Mexico City E-Prix: Da Costa leads Massa in practice

Da Costa had initially taken the benchmark time with a lap of 59.461s just over 10 minutes into the second session before Dragon's Jose Maria Lopez moved ahead.

The BMW driver then responded with what stood as the best time across both practice sessions, completing a lap in 58.963s.

Venturi's Felipe Massa, who has endured a difficult start to life in FE, just missed out on the top spot late in the session.

The former Formula 1 driver's lap of 59.138s left him 0.175s adrift of Da Costa.

Nissan e.dams driver Sebastien Buemi was third, ahead of Mahindra's Jerome D'Ambrosio.

Sam Bird had an early off at Turn 1, a common theme across both sessions, but the Envision Virgin Racing man ended practice in fifth ahead of Lopez.

Nelson Piquet had been as high as second place for Jaguar midway through the session, but late improvements moved him down to eighth behind Oliver Rowland and ahead of Lucas di Grassi.

First-practice pace-setter Daniel Abt set a time of 59.590s for 10th, which was two tenths of a second slower than his opening session benchmark.

Abt's 59.319s lap in the first practice would have been good enough for fourth in the second session, an impressive feat considering lap improvements were encouraged by the new-for-2018/19 Jaguar I-Pace Trophy cars cleaning the track ahead of the final practice.

Reigning FE champion Jean-Eric Vergne was 12th in the last practice session and described his car as "undriveable" over the radio as he finished ahead of HWA's Stoffel Vandoorne and Virgin's Robin Frijns.

FE debutant Felipe Nasr was 19th, behind DS Techeetah driver Andre Lotterer.

NIO's Oliver Turvey lost precious track time after colliding with the inside of the chicane that follows the stadium section, but returned to take 17th.

Free practice 1

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	66	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	59.319
2	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	59.397	0.078
3	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti Autosport	59.439	0.120
4	23	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	59.452	0.133
5	16	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	59.486	0.167
6	11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	59.613	0.294
7	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA AG	59.687	0.368
8	28	Antonio Felix da Costa	Andretti Autosport	59.710	0.391
9	2	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	59.731	0.412
10	7	Jose Maria Lopez	Dragon Racing	59.783	0.464
11	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	59.919	0.600
12	6	Felipe Nasr	Dragon Racing	59.983	0.664
13	22	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	1'00.001	0.682
14	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	1'00.064	0.745
15	3	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Jaguar Racing	1'00.101	0.782
16	36	Andre Lotterer	Techeetah	1'00.111	0.792
17	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E Team	1'00.115	0.796
18	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	1'00.156	0.837
19	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	1'00.311	0.992
20	17	Gary Paffett	HWA AG	1'00.516	1.197
21	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	1'00.572	1.253
22	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	1'00.613	1.294

Free practice 2

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	28	Antonio Felix da Costa	Andretti Autosport	58.963
2	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	59.138	0.175
3	23	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	59.248	0.285
4	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	59.323	0.360
5	2	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	59.384	0.421
6	7	Jose Maria Lopez	Dragon Racing	59.396	0.433
7	22	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	59.456	0.493
8	3	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Jaguar Racing	59.474	0.511
9	11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	59.506	0.543
10	66	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	59.590	0.627
11	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	59.595	0.632
12	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	59.600	0.637
13	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA AG	59.687	0.724
14	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	59.742	0.779
15	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E Team	59.820	0.857
16	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	59.876	0.913
17	16	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	59.911	0.948
18	36	Andre Lotterer	Techeetah	59.923	0.960
19	6	Felipe Nasr	Dragon Racing	1'00.155	1.192
20	17	Gary Paffett	HWA AG	1'00.282	1.319
21	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti Autosport	1'00.355	1.392
22	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	1'00.414	1.451