Event statistics following this weekend’s 103-kilometer
(64-mile) CBMM Niobium Punta del Este ePrix at the 1.73-mile (2.785-kilometer),
20-turn Punta del Este Street Circuit in Punta del Este, Uruguay. It marked the
sixth round of the 12-round 2017-2018 season and fourth of the 2018 calendar
year (first two rounds in Hong Kong were held at the end of 2017).
Jean-Eric Vergne held off a strong charge by Lucas di Grassi
to win by about two-and-a-half car lengths for his third victory of the season.
Vergne had been elevated to the pole after a penalty dropped di Grassi, the
fastest qualifier, to second.
Race Statistics
CBMM Niobium Punta del Este ePrix
Punta del Este Street Circuit – Punta del Este, Uruguay
- Winner (starting position): Jean-Eric Vergne (1st)
- Podium Finishers: Jean-Eric Vergne, Lucas di Grassi, Sam
Bird
- Full Results: Jean-Eric Vergne, Lucas di Grassi, Sam Bird,
Mitch Evans, Felix Rosenqvist, Alex Lynn, Oliver Turvey, Jose Maria, Lopez,
Jerome D’Ambrosio, Maro Engel, Antonio Felix da Costa, Andre Lotterer, Luca
Filippi, Daniel Abt, Nicolas Prost, Tom Blomqvist, Edoardo Mortara, Sebastien
Buemi, Nelson Piquet Jr., Nick Heidfeld
- Laps Completed: 37
- Race Leaders: 2
- Laps Led: Jean-Eric Vergne (36), Jose Maria Lopez (1)
- Pole Position: Jean-Eric Vergne (1 minute, 16.806 seconds)
- Hard Charger: Mitch Evans (+12; 16th to 4th)
- Margin of Victory: 0.447 seconds
- Car Count: 20
- Cars Finishing: 17 (of 20; or 85 percent of the field)
- Drivers to Finish on Lead Lap: 16
- Cautions: 1 for 3 laps
- Average Speed: 121.874 kph/75.729 mph
- Lead Changes: 2
- Fastest Lap: Jose Maria Lopez (1 minute, 16.811 seconds)
Notes of Interest
- This is the second victory of the season for Jean-Eric
Vergne, and his third career victory. Vergne’s first victory of the 2017-2018
season also came in South America, at Parque Forestal in Santiago, Chile.
- Both of Vergne’s victories this season have come from the
pole position. Three of the six races this season have been won from the pole.
- Vergne has been on the pole position for two of the three
races at Punta del Este. Vergne also earned the pole at the track in 2014. His
previous best finish at the track was seventh came during the 2015-2016 season.
- Vergne has finished in the top five in each of his six
races this season. He has an average finish of third.
- Vergne has led a season-best three races (tied with Felix
Rosenqvist) for a season-best 91 laps (those 91 laps led account for 129 total
in his career).
- Vergne extended his points lead to 30 points over Felix
Rosenqvist.
- Vergne is tied with Sebastien Buemi for most pole
positions this season, with three.
- Vergne moved into a tie for fourth all-time in Formula E
victories, with Nicolas Prost and Felix Rosenqvist. Prost and Vergne have given
France a total of six victories, tied for third behind Switzerland (12) and
Brazil (8).
- Former series champion Lucas di Grassi finished a
season-best second, just 0.447 seconds behind Vergne. It was di Grassi’s second
top-10 finish of the season.
- Sam Bird finished third, notching his third podium of the
season and fifth top-five.
- Alex Lynn scored his season-best finish, with a
sixth-place effort.
- Sebastien Buemi failed to finish, retiring after 29 laps
with battery problems. It marked his first DNF of the season and the sixth race
in 37 of his career he was not classified (two of those six resulted in
disqualifications).
- Jose Maria Lopez finished eighth. He led his first lap in
Formula E competition this season and set the race’s fastest lap.
- The top five finishers represented five different
countries. The United Kingdom earned three of the top seven positions (Sam
Bird, Alex Lynn and Oliver Turvey).
- A total of 20 drivers have scored points this season.
- The next FIA Formula E race is April 14 in Rome, Italy.
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