Nissan Ariya: UK pricing starts from £43,845 and the full line up available to order from July 5th

More

All-electric Citroen e-C4 X is four-door fastback with added SUV attitude

More

DS 7 E-TENSE arrives with revised look and new 360hp PHEV variant

More

Hyundai Unveils Design of All-Electric IONIQ 6, Electrified Streamliner with Mindful Interior Design

More

Truemag

  • Electric Car News
  • Electric Car Reviews
  • Plug-in Hybrids
  • Technology
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Advertise
  • Charging Map

Piquet Wins Moscow ePrix [full race video]

Nelson Piquet Jr claimed a comfortable Moscow ePrix victory to extend his Formula E championship lead at the head of the standings.

Just as he did in Long Beach back in April, he jumped into the lead of the Moscow ePrix at the start before going on to build up a commanding gap that he simply maintained after the car swap.

Piquet’s second win for the NEXTEV TCR team increased his championship lead and ensures he heads into the season finale double-header in London with a 12-point lead.

It was a mixed race for his title challengers. Lucas di Grassi closed his fellow Brazilian down in the second half of the race, reducing the gap from six seconds to 1.6s at its smallest. But the charge had taken the Audi Sport ABT car’s battery to its maximum temperature and he was forced to slow to let it cool down.

Who knows what the race would have been like if he had found a way by poleman Jean-Eric Vergne before the pitstops, but with overtaking extremely tricky around the Moscow street track he had to bide his time. Still after the disappointment of Berlin, he was pleased to show he and the team still had good pace.

For Sebastien Buemi the race was even more fraught. Stuck behind Vergne and di Grassi from the start, he was able to conserve energy and stay out a lap longer than his rivals. It could have been a winning strategy, but amazingly his e.dams-Renault team mistook the minimum pitstop time and held the Swiss driver in the pits for 68 seconds rather than the mandated 58.

Having lost 10 seconds, Buemi was on a charge late on, and went wheel-to-wheel with Vergne – both drivers cutting the chicane with Buemi emerging ahead. If he had thoughts of letting the Andretti driver repass, they were undone with Nick Heidfeld took full advantage of the confusion to nip into third. All three cars touched through the Turn 11 hairpin and they were covered by fractions as they crossed the line.

Vergne had the satisfaction of taking two points and the trophy for the Visa Fastest Lap as well as fifth place.

Daniel Abt had a welcome trouble-free run to sixth for ABT, while Salvador Duran scored his best ever Formula E result with a convincing drive to seventh for Amlin Aguri. Team-mate Antonio Felix da Costa had to produce a battling drive to get to eighth, fighting his way past an obdurate Jarno Trulli in the process.

The Italian spent much of the race defending his position until finally his resolve was punctured by a late-braking Loic Duval who rammed the rear of the Trulli with his Dragon Racing machine as he was actually battling Justin Wilson. It had been a strong drive from the back for the Frenchman, whose qualifying was ruined when the car went into neutral.

Trulli’s race was over, which meant Wilson picked up a point for 10th place on his Formula E debut. Ninth place for Nicolas Prost pretty much ends his title challenge, while a pitstop problem for Jerome D’Ambrosio means there’s now effectively a three-way fight for the title.

Drivers’ Standings (After Rd 9):
1. Nelson Piquet Jr. – 128 pts
2. Sebastien Buemi – 116 pts
3. Lucas di Grassi – 111 pts
4. Nicolas Prost – 80 pts
5. Jerome d’Ambrosio – 77 pts
6. Sam Bird – 68 pts
7. Jean-Eric Vergne – 50 pts
8. Antonio Felix da Costa – 45 pts
9. Daniel Abt – 30 pts
10. Jaime Alguersuari – 30 pts

Teams’ Standings (After Rd 9):
1. e.dams-Renault Formula E – 196 pts
2. Audi Sport ABT Formula E – 141 pts
3. NEXTEV TCR (China Racing Formula E) – 132 pts
4. Dragon Racing Formula E – 116 pts
5. Andretti Formula E – 99 pts
6. Virgin Racing Formula E – 98 pts
7. Amlin Aguri Formula E – 58 pts
8. Mahindra Racing Formula E – 46 pts
9. Venturi Formula E – 46 pts
10. Trulli Formula E – 17 pts

Jun 6, 2015Blagojce Krivevski
Forze VI Hydrogen Fuel cell Racer Sets Nurburgring Lap Record [w/video]Advanced Microgrid Solutions Signs 500 MWh Energy Storage Deal with Tesla
You Might Also Like
 
Jake Dennis takes victory on home-soil at the 2021 Heineken London E-Prix
 
Formula E Secures Minority Investments from Liberty Global and Discovery Communications
Blagojce Krivevski

Blagojce Krivevski is physicist and green technology lover. Keep in touch with Blagojce through his email, web site, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and Google+.

June 6, 2015 Electric Car Newsformula e, Moscow ePrix, Nelson Piquet Jr
Follow Us
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • google-news
  • linkedin
  • youtube
  • instagram
  • feedburner
Recent News
Being out of pocket and losing time are two of the biggest electric van concerns in new report from Ford
July 7, 2022
Britishvolt and Posco Chemical Sign MoU to Secure Supply of Cathode and Anode Active Materials
July 7, 2022
Renault Group inaugurates a new production line for electric motors at the Cléon plant
July 7, 2022
Rivian Delivered 4,467 Electric Vehicles in Q2 2022
July 6, 2022
CUPRA Born awarded a five-star safety rating by Euro NCAP
July 6, 2022
About
ElectricCarsReport.com ElectricCarsReport.com is a website dedicated to pure electric vehicles and the full range of consumer information and tools about electric cars, green technology energy, and the environment.
Latest News
Being out of pocket and losing time are two of the biggest electric van concerns in new report from Ford
July 7, 2022
Britishvolt and Posco Chemical Sign MoU to Secure Supply of Cathode and Anode Active Materials
July 7, 2022
Renault Group inaugurates a new production line for electric motors at the Cléon plant
July 7, 2022
Subscribe

Sign up for our newsletter to receive the latest news and event postings.

Get in touch

Email: [email protected]

Archives
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • google-news
  • linkedin
  • youtube
  • instagram
  • feedburner
DMCA.com
2021 © ElectricCarsReport.com | All Rights Reserved.