Before the exclusion, Lucas di
Grassi used fan power to take an emotional win in front of a large and
passionate crowd that was treated to a fabulous inaugural Mexico City ePrix. The
unique layout of the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez - part traditional race
track, part street circuit - made overtaking tricky, but not impossible. But
with an additional 100kJ of energy that di Grassi received through FanBoost, he
was able to slipstream Jerome D’Ambrosio and take the lead into the tight first
corner. For three laps di Grassi threw energy consumption to the wind and
concentrated on building up a lead instead, which he did with aplomb at almost
a second per lap. With D’Ambrosio having his mirrors full of Renault
e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi, di Grassi was able to establish a comfortable advantage
that he converted to not only his second win of the season, but the lead in the
drivers’ championship.
2016 Mexico City ePrix (Rd 5) - Race results
1. Lucas di Grassi, Abt Schaeffler
Audi Sport, (25)
1. Jerome D’Ambrosio, Dragon
Racing, +5.416s (23)
2. Sebastien Buemi, Renault
e.dams, +5.522s (15)
3. Nico Prost, Renault e.dams,
+30.953s (10)
4. Loic Duval, Dragon Racing,
+16.774s (12)
5. Robin Frijns, Andretti
Formula E, +33.893s (8)
6. Sam Bird, DS Virgin Racing,
+34.344s (6)
7. Daniel Abt, Abt Schaeffler
Audi Sport, +35.467s (4)
8. Nick Heidfeld, Mahindra
Racing, +41.789s (2)
9. Stephane Sarrazin, Venturi,
+42.707s (1)
10. Bruno Senna, Mahindra
Racing, +43.019s
11. Oliver Turvey, NEXTEV TCR,
+44.014s
12. Mike Conway, Venturi,
+44.206s
13. Nelson Piquet Jr, NEXTEV
TCR, +47.767s
14. Simona de Silvestro,
Andretti Formula E, +49.387s
15. Salvador Duran, Team
Aguri, +1:08.498s
16. Jean-Eric Vergne, DS
Virgin Racing, +1 lap
17. Antonio Felix da Costa,
Team Aguri, DNF