FE Ad Diriyah: da Costa fends off Vergne for first win of Gen2 era
Antonio Felix da Costa held off a late-charging Jean-Eric Vergne to record the first victory of Formula E’s new Gen2 e🎐ra at the 2018/19 seas🌸on-opening Ad Diriyah E-Prix.
Polesitter da Costa led throughout the opening stages and despite briefly losing the lead of the inaugural Formula E race in Saudi Arabia to reigning champion Verg𒊎ne, he regained the place when the Techeetah pair were handed drive-through penalties for technical infringements.
Antonio Felix da Costa held off a late-charging Jean-Eric Vergne to r🍬ecord the first victory of Formula E’s new Gen2 era at the 2ꦡ018/19 season-opening Ad Diriyah E-Prix.
Polesitter da Costa led throughout the🌼 opening stages and despitꦡe briefly losing the lead of the inaugural Formula E race in Saudi Arabia to reigning champion Vergne, he regained the place when the Techeetah pair were handed drive-through penalties for technical infringements.
Vergne, who had pulled off a st✱unning around-the-outside pass to snatch the lead from da Costa at Turn 1 earlier in the race, recoveredജ brilliantly to find himself on the tail of da Costa’s BMW Andretti in the closing minutes after a late Safety Car bunched the field up.
🌊But the Portuguese driver held firm to claim BMW’s maiden win in the all-electric series and his first since the 2015 Buenos Aires E-Prix, finishing just 0.462s clear of Vergne, as Jerome d’Ambrosio took third place on the podium for new his team Mahindra.
Behind the top three came Jaguar’s Mitch Evans, the second recovering Techeetah of Lotterer and Sebastien𒅌 Buemi. The Nissan e.dams drive♍r made a strong start to sit second in the early stages but later faded and dropped to sixth.
on January 12.168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Formula E🦹 Ad Diriyah E-Prix Race Results
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