Evans dominates for Mexico City E-Prix victory
Mitch Evans has produced one of the most domina🐲nt displays in Formula E to claim victory at the Mexico City E-Prix for Panasonic Jaguar Racing as Sam Bir😼d crashed out from second place in the closing stages.
The New Zealander stormed into the lead from second place on the grid by barging by pole-sitter Andre Lotterer going into the first corner and ra♏rely looked troubled as he comfortably held a gap over the chasin🤪g pack throughout the race.
Mitch Evans has produced one of the most dominant displays in Formu📖la E to claim victory at the Mexico City E-Prix for Panasonic Jaguar Racing as Sam Bird crashed out from second place in the closing st♐ages.
The New Zealander stormed into the lead from second place on the grid by barging by pole-sitter Andre Lotterer going into the first corner and rarely looked troubled as he comfortably held a gap over thꦬe chasing pack throughout the race.
Despite a race of 🥂high attrition and one early safety car period caused by a crash for Nico Muller, Evans kept his cool at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez to take an impressive win by o꧅ver four seconds from Antonio Felix da Costa.
The win hands Evans the Formula E world championship lead by a si🎃ngle point from Alexander Sims൲.
Da Costa profited by applying pressure on Sam Bird in the closing stages which forced the British driver into a mist♈ake as 🐭he crashed at Turn 3. The Portuguese driver duly took up second place having produced a stunning overtake on Sebastien Buemi earlier in his late-race charge.
Buemi held on for third place to score his first points of the season for Nissan e.dams ahead of⛄ defending Formula E ch✅ampion Jean-Eric Vergne in fourth place for DS Techeetah.
Sims produced a strong recovery drive as he bolted from 18th place ജon thꦓe grid to finish in fifth place for BMW I Andretti Motorsport.
Stoffel ജVandoorne crashed out battling Sims for fifth place on the penultimate lap to wreck his strong race for Mercedes and he drops from the championship lead to fourth in the standings.
The heavy rate of attrition also saw Lotterer suffer damage on the opening lap which sent the Porsche driver backwards through the pack before further damage saw the German shown the black and oranꦇge technical flag on Lap 12 that effectively took him out of ꦗthe race.
Nyck de Vries crashed out on Lap 19 while battling in the front-running group, collecting Virgin Racing’s Robin Fr🅺ijns in the process, which sent the Dutch driver out of the points.
The brutal race at the front allowed Lucas di Grassi to take sixth place for Audi ✨Sport🌠 ABT Schaeffler having seen off Oliver Rowland in the Nissan.
Edoardo Mortara (ROKi𒈔T Venturi Racing), James Calado (Panasonic Jaguar Racing) and Pascal Wehrlein (♐Mahindra Racing) completed the points places.
Formula E he🐬ads to Morocco in two weeks for the fifth round of the 2019-2020 season.
