A race conducted from the first to the last lap and a well deserved victory. Antonio Felix da Costa conquered the success in Race 2 by resisting the pressure of Alexander Sims first and then of Stoffel Vandoorner without ever making a mistake.
The Portuguese, who was promoted to pole after the penalty inflicted on Nick Cassidy, got off to a perfect start unlike Andre Lotterer, who had a nightmare start that saw him relegate from fourth to eleventh position.
The DS Techeetah driver tried to take off, but behind him he always had the shadow of an Alexander Sims in great shape after some very positive qualifying.
The Mahindra driver, however, never had the chance to find the opening to try to undermine Costa and in the second half of the race he was mocked by a Stoffel Vandoorne who was good at putting the Brit into turn 6.
Having moved up to second position, the Belgian immediately closed the gap with da Costa, but even in this case the Portuguese was very skilled in never making any mistakes despite the constant pressure of the Mercedes driver.
Vandoorne also tried to play the Fanboost card, but the move was immediately countered by the DS Techeetah driver also voted for by the public.
In the final laps, then, a multiple accident that saw protagonists of Grassi, Vergne and Askew forced the race direction to display the double yellow flag between turn 6 and turn 7, preventing Vandoorne from trying the last assault.
Da Costa was thus able to cross the finish line undisturbed in first position celebrating a well-deserved success, while the Mercedes driver welcomed this placement as a victory considering the points recovered in the standings in Mortara.
Third step of the podium for a Mitch Evans who risked compromising his race in a risky attempt to overtake de Vries. The Jaguar driver, in braking at turn 6, went on dirt and then lost grip on a disconnection and put his car in the barrier.
Evans was very good at quickly recovering the ground and when shortly after de Vries made an identical mistake in an attempt to overtake Sims he managed to get behind the Mercedes of the world champion and then mock the Mahindra driver in the final and score valuable points. in a championship perspective.
Good comeback by Sam Bird who once again had to put a patch on a disastrous qualifying. The British Jaguar driver raced with a knife between his teeth, climbing from the sixteenth starting position to the final sixth, keeping behind him a Robin Frijns led badly from the pits in the management of the attack mode.
The Dutchman of Envision, in fact, was among the last to pass the area dedicated to the 8-minute power boost, but the energy advantage did not allow Frijns to hook up the train of the first forcing him to a race of suffering.
Robin Frijns, Envision Racing, Audi e-tron FE07
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To forget the Nyck de Vries race. The world champion, who is struggling a lot this season, has long occupied fourth place but threw everything to the wind in the final stages of the race when he tried to overtake Sims for third position by imitating the same maneuver he had tried shortly before. Evans.
De Vries braked on dirt, jumped on a disconnection and lost contact with the leading group and then fell prey to the Jaguar and Frijns drivers and finished the race in seventh place.
Eighth place without infamous and without praise for Jake Dennis, in a management crisis from the beginning, while the top 10 was completed with Andre Lotterer ninth in front of an applause Edoardo Mortara.
The Venturi team driver, forced not to take part in qualifying due to a technical problem on his car, raced to the attack Race 2 managing to take advantage of the final chaos and get the point at stake for the tenth place that could be heavy at the end. season.
At the end of the double round in New York the classification now sees Stoffel Vandoorne in first position with 155 points, while Mortara follows 11 points behind. Third place for Evans with 139 points ahead of Vergne who closed the US appointment with a double zero.
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