On an Asian Saturday afternoon that went down in history for the first E-Prix held in Indonesia, and more precisely in its capital Jakartais New Zealander Mitch Evans to enter the annals of Formula E for the first victory achieved in this corner of the world, with a success that has subverted the predictions of the eve of the ninth round of the world championship. A test that initially seemed to reward the DS Techeetah from Jean-Eric Vergne and Antonio Felix Da Costa; the two drivers of the Chinese company had in fact imposed themselves in qualifying by monopolizing the front row, with the French author of the 15th pole position career in this category: never anyone like himwith the former F1 driver who still boasts the distinction of being the only one, so far, to have won more than one world title in Formula E.
Even a few hours away from the finish line on pole, the 32-year-old seemed on the verge of winning, thanks to a brilliant start that left no way out for his Portuguese teammate and Evans himself, however determined to try an attack on the first corner on the number. 13, later failed. Also during the race – subsequently extended by one and a half minutes for the entrance to the Safety Car after Rowland’s retirement – Vergne seemed to keep his leadership steadily over Evans, very skilled at exploiting a long by Da Costa at the restart to move to second position.
On a very hostile circuit to overtaking, the E-Prix therefore focused on the strategies to be implemented with attack mode, with which the first cracks in DS Techeetah appeared. In this sense, it was Da Costa who had to deal with a not entirely efficient choice of the pit wall, who even lost the opportunity to maintain the third position on Edoardo Mortara. The Swiss, initially determined to repel the attacks of direct opponents with the extra power, even if he did not have the attack mode, then made the most of the advantage of the 25 kW more, ousting Da Costa from the virtual podium. The decisive episode of the E-Prix, however, occurred just over 5 minutes from the end: after recovering ground on Vergne, Evans completed the comeback on the Frenchman in the best possible way, overtaking him with a detached at turn 7, catching his rival by surprise and taking the first position, keeping it up to the checkered flag despite a decline in the final. In this way, after the domination in Rome, the New Zealander of the Jaguar won his third victory of the season, the fourth in his career after another success always in the capital in 2018-19. The race was also good Stoffel Vandoornewhich recovers from a disappointing 8th place on the grid to fifth positionthus maintaining the leadership of the world championship and giving Mercedes satisfaction after the retirement of De Vries, which took place in the final stages of the race.
Jakarta E-Prix (Round 9) | Order of arrival
POS. | PILOT | TEAM | TIME / GAP |
1 | Mitch Evans | Jaguar TCS | |
2 | Jean-Eric Vergne | DS Techeetah | +0.733 |
3 | Edward Mortara | ROKiT Venturi | +0.967 |
4 | Antonio Felix From the coast | DS Techeetah | +3.350 |
5 | Stoffel Vandoorne | Mercedes-EQ | +4.038 |
6 | Jake Dennis | Avalanche Andretti | +4.365 |
7 | Lucas Of Fat | ROKiT Venturi | +5.253 |
8 | Pascal Wehrlein | TAG Heuer Porsche | +8.191 |
9 | Sam Bird | Jaguar TCS | +13.348 |
10 | Sébastien Buemi | Nissan e.dams | +14.766 |
11 | André Lotterer | TAG Heuer Porsche | +16.089 |
12 | Oliver Turvey | NIO 333 | +20.922 |
13 | Oliver Askew | Avalanche Andretti | +23.020 |
14 | Maximilian Günther | Nissan e.dams | +25.184 |
15 | Alexander Sims | Mahindra | +29.520 |
16 | Nick Cassidy | Envision | +29.873 |
17 | Robin Frijns | Envision | +30.854 |
18 | Dan Ticktum | NIO 333 | +31.827 |
19 | Sergio Seven Camara | Dragon / Penske | +38.218 |
20 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Dragon / Penske | Withdrawn |
21 | Nyck De Vries | Mercedes-EQ | Withdrawn |
22 | Oliver Rowland | Mahindra | Withdrawn |
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