Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird topped the first in-season test of the 2018/19 Formula E ꦏseason at Ad Diriyah in Saudi Arabia. 

The test followed the season-opening inaugural Ad Diriyah E-Prix, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:won by BMW’s Antonio Fe♏lix da Costa, and featured a diverse line-up including nine female drivers as part of the all-electric series⛄’ push to encourage female participation. 

Bird turned in a new unofficial track record aroun𝔍d the 1.5-mile, 21-tu𓄧rn street circuit, managing a 1m09.668s in Virgin’s Audi-powered Gen2 machinery during the afternoon session, having taken over from teammate and morning pacesetter Robin Frijns. 

Re𝔍igning champion Jean-Eric Vergne was the only other driver to dip below the 1m10 mark 🍃as he ended up 0.133s behind for Techeetah. 

The shared Nissan e.dams entry of Carmen Jordan and Oliver Rowland🔥 wound up third-quickest, with new recruit Rowland setting the fastest time i♐n the #22 car on a 1m10.264s, having spent the majority of the session with the  fastest time. 

Ex-McLaren Formula 1 driver Stoffel Vaꦇndoorne completed the most laps of the afternoon but brought out a late red flag as he stopped on track in his HWA after posting the fourth-best time, ahead of Jaguar’s Mitch Evans and Audi ro✅okie Nico Muller. 

Edoardo Mortara ended the day seventh for Venturi, having taken over from 2018/19 teammate Felipe Massa in the ꦗafternoon, while the #7 Dragon car shared by Jose Maria Lopez and Pippa Mann was eighth, ahead of Ad Diriyah podium finisher Jerome d’Ambrosio and Venturi test driver Simona de Silvestro, who rounded out the top 10 and endeဣd the test as the quickest female driver. 

Her laptime was slightly faster than the🎃 1m12.229s managed by Tatiana Calderon for Techeetah, while Jamie Chadwick set a best time of 1m13.042s driving for NIO in the afternoo𒐪n session. 

The day was disrupted by five red flag periods, as Amna Al Qubaisi damaged her Virgin car in a hit with the Turn 6 wall, forcing the Emirati driver to miss the afternoon running. The other two morning♏ red flags were caused by separate stoppages for ♍Dragon’s Max Gunther and Muller.

NIO’s Tom Dillmann crashed in the afternoon with just over an hour remaining, bringing an end to his and teammate Oliver Turvey’s r♒unning, before Vandoorne’s late problem.