Punta del Este ePrix 2014-12-13

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Punta del Este ePrix

Date
Sat 13th December 2014 (UTC)

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League
Formula E

Season
2014-2015

Round
3

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Location
Punta del Este Street Circuit

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Description

The 2014 Punta del Este ePrix, formally the 2014 FIA Formula E Julius Baer Punta del Este ePrix is a Formula E motor race held on 13 December 2014 at the Punta del Este Street Circuit in Punta del Este, Uruguay. It was the third championship race of the single-seater, electrically powered racing car series' inaugural season, and the first in America.

Jean-Eric Vergne, Salvador Duran and Antonio Garcia were brought in to replace Franck Montagny, Katherine Legge and Ho-Pin Tung respectively. Vergne, Durán and Nick Heidfeld were voted for to receive the FanBoost.

Jean-Eric Vergne started on pole position. Behind him were Nelson Piquet, Jr., Nicolas Prost, and Sebastian Buemi. Piquet immediately overtook Vergne and Buemi overtook Prost, while the whole field safely squeezed through the first chicane. Nick Heidfeld used his FanBoost and went up to fifth position. On the fourth lap, Sam Bird went over a kerb in the first corner and, unable to steer, hit the wall. This brought out the safety car.

Green flags were waved on the sixth lap, but the race was soon neutralized again when Da Costa had to retire on track. After that, Vergne managed to pass Piquet for the lead. Buemi tried to pass him as well, but locked up his front wheels. Both drivers had to use the run-off area, but kept their positions.

On the sixteenth lap, Piquet had fallen back behind both e.dams drivers, and Vergne made his pit stop. Meanwhile, Stephane Sarrazin's suspension failed when he hit a kerb and he crashed out. This brought out a third safety car. Bruno Senna had hit the wall in the same incident, but managed to switch cars at the same time as his rivals, without losing much time.

On the twentieth lap, Heidfeld was leading the race, but received a drive-through penalty for exceeding the maximum power usage. Nicolas Prost was then penalized in the same manner. This left the top three as Buemi, Vergne, Piquet. A fourth safety car was called on lap 27 when Matthew Brabham crashed exactly like Sarrazin did earlier.

With two laps left to race, Vergne used his FanBoost as soon as the safety car pulled off, but did not manage to take the lead. Buemi, however, cut the chicane and it was debated whether he should relinquish his position. Before any action was carried out, however, Vergne ran out of power and retired. He did score three points for his pole position. Buemi took the victory with Piquet second and Di Grassi third. Further back, Heidfeld used his FanBoost and managed to take tenth position, and with that a championship point, by beating Antonio Garcia to the line by just three hundreds of a second.

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Result List

Result Description
1 27 France Jean-Éric Vergne Andretti 1:15.408
2 99 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. China Racing 1:15.530 +0.122
3 8 France Nicolas Prost e.dams-Renault 1:15.722 +0.314
4 9 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Renault 1:15.842 +0.434
5 3 Spain Jaime Alguersuari Virgin Racing 1:16.053 +0.645
6 11 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 1:16.108 +0.700
7 10 Italy Jarno Trulli Trulli 1:16.144 +0.736
8 21 Brazil Bruno Senna Mahindra Racing 1:16.211 +0.803
9 23 Germany Nick Heidfeld Venturi 1:16.225 +0.817
10 66 Germany Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 1:16.374 +0.966
11 5 India Karun Chandhok Mahindra Racing 1:16.416 +1.008
12 6 Spain Oriol Servia Dragon Racing 1:16.811 +1.403
13 55 Portugal António Félix da Costa Amlin Aguri 1:16.865 +1.457
14 30 France Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi 1:17.025 +1.617
15 88 Spain Antonio García China Racing 1:17.653 +2.245
16 77 Mexico Salvador Duran Amlin Aguri 1:17.810 +2.402
17 18 Italy Michela Cerruti Trulli 1:20.206 +4.798
18 2 United Kingdom Sam Bird Virgin Racing no time
19 7 Belgium Jerome d'Ambrosio Dragon Racing no time
20 28 Australia Matthew Brabham Andretti no time

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