Marrakech: variety at the top 🎥
FIFTH WINNER OF THE SEASON António Félix da Costa from Team DS Techeetah was the fifth winner in the fifth race of the season in Morocco. Sébastien Buemi and Edoardo Mortara scored good points. The highlights of the fifth ABB FIA Formula E championship round in Marrakech. After setting the fastest time in Super Pole qualifying, António Félix da Costa gave the [...]
The highlights of the fifth ABB FIA Formula E championship round in Marrakech.
After setting the fastest time in Super Pole qualifying, António Félix da Costa set the pace from the start in his DS Techeetah. Only in the middle of the race did the Portuguese briefly give way to his rival Maximilian Günther in the BMW in order to save energy in his slipstream. Félix da Costa is already the ninth different winner of an E-Prix this season.
Sick to the podium
His teammate Jean-Eric Vergne put in an incredible performance. The Frenchman spent Friday in hospital. Not yet fully recovered on race day, he qualified in eleventh place and over the course of the 45-minute race plus one lap advanced to second position. It was only two corners before the chequered flag that Chile winner Günther secured second place with a great overtaking maneuver.
Da Costa now leads the drivers' standings ahead of Mitch Evans (Panasonic Jaguar Racing) and Alexander Sims (BMW i Andretti Motorsport). Mexico winner Evans was too late on his qualifying lap and had to line up at the back with no time. The New Zealander proved the speed of the electric predator with his race to catch up to 8th place.
Points for the Romands...
The two Swiss drivers Sébastien Buemi and Edoardo Mortara started the race in Morocco from the third row of the grid. Neither of them ever came within direct striking distance of the leading group.
With a gap of 2.5 tenths of a second to Vergne, Buemi still finished in fourth place, moving up two positions. A further 3.5 seconds later, Edoardo Mortara in the Venturi-Mercedes, who had started fifth, finished in P5.
... and zero number for the Bernese
The two Bernese drivers Nico Müller and Neel Jani, on the other hand, once again came away empty-handed. Due to a braking error that cost him a good three tenths in the final sector 3, Müller qualified in the Penske EV-4 from Geox Dragon Racing only for 16th place on the grid instead of eighth or ninth. A drive-through penalty (software problem at the start) threw him to the back of the field in the race.
Meanwhile, Jani struggled with the brakes on his Porsche 99X Electric. As a result, the man from Biel did not finish beyond a disappointing 18th place. His experienced teammate André Lotterer took third place on the grid and was in fourth place until shortly before the end, before the German-Belgian lost four positions.
Results Formula E Marrakech Formula E standings after 5 races
