Wehrlein takes Porsche's first Formula E victory in Mexico City

Porsche scored its first-ever Formula E victory as Pascal Wehrlein finished ahead of teammate Andre Lotterer in a 1-2 finish at Mexico City.
Wehrlein takes Porsche's first Formula E victory in Mexico City

Starting from pole position, Wehrlein maintained the lead ✱in🍎to Turn 1 ahead of Venturi's Edoardo Mortara.

Initially, it♛ loo🐼ked as if Porsche was struggling for race pace as Wehrlein lost the lead to Mortara through the first attack zone phases.

The two Porsches were then demoted by Jean-Eric Vergn🐲e as both Wehrlein and Lotterer struggled for rac🌟e pace.

The second half of the E-Prix was a🍃 different story with Porsche saving more energy than its rivals, allowing both of its drivers to overtake Vergne and then Mortara, who had built up a two-second lead at the front.

As the laps ticked down, Lotterer remained by his teammate with more energy available, but the experienced German didn't risk an overtake to ensure Porscဣhe took its first Formula E victory.

It's redemption for Wehrlein after he🅺 was overtaken by Lucas di Grassi on the run to the finish line a couple𝄹 of years ago.

The end of the race proved ⛎to be chaotic given the sheer pace of the Porsche duo.

Wehrlein crossed t🌊he start-finish line with just one second to go meaning there was an additional lap of the race.

This caused havoc further down the ไfield as the Jaguars particularly did🐻n't conserve enough energy and dropped out of the points.

The ꦜPorsche pairing was joined by Vergne on the podium, who fought back with tea⭕mmate Antonio Felix da Costa to secure a 3-4 for Techeetah. 

Mortara could only manage fifth in the 𒁃end ahead of Mercedes' Nyck de Vries and Robin Frijns, who was running in third until the closing laps.

Venturi's Lucas di Grassi had incidents with Ma🃏ximilian Guenther and Nick Cassidy on his way to eighth.

Sebastien Buemi 🐠and Guenther rounded out the points for Nissan.

In t♛erms of the champ⛄ionship, Mortara leads de Vries by six points after three rounds.

Click🍃 here for the full Formula E race results from the Mexico City E-Prix

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