BMW’s Jake Dennis resisted race-long pressure to convert pole position&nbꦚsp;into his first Formula E victory in Valencia.

Dennis stormed to his maiden pole position, beating Andre Lotterer by 0.8s as tr𝔉ack conditi💯ons went from damp to dry in qualifying.

The British driver managed the race from the front, ensuring there wasn’t a 𓆉repeat of yesterday’s 🎀drama where the majority of the field ran out of energy.

There had been concerns going into the E-P🦂rix that the race leader would be at a severe disadvantage due to the advantage the cars behind would have in terms of energy saving, benefiting from the slipstream effect.

Dennis dampeneꦦd such concerns to secure an impressive maiden victory in the series.

The BMW driver kept Mahindra’s Alex Lynn at bay for the first half of the E-Prix, before checking out at the front when Lynn dropped back after an 💫incident with Norman Nato. 

Natoܫ was handed a five-second time penalty for the aforemen⛎tioned incident, dropping him from second to fifth place.

Lotterer picked up second and his first points of the season, while Lynn recovered t🧔o finish third having been as low as ninth after his incidenღt with Nato.

Nato’s penalty also promoted Oli🐭ver Rowland into fourth as the lead Nissan e.Dams driver.

Rene Rast was one of the afternoon’s ༒star performers, recovering from 14th on the grid to finish an impressive sixth.

Rast moved up to second but picked up some debris in the closing laps which appea🎉red to impact the handling of his car.

Jean-Eric Vergne struggled to make muc꧒h progress as he finis༺hed in seventh, beating Oliver Turkey in eighth place. 

Edoardo Mortara and Lucas di Grassi rounded out the points-♏paying positions - making it a double points score for both Venturi and Audi.

It was a disappointing day for Mercedes and Jaguar - with the two teams at the top of both📖 championships.

Sam Bird and Mitch Evans could only recover to P14 and P15, while Nyck de Vries in the lea🦋d Mercedes was 16th.

Stoffel Vandoorne looked set to score a handful of points but an incident with Sebastien Buemi forced the Belgian into early retirement with front wing damage🔜.

In terms of the drivers' champion🍸ship, d♌e Vries remains on top, nine points clear of teammate Vandoorne.

Bird ജand Robin Frijns sit third and f🃏ourth on 43 points each.

Mercedes remains first in the teams' cham🦩pionship, 23 points ahead of Jaguar. 

Click heℱre to find the full results for the Valencia E-Prix (Race 2).