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New York ePrix Race 2


Date
Sun 16th July 2017 (UTC)

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00:00:00 UTC

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24-11-24 16:00 (PST Los Angeles)
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League
Formula E

Season
2016-2017

Round
10

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Brooklyn Street Circuit

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The 2017 New York City ePrix (formally the 2017 FIA Formula E Qualcomm New York City ePrix) were a pair of Formula E motor races held on July 15 and 16, 2017 at the Brooklyn Street Circuit in Red Hook, Brooklyn before a two-day crowd of 20,000 people. There were the ninth and tenth races of the 2016–17 Formula E season and the inaugural running of the event. The first race, contested over 43 laps on 15 July, was won by Virgin driver Sam Bird after starting from fourth place. Jean-Éric Vergne finished second for Techeetah, and his teammate Stéphane Sarrazin came in third. The longer 49-lap race held the following day was won by Bird from a pole position start. Mahindra teammates Felix Rosenqvist and Nick Heidfeld completed the final two places on the podium.

Alex Lynn started from the pole position for the first race by recording the fastest lap in qualifying, but lost the lead to Daniel Abt at the start. Abt elected to conserve electrical energy, meaning he could not establish a healthy advantage at the front of the field and later struggled with his brakes, leading to his team to request that he focus on restoring electrical energy. After twice not being able to pass him two laps previously, Bird overtook Abt for first place on lap 16. Bird maintained the lead after the mandatory switch into his second car, until a safety car was necessitated for the Heidfeld's stricken car. At the lap 41-restart, Bird kept the lead and fended off an overtaking manoeuvre by Vergne on the final lap to win the race. There were two lead changes among two different drivers during the course of the event.

Bird carried over his strong pace from the previous day and secured the pole position for the second race, but lost the lead to Rosenqvist heading into the first turn. However, he was able to remain close behind Rosenqvist in the early stages of the race, catching the latter off guard following a restart, and passed him to retake the lead on the 11th lap. Lynn stopped his car on track nine laps later, prompting a full course yellow flag, and several drivers made pit stops to switch into their second cars. Bird chose to remain on track for one additional lap, and emerged back in first position with extra electrical energy. Bird opened up a healthy advantage over the rest of the field, crossing the start/finish line after 49 laps to win the event. There was one lead change among two different drivers during the course of the race.

The victories were Bird's fourth and fifth of his career and became the first driver to win both races of a double header weekend since Nico Prost at the 2016 London ePrix. The results of the races meant Lucas di Grassi narrowed the advantage of Drivers' Championship leader Sébastien Buemi (who was absent because of a World Endurance Championship commitment) to ten points. Rosenqvist maintained third position while Bird's two victories enabled him to move from seventh to fourth and Prost fell to fifth. e.Dams-Renault maintained their Teams' Championship lead with 229 points and their advantage over Audi Sport ABT had increased slightly by seven points. Mahindra were still in third place and Virgin consolidated fourth with two races left in the season.

Practice and qualifying
One 45-minute practice session on Sunday morning was held before the early afternoon race. Bird recorded the fastest lap time of the third practice session, which took place in dry and warm weather conditions, at one minute and 2.209 seconds, almost two-tenths of a second ahead of Vergne in second and Engel was third. Turvey was fourth-fastest; Piquet was fifth and Dillmann sixth. Lynn was seventh-fastest, di Grassi eighth, d'Ambrosio ninth and Heidfeld rounded out the top ten ahead of second qualifying. Dillmann broke his front-left suspension following an impact with the barrier leaving the turn six hairpin. He could not drive back to pit lane, and stopped his car at the next corner, necessitating a red flag. Di Grassi carried excessive speed driving into the turn one hairpin, and steered in the opposite direction to continue driving. The session ended early when Frijns lost control of his car's rear-end, and hit the turn ten wall, littering the circuit with debris. Frijns got out of his vehicle but limped slightly, possibly caused by hitting his leg on his car's monocoque cell.

Sunday's qualifying session was held in the morning rather than starting at the traditional time of the beginning of the afternoon. Qualifying took place in dry and warm weather conditions. In the first group of five runners, Bird paced the session, ahead of Frijns. Prost and Piquet were third and fourth due to both drivers losing time through errors. Dvual had trouble selecting second gear, and ran deep into the first turn. He consequently finished as the first group's slowest competitor. Rosenqvist set a lap that immediately placed him the fastest driver in the second group, and finished in front of Turvey and Abt. D'Ambrosio and Félix da Costa were the second group's slowest participants. In the third group, Gasly set the fastest overall timed lap of any driver in the group stages at one minute and 2.080 seconds, and was one-tenth of a second faster than Vergne in second place. Di Grassi impacted the turn three exit barrier lightly en route to finishing third-fastest. Sarrazin and Evans finished the third group as its slowest competitors. In the fourth group, Heidfeld set a last minute lap time and his effort made him the fastest driver, ahead of Engel. Dillmann was third-fastest. After changing three car components, Lynn struggled with brake temperatures and could only muster fourth. Carroll was the fourth group's slowest driver following contact with the turn five exit barrier. At the end of group qualifying, the lap times set by Gasly, Rosenqvist, Vergne, Bird and Heidfeld were fast enough to enable them progression into super pole. Bird clinched pole position with a time of one minute and 2.285 seconds. He was joined on the grid's front row by Rosenqvist who recorded a lap 0.037 seconds off Bird's pace. Vergne locked his tires at the hairpin, which disrupted his rhythm through the following corners, but recovered enough time to qualify in third. Gasly went wide at the turn one hairpin, restricting him to fourth. Heidfeld's attempt was untidy, and could only muster fifth place. After qualifying, Frijns was demoted ten places on the starting grid because he changed his gearbox following his practice accident, and Piquet did the same after changing his engine.

Race

Felix Rosenqvist (pictured in 2016) started on the front row of the grid and led the first ten laps of the second race.
The second race started at 13:00 local time. Weather conditions at the start of the race were dry and sunny with an air temperature between 83.5 to 85.1 °F (28.6 to 29.5 °C) and a track temperature ranging from 83.03 to 84.02 °F (28.35 to 28.90 °C). Six more laps were completed by the drivers in the event, making battery management the core concern of all participants. For the second consecutive day, it was not the pole sitter who got away in the lead as Rosenqvist accelerated faster than Bird off the line and was ahead of him driving into the turn one hairpin. Gasly fell to fifth behind Heidfeld. Just as in the first race, several drivers made contact in the first turn. Abt's rear wheel guard was damaged from contact with teammate di Grassi and Dillmann. Engel ploughed into the rear-end of Vergne in the first corner, and Engel was shown a black flag with an orange circle, requiring him to enter the pit lane for repairs. Abt slowed halfway through the first lap, stopping in the centre of the track to perform a full reset, and fell to the rear of the field. Prost made the best getaway in the field, gaining three positions by the end of the first lap, while Abt's problems meant he lost 12 places over the same distance.

At the end of the first lap Rosenqvist led from Bird, Vergne, Heidfeld, Gasly, Engel, Turvey, Dillmann, di Grassi, Evans, Prost, Sarrazin, d'Ambrosio, Félix da Costa, Duval, Carroll, Lynn, Piquet, Frijns and Abt. Bird was close behind Rosenqvist in the opening laps, while Heidfeld drew closer to both drivers. After starting ninth, Di Grassi was running in seventh place by the seventh lap. Engel went into the barriers lining the circuit, and drove to pit lane where his team made repairs to his car and set himself the objective of setting the race's fastest lap. However he did not achieve this as Abt recorded the race's fastest lap on his seventh lap, completing a circuit in one minute and 3.898 seconds, earning him one championship point. After locking his right-front brake, Evans ran wide, and stopped his car near the pit lane entry after lightly hitting the wall two laps later. Evans had difficulty reversing out of the barrier, prompting the event's first full course yellow flag. Gasly was the first driver to notice the full course yellow's deployment, slowing in turn ten, and fell back from the leading three runners. During the full course yellow period, di Grassi, Abt and Heidfeld were announced as the winners of the second FanBoost vote.

Racing resumed on lap 10 with Rosenqvist leading Bird and Heidfeld. Shortly afterward, Bird attacked Rosenqvist, catching the latter off guard, and passed him around the inside at the turn six hairpin for the lead at the start of the 11th lap. Heidfeld could not get ahead of his teammate and Gasly was drawing closer to the lead group. Bird began to pull away from the field. Frijns was preserving electrical energy in an attempt to gain positions. The other half of the top ten runners were delayed by Turvey with Dillmann and di Grassi battling him. Dillmann managed to overtake the struggling Turvey and di Grassi passed Turvey shortly afterward. Engel chose to risk changing into his second car on lap 15, but consequently fell to 18th while Vergne was running quickly and recovered to 12th. A second full course yellow was necessitated on lap 20 when Lynn stopped in the centre of the straight with a technical problem after leaving the turn one hairpin. This prompted several drivers, including Mahindra teammates Rosenqvist and Heidfeld, to enter the pit lane for the mandatory change into their second cars on the same lap. Bird opted to remain on track for one additional lap before making his stop, giving him more electrical energy than the drivers behind him. Techeetah drivers Vergne and Sarrazin were caught off guard by the full course yellow, and switched into their second cars just as the field returned to racing speed. The two fell down the field, but had more usable electrical energy.


Sam Bird, pictured (right) in the paddock prior to Sunday qualifying, won both of the weekend's races.
When racing resumed, Bird kept first place and was in front of both Mahindra cars. Di Grassi was seven seconds in arrears of Gasly, although the latter had fallen off the pace of the leading battle, and the two were separated by the yet-to-stop Frijns. Bird used the restart to increase his lead to three seconds over both Mahindra drivers without using too much electrical energy. D'Ambrosio spun at the chicane, and although his car's rear-end was damaged, his rear wing remained in tact. Félix da Costa steered to the inside of Duval, but spun at the first turn, falling behind Duval's teammate d'Ambrosio. Prost caught di Grassi and placed extensive pressure onto the latter for fifth position. Rosenqvist's team noticed his car had an energy readout issue, and they prompted teammate Heidfeld to overtake him for second position on lap 36 to see whether he could draw closer to Bird and pass him. Rosenqvist fell behind quickly so that his problem could be solved in a calmer environment. The manoeuvre allowed Bird to further extend his advantage by one second. Piquet was handed a drive-through penalty because he had not served an earlier ten-second penalty—which was issued to him after changing his engine—at his car swap. D'Ambrosio drove to the inside of teammate Duval entering the sixth turn, and passed him, enabling Félix da Costa to draw closer to both Dragon cars. One lap later, Félix da Costa braked later than Duval, but made contact with Duval at the first corner hairpin. Félix da Costa was issued with a drive-through penalty as a result.

Heidfeld allowed teammate Rosenqvist to move back into second place on the 48th (and penultimate) lap. Despite picking up oversteer in the race's closing stages, Bird opened up a healthy advantage and crossed the start/finish line after 49 laps to win the race. Gasly caught the Mahindra cars of Rosenqvist and Heidfeld on the final lap, and all three drivers concertinaed through the final turn. While challenging Heidfeld for third position, Gasly carried too much speed entering the final corner, drifted into the wall lining the track, and hurling a detachable barrier on the circuit, which was not collected by any other driver. Rosenqvist took second, with Heidfeld finishing third, narrowly ahead of Gasly's damaged car. Di Grassi was fifth, Prost sixth, Dillmann seventh and Vergne eighth. Frijns's additional electrical energy allowed him to pass four cars on the final lap and took ninth. D'Ambrosio rounded out the top-ten points-scoring positions. Carroll, Sarrazin, Duval and Turvey were in the next four places with Félix da Costa and Piquet the last of the classified finishers. It was Bird's second victory of the season, his second consecutive in New York City, and the fifth of his career. He was the first driver to win both races of a double header weekend since Prost at the 2016 London ePrix. There was one lead change during the race; two drivers reached the front of the field. Bird led once for a total of 29 laps, more than any other driver.

Post-race
The top three drivers appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and in a later press conference. Bird was euphoric with his second New York City win and paid tribute to the Virgin team for providing him with what he called "the best car" he had driven in his Formula E career: "What a car I was given this weekend. Blinding in qualifying, sensational on energy management in the race." He suggested in the event the series returned to New York City that the pole position be changed to track's right-hand side, and did not rule out challenging for victories at the season's final race weekend in Montreal. Second-place finisher Rosenqvist stated that he had not anticipated the strong form of the Virgin team but reserved praise for Bird's driving. He said that he was "thrilled" to return to the podium despite being overtaken by Bird after the first ten laps. Rosenqvist felt this displayed his team's potential to win more races, and was looking forward to the season's final two races. Heidfeld, who took a third-place result, said the second New York race was "quite good" and "exciting", and because of the problems affecting his teammate Rosenqvist, he made an effort to put pressure on Bird but wanted to drive in a calmer manner following his suspension failure in the previous day's race.

In regards to the final lap collision with Gasly, Heidfeld said that he did not encourage Gasly to run on the inside line, as he was attempting to remain close behind teammate Rosenqvist so there would be no space available to in which the latter could steer into: "For sure I didn’t touch him on purpose, and it’s a pity to finish like this, but at least we both made it over the line." Gasly claimed Heidfeld had placed him in a position to impact the wall following the later releasing his brake pedal. Nevertheless, he described his weekend as "very positive", but did not anticipate his advancing into super pole after having only one day's worth of experience driving in the series: "We had a very busy schedule, especially with me arriving later on during the event. There was a lot to learn but we did great. We scored important points for the team. It was a great opportunity to discover a new discipline and I enjoyed the challenge very much." Félix da Costa spoke of his disagreement of the drive-through penalty he received from the stewards after his collision with Duval in the closing laps of the event, something he said ended his race competitively.

The result of the race meant di Grassi had further reduced Buemi's Drivers' Championship advantage to ten points. Rosenqvist remained in third place on 104 points, but was only four points ahead of two-time ePrix winner Bird. Prost's sixth-place finish meant he fell to fifth position. e.Dams-Renault increased their lead over Audi Sport ABT to 65 points ahead. Mahindra maintained third place on 182 points. With 153 points, Virgin consolidated fourth position and the team were 59 points in front of Techeetah with two races left in the season. 20,000 people attended the race weekend. Di Grassi acknowledged that his team did not have the pace to challenge for victories in both races, but believed he could improve his situation in the championship contest and focused on the season's two remaining rounds.


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Result List


Result Description
1 2 United Kingdom Sam Bird Virgin-Citröen 49 58:09.388 1 285
2 19 Sweden Felix Rosenqvist Mahindra 49 +11.381 2 18
3 23 Germany Nick Heidfeld Mahindra 49 +12.319 5 15
4 9 France Pierre Gasly e.Dams-Renault 49 +12.355 4 12
5 11 Brazil Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 49 +23.451 9 10
6 8 France Nico Prost e.Dams-Renault 49 +30.471 14 8
7 4 France Tom Dillmann Venturi 49 +41.862 10 6
8 25 France Jean-Éric Vergne Techeetah-Renault 49 +52.292 3 4
9 27 Netherlands Robin Frijns Andretti-BMW 49 +60.475 19 2
10 7 Belgium Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon-Penske 49 +72.659 14 1
11 47 United Kingdom Adam Carroll Jaguar 49 +101.134 18
12 33 France Stéphane Sarrazin Techeetah-Renault 48 +1 Lap 11
13 6 France Loïc Duval Dragon-Penske 48 +1 Lap 17
14 88 United Kingdom Oliver Turvey NextEV NIO 48 +1 Lap 7
15 28 Portugal António Félix da Costa Andretti-BMW 48 +1 Lap 16
16 3 Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. NextEV NIO 46 +3 Laps 20
Ret 5 Germany Maro Engel Venturi 22 Electrical 6
Ret 37 United Kingdom Alex Lynn Virgin-Citröen 19 Gearbox 15
Ret 66 Germany Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 18 Suspension 8 16
Ret 20 New Zealand Mitch Evans Jaguar 5 Transmission 12


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