Formula E: 5 different winners for 5 different teams in first 5 races of 2018-2019
By Asher Fair
In the first five races of the 2018-2019 Formula E season, five different drivers representing five different teams have been victorious.
In terms of parity in not only motorsports but in all of sports, Formula E is on another level, and the start of the 2018-2019 season illustrates this perfectly.
Through the first five races of the 13-race season, five of the sport’s 22 drivers have been victorious. While this in itself illustrates parity, what adds to this level of parity is the fact that these five drivers represent five of the sport’s 11 teams.
BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Antonio Felix da Costa opened up the season by winning the Ad Diriyah ePrix before Mahindra Racing’s Jerome d’Ambrosio won the season’s second race, the Marrakesh ePrix.
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Envision Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird won the season’s third race, the Santiago ePrix, before Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Lucas di Grassi won the season’s fourth race, the Mexico City ePrix.
Bird was originally ruled the winner of the season’s fifth race, the Hong Kong ePrix, but he was issued a five-race time penalty after it ended as a result of the fact that contact between he and DS Techeetah’s Andre Lotterer resulted in the right rear tire of Lotterer’s car going flat with under two seconds remaining on the race’s 45-minute timer. At this point, Lotterer was leading the race with Bird behind him in second place.
Bird went on to take the lead from Lotterer, who was relegated to a 14th place finish, and lead the race’s final two laps, but Venturi’s Edoardo Mortara, who originally finished the Hong Kong ePrix in second behind Bird, was declared the official race winner when this penalty was issued to Bird, who dropped to sixth as a result of it.
In this day an age, it is rare that five different drivers all win one race in any five-race span in any racing series, much less to open up a season. The fact that these five different drivers represent five different teams makes this trend all the more incredible.
Five different drivers did win one race in the first five races of the inaugural Formula E season, the 2014-2015 season, but two of them drove for the same team. Six different drivers representing five different teams won one race in the first six races of that season, further illustrating the parity that has existed and still exists in the sport.
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Will this streak of different winners driving for different teams continue in the sixth race of the 2018-2019 Formula E season? If so, for how long will it continue after that? The sixth race of the season, the Sanya ePrix, is scheduled to take place at Sanya Street Circuit in Sanya, China on Saturday, March 23, so be sure not to miss it.