh E-Prix
Marrakesh E-Prix: Vergne leads DS Techeetah 1-2 in practice
Jean-Eric Vergne led a DS Techeetah 1-2 in practice for the Marrakesh E-Prix, closing out a red flag-interrupted FP2 0.129s ahead of Antonio Felix da Costa.
Jake Boxall-Legge
Edited: Jul 3, 2022, 7:11 AM
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Vergne had opened the session with an immediate lap in the 1m20s, FP2 going without the phase of rapid track evolution that FP1 had with much of the circuit having not been used for nearly two years. Times then quickly moved into the 1m20s and beyond.
Da Costa quickly brought the session into the 1m19s, before Jaguar's Mitch Evans claimed a lap nearly half a second clear of the Portuguese driver after five minutes.
But just as the drivers were closing in on the best lap from FP1, Alexander Sims hit the wall on the exit of Turn 7 and brought out a red flag as his Mahindra was extricated off the road.
Five minutes was added back onto the run-time to make up for the red flag pause and, once the track was declared clear, reigning champion Nyck de Vries immediately bagged a 1m17.921s to set the fastest time of the weekend at that stage.
The Techeetah pair then returned to the front, with da Costa grabbing a 1m17.610s and Vergne setting a devilish 1m17.666s to slot into second.
But the two were beaten by a good lap from Pascal Wehrlein, who punched in a 1m17.518s, before the Porsche driver fell to Evans’ sword as the Kiwi went just under a tenth faster.
Techeetah had one final ace card up its sleeve however, with Vergne putting together a late flyer to bag a 1m17.278s to cement top spot, with da Costa following just over a tenth behind.
Evans had to be satisfied with third, while NIO 333’s Oliver Turvey was a scant 0.001s away from the Jaguar driver to claim the fourth-best lap.
Oliver Turvey, NIO 333 Racing, NIO 333 001
Photo by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Images
Wehrlein was fifth from Nissan’s Sebastien Buemi, who gets a three-place grid penalty for the race in Morocco following contact with de Vries in FP1.
As Friday’s session reached its conclusion, Buemi and de Vries’ incident at the final corner produced a yellow flag – ensuring nobody had the opportunity to topple Edoardo Mortara from the top of the FP1 timing board.
Mortara’s benchmark from FP1 was a 1m18.670s, as his Venturi team-mate Lucas di Grassi went 0.3s behind and briefly into second before Vergne then split the two on the timing boards moments later.
Sergio Sette Camara placed seventh in the FP2 times, before bringing out a yellow flag at Turn 7 which stopped a late flying lap from Nick Cassidy, while Andretti’s Oliver Askew ended the session in eighth – ahead of Sam Bird and di Grassi.
Marrakech E-Prix FP2 results
Cla Driver Team Time Gap 1 Jean-Eric Vergne
Techeetah 1'17.278 2
Antonio Felix da Costa
Techeetah 1'17.407 0.129 3
Mitch Evans
Jaguar Racing 1'17.440 0.162 4
Oliver Turvey
NIO Formula E Team 1'17.441 0.163 5
Pascal Wehrlein
Porsche Team 1'17.518 0.240 6
Sébastien Buemi
DAMS 1'17.656 0.378 7
Sergio Sette Camara
Dragon Racing 1'17.749 0.471 8
Oliver Askew
Andretti Autosport 1'17.839 0.561 9
Sam Bird
Jaguar Racing 1'17.902 0.624 10
Lucas di Grassi
Venturi 1'17.905 0.627 11
Nyck de Vries
Mercedes 1'17.921 0.643 12
Oliver Rowland
Mahindra Racing 1'17.922 0.644 13
Antonio Giovinazzi
Dragon Racing 1'18.049 0.771 14
Dan Ticktum
NIO Formula E Team 1'18.061 0.783 15
Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes 1'18.091 0.813 16
Edoardo Mortara
Venturi 1'18.117 0.839 17
Jake Dennis
Andretti Autosport 1'18.154 0.876 18
Maximilian Gunther
DAMS 1'18.280 1.002 19
Robin Frijns
Virgin Racing 1'18.361 1.083 20
Andre Lotterer
Porsche Team 1'18.772 1.494 21
Nick Cassidy
Virgin Racing 1'19.148 1.870 22
Alexander Sims
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Marrakech E-Prix FP1 results
Cla Driver Team Time Gap 1 Edoardo Mortara
Venturi 1'18.670 2
Jean-Eric Vergne
Techeetah 1'18.836 0.166 3
Lucas di Grassi
Venturi 1'18.969 0.299 4
Andre Lotterer
Porsche Team 1'18.993 0.323 5
Oliver Rowland
Mahindra Racing 1'19.104 0.434 6
Antonio Felix da Costa
Techeetah 1'19.105 0.435 7
Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes 1'19.133 0.463 8
Robin Frijns
Virgin Racing 1'19.438 0.768 9
Sergio Sette Camara
Dragon Racing 1'19.453 0.783 10
Antonio Giovinazzi
Dragon Racing 1'19.513 0.843 11
Oliver Turvey
NIO Formula E Team 1'19.601 0.931 12
Dan Ticktum
NIO Formula E Team 1'19.631 0.961 13
Mitch Evans
Jaguar Racing 1'19.681 1.011 14
Alexander Sims
Mahindra Racing 1'19.957 1.287 15
Maximilian Gunther
DAMS 1'19.965 1.295 16
Nyck de Vries
Mercedes 1'20.089 1.419 17
Sébastien Buemi
DAMS 1'20.195 1.525 18
Pascal Wehrlein
Porsche Team 1'20.226 1.556 19
Nick Cassidy
Virgin Racing 1'20.655 1.985 20
Oliver Askew
Andretti Autosport 1'20.665 1.995 21
Sam Bird
Jaguar Racing 1'20.711 2.041 22
Jake Dennis
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