Mexico City ePrix 2017-04-01

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Event
Mexico City ePrix

Date
Sat 1st April 2017 UTC

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00:00:00 UTC

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24-04-23 17:00 (PST Los Angeles)
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24-04-23 19:00 (CST Chicago)
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24-04-23 20:00 (EST New York)
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24-04-24 01:00 (GMT London)
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24-04-24 02:00 (CET Paris)
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24-04-24 04:00 (GST Dubai)
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24-04-24 05:30 (IST Kolkata)
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24-04-24 09:00 (JST Tokyo)
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24-04-24 10:00 (AEDT Sydney)

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League
Formula E

Season
2016-2017

Round
4

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Location
Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez
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The 2017 Mexico City ePrix (formally the 2017 FIA Formula E Julius Baer Mexico City ePrix) was a Formula E motor race held on 1 April 2017 before a crowd of 36,000 people at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico. It was the fourth round of the 2016-17 Formula E season, and the second running of the event. The 45-lap race was won by Audi Sport ABT driver Lucas di Grassi after starting from 15th position. Jean-Éric Vergne finished second for the Techeetah team and Virgin driver Sam Bird came in third.

Oliver Turvey won the pole position after Daniel Abt was penalised for a tyre pressure infringement and maintained his advantage on the first lap. He came under pressure from José María López until he retired from the race with power issues, handing the lead to López. Di Grassi and Jérôme d'Ambrosio made early pit stops to switch into their second cars and di Grassi became the leader on lap 26 when the rest of the field made their stops. D'Ambrosio held off pressure from Vergne for second place until he was passed by the driver on the 43rd lap and di Grassi remained the leader for the rest of the race after conserving electrical energy to win. There were three lead changes among four different drivers and three safety car periods during the course of the race.

It was di Grassi's first victory of the season and the fifth of his career. The result meant Sébastien Buemi's advantage over di Grassi in the Drivers' Championship was reduced from 29 to five after finishing outside of the points-scoring positions but he earned one point for setting the race's fastest lap. Nicolas Prost and Vergne remained in third and fourth places while Bird moved ahead of Felix Rosenqvist to move into fifth. Audi Sport ABT reduced the Teams' Championship deficit to e.Dams-Renault to be 31 points behind, with Virgin moving from sixth to third with eight races left in the season.

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Result List

Result Description
1 11 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 45 56'27.535 15 25
2 25 France Jean-Éric Vergne Techeetah-Renault 45 +1.966 3 18
3 2 United Kingdom Sam Bird Virgin-Citröen 45 +7.480 5 153
4 20 New Zealand Mitch Evans Jaguar 45 +9.770 11 12
5 8 France Nicolas Prost e.dams-Renault 45 +9.956 13 10
6 37 Argentina José María López Virgin-Citröen 45 +10.631 2 8
7 66 Germany Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 45 +11.694 18 6
8 47 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Jaguar 45 +13.722 10 4
9 3 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. NextEV NIO 45 +14.156 16 2
10 33 Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Techeetah-Renault 45 +15.717 9 1
11 27 Netherlands Robin Frijns Andretti-BMW 45 +21.459 14
12 23 Germany Nick Heidfeld Mahindra 45 +27.232 4
13 9 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Renault 45 +1.01.365 7 12
14 7 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon-Penske 45 +1.09.646 19
15 4 France Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi 44 +1 Lap 17
16 19 Sweden Felix Rosenqvist Mahindra 43 +2 Laps 8
Ret 5 Germany Maro Engel Venturi 38 Power 12
Ret 28 Portugal António Félix da Costa Andretti-BMW 32 Gearbox 6
Ret 6 France Loïc Duval Dragon-Penske 25 Battery 20
Ret 88 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey NextEV NIO 12 Battery 1 31

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