Formula E: Lucas di Grassi wins 2019 Berlin ePrix
By Asher Fair
Lucas di Grassi earned his second victory of the 2018-2019 Formula E season by winning the season’s 10th race, the Berlin ePrix, at Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit.
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Lucas di Grassi earned his second victory of the 2018-2019 Formula E season in the 13-race season’s 10th race, the Berlin ePrix, at Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit.
Di Grassi earned his first victory of the season in the season’s fourth race, the Mexican City ePrix, at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. By winning the Berlin ePrix, he became just the second driver to win two races this season.
Di Grassi started the 37-lap race around the 10-turn, 1.398-mile (2.250-kilometer) Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit temporary street circuit in Berlin, Germany in third place in his #11 Spark-Audi, and he won it by 1.856 seconds over Nissan e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi, who started from the pole position, in second in his #23 Spark-Nissan.
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DS Techeetah’s Jean-Eric Vergne, BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Antonio Felix da Costa and HWA Racelab’s Stoffel Vandoorne rounded out the top five by finishing in third, fourth and fifth place in their #25 Spark-DS Automobiles, #28 Spark-BMW and #5 Spark-Venturi, respectively.
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Daniel Abt, BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Alexander Sims, Nissan e.dams’ Oliver Rowland, Envision Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird and Mahindra Racing’s Pascal Wehrlein rounded out the top 10 by finishing in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #66 Spark-Audi, #27 Spark-BMW, #22 Spark-Nissan, #2 Spark-Audi and #94 Spark-Mahindra, respectively.
The race featured only one lead change among two drivers. After Buemi led the race’s first five laps, di Grassi took the lead and never looked back en route to leading the final 32 laps. Of the 22 drivers who started the race, 20 finished it, and of these 20 drivers, all 20 finished the race.
Here are the full race results of the 2019 Berlin ePrix at Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit.
Race Results
1st – Lucas di Grassi
2nd – Sebastien Buemi
3rd – Jean-Eric Vergne
4th – Antonio Felix da Costa
5th – Stoffel Vandoorne
6th – Daniel Abt
7th – Alexander Sims
8th – Oliver Rowland
9th – Sam Bird
10th – Pascal Wehrlein
11th – Edoardo Mortara
12th – Mitch Evans
13th – Robin Frijns
14th – Maximilian Gunther
15th – Felipe Massa
16th – Gary Paffett
17th – Jerome d’Ambrosio
18th – Oliver Turvey
19th – Tom Dillmann
20th – Jose Maria Lopez
21st – Andre Lotterer
22nd – Alex Lynn
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The next race on the 2018-2019 Formula E schedule is the Bern ePrix, which is the 11th of 13 races on this season’s schedule. This race is scheduled to take place on Saturday, June 22, and it is set to take place at Bern Street Circuit in Bern, Switzerland. Be sure not to miss it.