Monaco E-Prix: Cassidy wins from ninth to grab points lead

The Kiwi had started ninth after missing out on the qualifying duels but stormed to the front of the pack just after the halfway point of the 29-lap race. 

The race-winning move came into Sainte Devote on lap 18 as he overtook Mitch Evans, the Jaguar driver having jumped Cassidy at the same spot two laps earlier. 

The race essentially became a five-lap shootout as the safety car was deployed after Maximilian Gunther’s Maserati MSG came to a stop heading into Massenet. 

The German suffered damage on the run-up Beau Rivage, having tried to overtake Dan Ticktum’s NIO 333 machine which had a damaged front wing. 

With energy saved behind the safety car and no added laps, the remaining tours were flat-out with Evans unable to find a way back past. 

He was denied the chance of a last-lap overtake as a collision between Evans’ team-mate Sam Bird and Nico Muller left the Abt driver in the barrier at Sainte Devote. 

The stranded car meant a second safety car as the race finished under caution, with Cassidy following on from his win in Berlin last month with his first success in Monte Carlo. 

Jake Dennis completed the podium for Andretti Autosport having challenged Evans into the Nouvelle Chicane prior to the first safety car. 

Sacha Fenestraz took fourth after shadowing the leading trio for the second half of the race, the Nissan driver having been stripped of pole for exceeding the allowed energy output. 

McLaren’s Jake Hughes, who had inherited pole and led early on, held onto fifth while Ticktum took sixth despite the damage to his front wing. 

Jean-Eric Vergne impressively finished seventh after he and DS Penske team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne started on the back row due to a qualifying infringement, with the reigning Formula E champion finishing ninth. 

Pascal Wehrlein entered the race with a four-point lead over Cassidy in the standings, but struggled to break into the points at any stage in the race and the Porsche driver eventually finished 11th. 

His Porsche team-mate Antonio Felix da Costa also failed to score, finishing 16^th after stopping to replace a punctured tyre. 

Formula E Monaco E-Prix - race results

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Gap
1	37	Nick Cassidy	Envision Racing
2	9	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	0.390
3	27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Autosport	1.017
4	23	Sacha Fenestraz	Nissan e.dams	2.148
5	5	Jake Hughes	McLaren	2.788
6	33	Dan Ticktum	NIO Formula E Team	3.368
7	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	DS Penske	4.374
8	16	Sébastien Buemi	Envision Racing	4.783
9	1	Stoffel Vandoorne	DS Penske	5.394
10	10	Sam Bird	Jaguar Racing	6.469
11	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Team	6.705
12	48	Edoardo Mortara	Maserati Racing	7.624
13	11	Lucas di Grassi	Mahindra Racing	8.576
14	4	Robin Frijns	Team Abt	9.620
15	3	Sergio Sette Camara	NIO Formula E Team	10.684
16	13	Antonio Felix da Costa	Porsche Team	11.141
17	58	René Rast	McLaren	12.295
18	17	Norman Nato	Nissan e.dams	13.423
	51	Nico Müller	Team Abt	2 Laps
	7	Maximilian Gunther	Maserati Racing	8 Laps
	8	Oliver Rowland	Mahindra Racing	11 Laps
	36	Andre Lotterer	Andretti Autosport	28 Laps
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