Buenos Aires ePrix 2017-02-18

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Sat 18th February 2017 (UTC)

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League
Formula E

Season
2016-2017

Round
3

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Location
Puerto Madero Street Circuit

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The 2017 Buenos Aires ePrix (formally the 2017 FIA Formula E Buenos Aires ePrix) was a Formula E motor race held on 18 February 2017 at the Puerto Madero Street Circuit in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina in front of a crowd of 21,000 people. It was the third round of the 2016–17 Formula E season and the third running of the event. The 37-lap race was won by e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi after starting from third position. Jean-Éric Vergne finished second for the Techeetah team and Audi Sport ABT driver Lucas di Grassi came in third.

Di Grassi won the pole position by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained his start line advantage on the first lap. The race was neutralised on the same lap because of Adam Carroll's stalled car and when the race restarted one lap later Vergne challenged di Grassi for the lead and passed him on lap three. Di Grassi lost second place to Buemi shortly afterwards and the Swiss driver moved into the lead after overtaking Vergne on the sixth lap. Buemi kept the lead after the mandatory pit stops to switch into his second car but despite having trouble with braking in a straight line Buemi remained in first place for the remainder of the event to secure the victory. There were four lead changes among four different drivers during the course of the race.

It was Buemi's third consecutive victory of the season, the ninth of his career, and became the first driver in Formula E history to win three races in a row. The result meant Buemi increased his Drivers' Championship advantage to 29 points over di Grassi. Buemi's teammate Nicolas Prost maintained third position, while Vergne's strong finish enabled him to move into fourth place. e.Dams-Renault extended their Teams' Championship advantage over Audi Sport ABT to be 51 points in front and a further 23 ahead of Mahindra with nine races left in the season.

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Result List

Result Description
1 9 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Renault 37 45'45.623 3 25
2 25 France Jean-Éric Vergne Techeetah-Renault 37 +2.996 2 18
3 11 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 37 +6.921 1 181
4 8 France Nicolas Prost e.dams-Renault 37 +8.065 6 12
5 3 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. NextEV NIO 37 +9.770 5 10
6 6 France Loïc Duval Dragon-Penske 37 +35.103 14 8
7 66 Germany Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 37 +35.801 16 6
8 7 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon-Penske 37 +36.335 9 4
9 88 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey NextEV NIO 37 +37.111 4 2
10 37 Argentina José María López Virgin-Citroën 37 +38.206 18 1
11 28 Portugal António Félix da Costa Andretti-BMW 37 +43.740 17
12 4 France Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi 37 +44.243 11
13 20 New Zealand Mitch Evans Jaguar 37 +44.918 7
14 27 Netherlands Robin Frijns Andretti-BMW 37 +49.683 13
15 23 Germany Nick Heidfeld Mahindra 37 +51.456 12
16 33 China Ma Qinghua Techeetah-Renault 36 +1 Lap 16
17 47 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Jaguar 36 +1 Lap 15
18 19 Sweden Felix Rosenqvist Mahindra 34 +3 Laps 8 12
Ret 5 Germany Maro Engel Venturi 26 Electrical 20
Ret 2 United Kingdom Sam Bird Virgin-Citroën 20 Accident 10

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