The second race of the weekend at the Berlin circuit differed from the first in that traffic was organized in the opposite direction, ie counterclockwise. Therefore, the last turn of yesterday’s circle was the first, and today it played a key role.
Pole owner Edoardo Mortare failed to hold onto the lead – this was prevented by Nick de Vries who had a great start from third position and after a few moments on the inside section of the 1st corner, he broke brutally on to the first.
Mortara didn’t lag behind, half a second behind the leader’s Mercedes and he was in turn chased by Robin Fryance. However, the first overtake took place outside the leading group: Mitch Evans was ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne and moved up to 8th position. After that, the Frenchman gave way to two more opponents – maybe he had some problems with the car.
De Vries was the first to decide to use attack mode and temporarily lost the lead, having to leave the main trajectory, but soon regained the first position.
Mortara was still in second place, but Frijns fell back to 6th place and António Felix da Costa reached the top three, quickly activating Attack Mode and pushing Swiss driver Venturi from second position.
On lap 15, the leader managed to widen da Costa’s gap to almost a second and a half, but the scoundrel rode at about the same interval of Andre Lotterer, who was now in third position. But on lap 18, the German Porsche driver was overtaken by Stoffel Vandorn, a driver of the Mercedes works team. Lotterer was followed by Lucas di Grassi and Frijns, but unlike Andre they used the Attack Mode.
In the next lap Mortara recaptured second position with a power boost, but de Vries had a lead of almost two seconds.
After 22 laps the top ten looked like this: de Vries – Mortara – di Grassi – Fryayns – da Costa – Vandorn – Lotterer – Oliver Rowland – Evans – Vergne.
On lap 24, da Costa used the extra kilowatts of power the fans had voted for to pass Fryens. Following the Dutchman, Vandorn also overtook, who managed to break through da Costa’s resistance and even managed to take 4th place after a lap.
Meanwhile, Frijns continued to lose ground – he was overtaken by Oliver Rowland, a Nissan driver, and was already starting to overtake da Costa.
On the 30th lap, the top five stretched noticeably: Nick de Vries took the advantage to almost three seconds, Mortara lost two seconds to him, who had about the same lead over di Grassi. Vandorn drove respectfully away from the Brazilian and da Costa followed a second later.
On lap 32, Rowland overtook da Costa for 5th position – it looked like both DS Teecheetah drivers were having issues with speed as Vergne, who had fallen back to the bottom of the top ten, stayed there and lost more than five seconds from Lotterer, eighth drive.
Vandorn, in the championship lead, clearly had no intention of handing over the first line of the personal standings to anyone and tried again, as on Saturday, to climb the podium, so on lap 38 he was down ahead of Di Grassi and took 3rd place.
Some interesting developments also occurred slightly behind the top three: da Costa and Friance in turn overtook Rowland, but now Robin turned his attention to da Costa. In addition, his intentions were so serious that on the last lap there was contact between them at quite high speed on a straight line – Antonio caught the car barely a few centimeters from the guardrail. However, it was done: Frijns took fifth place from him.
Meanwhile, the race was over: Nick de Vries, the reigning Formula E champion, took the win, Edorado Mortara finished second, taking second in the individual standings, and Vandorn climbed to third on the podium.
As well as maintaining the championship lead, Stoffel increased the lead to 11 points, while Jean-Eric Vergne, who finished just 9th today, is now in third place.
The next, 9th round of the World Electric Car Racing Championship will take place on June 4 in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta.
Source: F1 News
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