Hong Kong Formula E: Robin Frijns and Oliver Rowland lead practice
Envision Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns sealed the fastest time in rain-affected practice for ABB FIA Formula E's Hong Kong E-Prix with a last-minute effort in FP2
Frijns set a 1m09.221s effort after the chequered flag had flown in second practice to leapfrog Nissan e.dams' Oliver Rowland, who had earlier topped the opening session with a 1m09.283s lap.
The second practice had looked set to produce slower times because of a downpour between the running, and only Frijns was able to beat Rowland's first session benchmark come the end of practice.
DS Techeetah's Andre Lotterer ended up third ahead of Edoardo Mortara, who had completed just five laps going into the second half of the session having stopped on track moments after it began.
The Venturi driver eventually added further laps to knock Sam Bird into fifth. The Virgin driver had made contact with the wall in the first session.
Reigning champion Jean-Eric Vergne was sixth. He had admitted on Saturday that he did not fully understand his DS Techeetah's handling at present.
NIO's Oliver Turvey climbed from the bottom rung of the timesheets to go eighth ahead of Gary Paffett.
The HWA driver had held the top spot heading into the final four minutes before he was shuffled down the order. Paffett had stopped on track in the first session with a drivetrain problem.
Audi's Daniel Abt rounded out the top 10 ahead of BMW Andretti driver Alexander Sims, the second Audi of Lucas di Grassi and Venturi's Felipe Massa.
A flurry of late laps meant NIO's Tom Dillmann dropped from fourth to 14th ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne.
Championship leader Jerome D'Ambrosio featured in the lower end of the timesheets in both sessions and finished practice in 20th, with his Mahindra team-mate Pascal Wehrlein in 17th.
Mitch Evans caused a yellow flag when a suspected driveshaft problem caused him to pull off track at the Turn 6 hairpin.
The Jaguar driver ended second practice in 21st but still 5.476s up on Dragon Racing's Felipe Nasr - who completed just three laps after brushing a wall at Turn 9.
Practice one times
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Oliver Rowland | e.dams | Nissan | 1m09.283s | - | 26 |
2 | Andre Lotterer | DS Techeetah | DS | 1m09.653s | 0.370s | 28 |
3 | Jean-Eric Vergne | DS Techeetah | DS | 1m09.744s | 0.461s | 25 |
4 | Sebastien Buemi | e.dams | Nissan | 1m09.893s | 0.610s | 27 |
5 | Daniel Abt | Audi | Audi | 1m09.956s | 0.673s | 30 |
6 | Robin Frijns | Virgin | Audi | 1m09.957s | 0.674s | 26 |
7 | Jose Maria Lopez | Dragon | Penske | 1m10.070s | 0.787s | 27 |
8 | Gary Paffett | HWA | Venturi | 1m10.236s | 0.953s | 30 |
9 | Alexander Sims | BMW | BMW | 1m10.382s | 1.099s | 29 |
10 | Edoardo Mortara | Venturi | Venturi | 1m10.418s | 1.135s | 26 |
11 | Stoffel Vandoorne | HWA | Venturi | 1m10.567s | 1.284s | 30 |
12 | Sam Bird | Virgin | Audi | 1m10.724s | 1.441s | 26 |
13 | Tom Dillmann | NIO | NIO | 1m10.728s | 1.445s | 28 |
14 | Felipe Massa | Venturi | Venturi | 1m10.864s | 1.581s | 32 |
15 | Mitch Evans | Jaguar | Jaguar | 1m10.898s | 1.615s | 23 |
16 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Jaguar | Jaguar | 1m11.021s | 1.738s | 24 |
17 | Lucas di Grassi | Audi | Audi | 1m11.316s | 2.033s | 25 |
18 | Felipe Nasr | Dragon | Penske | 1m11.321s | 2.038s | 25 |
19 | Antonio Felix da Costa | BMW | BMW | 1m11.380s | 2.097s | 31 |
20 | Pascal Wehrlein | Mahindra | Mahindra | 1m11.396s | 2.113s | 28 |
21 | Jerome d'Ambrosio | Mahindra | Mahindra | 1m11.843s | 2.560s | 28 |
22 | Oliver Turvey | NIO | NIO | 1m12.305s | 3.022s | 27 |
Practice two times
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Robin Frijns | Virgin | Audi | 1m09.221s | - | 11 |
2 | Oliver Rowland | e.dams | Nissan | 1m09.478s | 0.257s | 17 |
3 | Andre Lotterer | DS Techeetah | DS | 1m09.499s | 0.278s | 24 |
4 | Edoardo Mortara | Venturi | Venturi | 1m09.523s | 0.302s | 9 |
5 | Sebastien Buemi | e.dams | Nissan | 1m09.845s | 0.624s | 19 |
6 | Sam Bird | Virgin | Audi | 1m09.909s | 0.688s | 12 |
7 | Jean-Eric Vergne | DS Techeetah | DS | 1m10.066s | 0.845s | 17 |
8 | Oliver Turvey | NIO | NIO | 1m10.078s | 0.857s | 18 |
9 | Gary Paffett | HWA | Venturi | 1m10.160s | 0.939s | 22 |
10 | Daniel Abt | Audi | Audi | 1m10.178s | 0.957s | 18 |
11 | Alexander Sims | BMW | BMW | 1m10.224s | 1.003s | 15 |
12 | Lucas di Grassi | Audi | Audi | 1m10.268s | 1.047s | 17 |
13 | Felipe Massa | Venturi | Venturi | 1m10.353s | 1.132s | 18 |
14 | Tom Dillmann | NIO | NIO | 1m10.490s | 1.269s | 17 |
15 | Stoffel Vandoorne | HWA | Venturi | 1m10.599s | 1.378s | 22 |
16 | Antonio Felix da Costa | BMW | BMW | 1m10.913s | 1.692s | 16 |
17 | Pascal Wehrlein | Mahindra | Mahindra | 1m11.130s | 1.909s | 17 |
18 | Jose Maria Lopez | Dragon | Penske | 1m11.152s | 1.931s | 20 |
19 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Jaguar | Jaguar | 1m11.213s | 1.992s | 16 |
20 | Jerome d'Ambrosio | Mahindra | Mahindra | 1m11.240s | 2.019s | 17 |
21 | Mitch Evans | Jaguar | Jaguar | 1m13.569s | 4.348s | 5 |
22 | Felipe Nasr | Dragon | Penske | 1m19.045s | 9.824s | 5 |
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