How did the first victory of Robin Frijns’s Formula E career and the rest of the action from the Paris ePrix affect the Formula E Driver Power Rankings?
Through the first seven races of the 13-race 2018-2019 Formula E season, seven different drivers had earned one victory. In fact, these seven drivers represent seven of the sport’s 11 teams.
While the trend of a different team winning each race did not continue into the season’s eighth race, the Paris ePrix, at Circuit des Invalides, the trend of a different driver winning each race did.
Envision Virgin Racing’s Robin Frijns won the rain-soaked 32-lap race around the 14-turn, 1.20-mile (1.931-kilometer) Circuit des Invalides temporary street circuit in Paris, France to become the eighth different driver to win a race through the first eight races of the season, something that has never happened before in Formula E’s five-year history.
How did Frijns’s first victory of the 2018-2019 season, which was also the first victory of his Formula E career, affect the Formula E Driver Power Rankings? Here are the non-formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings following the Paris ePrix.
Non-formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings
Rank – Driver – Car, Team, Manufacturer – [Last Rank (Trend)]
1st – Robin Frijns – #4, Envision Virgin Racing, Spark-Audi – [3rd (+2)]
2nd – Andre Lotterer – #36, DS Techeetah, Spark-DS Automobiles – [2nd (0)]
3rd – Lucas di Grassi – #11, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, Spark-Audi – [4th (+1)]
4th – Antonio Felix da Costa – #28, BMW i Andretti Motorsport, Spark-BMW – [6th (+2)]
5th – Daniel Abt – #66, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler, Spark-Audi – [10th (+5)]
6th – Jean-Eric Vergne – #25, DS Techeetah, Spark-DS Automobiles – [8th (+2)]
7th – Jerome d’Ambrosio – #64, Mahindra Racing, Spark-Mahindra – [5th (-2)]
8th – Mitch Evans – #20, Panasonic Jaguar Racing, Spark-Jaguar – [1st (-7)]
9th – Sam Bird – #2, Envision Virgin Racing, Spark-Audi – [7th (-2)]
10th – Edoardo Mortara – #48, Venturi, Spark-Venturi – [9th (-1)]
11th – Pascal Wehrlein – #94, Mahindra Racing, Spark-Mahindra – [13th (+2)]
12th – Oliver Rowland – #22, Nissan e.dams, Spark-Nissan – [12th (0)]
13th – Sebastien Buemi – #23, Nissan e.dams, Spark-Nissan – [11th (-2)]
14th – Maximilian Gunther – #6, Geox Dragon Racing, Spark-Penske – [22nd (+8)]
15th – Felipe Massa – #19, Venturi, Spark-Venturi – [16th (+1)]
16th – Stoffel Vandoorne – #5, HWA Racelab, Spark-Venturi – [14th (-2)]
17th – Alexander Sims – #27, BMW i Andretti Motorsport, Spark-BMW – [15th (-2)]
18th – Gary Paffett – #17, HWA Racelab, Spark-Venturi – [19th (+1)]
19th – Oliver Turvey – #16, NIO, Spark-NIO – [17th (-2)]
20th – Alex Lynn – #3, Panasonic Jaguar Racing, Spark-Jaguar – [18th (-2)]
21st – Jose Maria Lopez – #7, Geox Dragon Racing, Spark-Penske – [21st (0)]
22nd – Tom Dillmann – #8, NIO, Spark-NIO – [20th (-2)]
Biggest Movers
Up: Maximilian Gunther (+8)
Down: Mitch Evans (-7)
Here are the formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings following the action from the Circuit des Invalides. To see how the formulated Formula E Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.