Monaco E-Prix: Vergne becomes first repeat winner of 2018/19

ByMotorsport.com

Published 11/05/2019 at 15:42 GMT

Jean-Eric Vergne became the first repeat race winner of the 2018/19 ABB FIA Formula E season after converting pole position into victory on the streets of Monaco.DS Techeetah driver Vergne maintained the advantage at the start from Mahindra's Pascal Wehrlein, who lost ground by running wide at Sainte-Devote in the early stages. Wehrlein dropped behind Oliver Rowland and Felipe Massa as a result, a

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Jean-Eric Vergne became the first repeat race winner of the 2018/19 ABB FIA Formula E season after converting pole position into victory on the streets of Monaco.

DS Techeetah driver Vergne maintained the advantage at the start from Mahindra's Pascal Wehrlein, who lost ground by running wide at Sainte-Devote in the early stages.

Wehrlein dropped behind Oliver Rowland and Felipe Massa as a result, and the top four ran in that formation for almost the remainder of the race.

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Vergne was forced to rebuff a passing attempt from Nissan's Rowland into Turn 3 on the penultimate lap, and held on to secure his second win of the 2018/19 campaign by 0.201s.

Massa survived late contact with Wehrlein to take the final spot on the podium for Venturi.

Sebastien Buemi was fifth in the second Nissan, followed by BMW's Antonio Felix da Costa. Mitch Evans (Jaguar) recovered from a 10-place grid drop to take seventh.

Sam Bird suffered a puncture on the final lap while running inside the points, while his Virgin Racing teammate and pre-race points leader Robin Frijns was eliminated in a late clash with the second BMW car of Alexander Sims.

Vergne retakes the lead of the points standings as a result of his win ahead of teammate Andre Lotterer, who recovered from 21st on the grid to finish ninth.

Full report to follow

Race results:

1	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	51
2	22	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	51	0.201
3	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	51	1.261
4	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	51	1.439
5	23	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	51	6.215
6	28	Antonio Felix da Costa	Andretti Autosport	51	15.956
7	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	51	16.213
8	66	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	51	16.400
9	36	Andre Lotterer	Techeetah	51	16.848
10	3	Alex Lynn	Jaguar Racing	51	18.112
11	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA AG	51	18.551
12	7	Jose Maria Lopez	Dragon Racing	51	18.860
13	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	51	21.488
14	17	Gary Paffett	HWA AG	51	21.853
15	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti Autosport	51	26.934
16	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E Team	51	31.861
17	2	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	50	1 Lap
4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	46	5 Laps
16	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	32	19 Laps
11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	31	20 Laps
48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	29	22 Laps
6	Maximilian Gunther	Dragon Racing	29	22 Laps
View full results

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