2014 Punta del Este ePrix

CUST Race 3 of 11 of the 2014–15 Formula E season Uruguay Punta del Este ePrix Punta del Este ePrix (con mar).svg Layout of the Punta del Este Street Circuit 13 December 2014 2014 FIA Formula E Julius Baer Punta del Este ePrix 3 11 Punta del Este, Uruguay Street circuit 2.80 1.70 31 86.80 52.7 Jean-Éric Vergne Andretti 1:15.408 FRA Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 1:18:451 22 GER Sébastien Buemi e.dams Renault CHE Nelson Piquet Jr. China Racing BRA Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT BRA PDE 300px|thumb|The 2014 Punta del Este ePrix was the first race of the Formula E history in the Americas. The 2014 Punta del Este ePrix, formally the 2014 FIA Formula E Julius Baer Punta del Este ePrixPunta del Este official programme http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/20921ba7#/20921ba7/1 Formula E 9 December 2014 was a Formula E motor race held on 13 December 2014 at the Punta del Este Street Circuit in Punta del Este, Uruguay. It was the first Punta del Este ePrix and the third championship race of the single-seater, electrically powered racing car series' inaugural season, the first in the Americas.http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/calendar/2014-punta-del-este/punta-del-este-circuit.aspx Punta del Este, Uruguay – Round 3 fiaformulae.com 9 December 2014 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20141209040949/http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/calendar/2014-punta-del-este/punta-del-este-circuit.aspx 9 December 2014 Report Background Jean-Éric Vergne, Salvador Duran and Antonio Garcia were brought in to replace Franck Montagny, Katherine Legge and Ho-Pin Tung respectively. Vergne, Durán and Nick Heidfeld were voted for to receive the FanBoost. Race Jean-Éric Vergne started on pole position. Behind him were Nelson Piquet Jr., Nicolas Prost, and Sébastien Buemi. Piquet immediately overtook Vergne and Buemi overtook Prost, while the whole field safely squeezed through the first chicane. Nick Heidfeld used his FanBoost and went up to fifth position. On the fourth lap, Sam Bird went over a kerb in the first corner and, unable to steer, hit the wall. This brought out the safety car. Green flags were waved on the sixth lap, but the race was soon neutralized again when Da Costa had to retire on track. After that, Vergne managed to pass Piquet for the lead. Buemi tried to pass him as well, but locked up his front wheels. Both drivers had to use the run-off area, but kept their positions. On the sixteenth lap, Piquet had fallen back behind both e.dams drivers, and Vergne made his pit stop. Meanwhile, Stéphane Sarrazin's suspension failed when he hit a kerb and he crashed out. This brought out a third safety car. Bruno Senna had hit the wall in the same incident, but managed to switch cars at the same time as his rivals, without losing much time. On the twentieth lap, Heidfeld was leading the race, but received a drive-through penalty for exceeding the maximum power usage. Nicolas Prost was then penalized in the same manner. This left the top three as Buemi, Vergne, Piquet. A fourth safety car was called on lap 27 when Matthew Brabham crashed exactly like Sarrazin did earlier. With two laps left to race, Vergne used his FanBoost as soon as the safety car pulled off, but did not manage to take the lead. Buemi, however, cut the chicane and it was debated whether he should relinquish his position. Before any action was carried out, however, Vergne ran out of power and retired. He did score three points for his pole position. Buemi took the victory with Piquet second and Di Grassi third. Further back, Heidfeld used his FanBoost and managed to take tenth position, and with that a championship point, by beating Antonio Garcia to the line by just three hundreds of a second. Results Qualifying Pos. Qualifying position No. Number Driver Team Time Gap Grid 1 27 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Andretti 1:15.408 1 2 99 BRA Nelson Piquet Jr. China Racing 1:15.530 +0.122 2 3 8 FRA Nicolas Prost e.dams-Renault 1:15.722 +0.314 3 4 9 SUI Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Renault 1:15.842 +0.434 4 5 3 ESP Jaime Alguersuari Virgin Racing 1:16.053 +0.645 5 6 11 BRA Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 1:16.108 +0.700 6 7 10 ITA Jarno Trulli Trulli 1:16.144 +0.736 7 8 23 GER Nick Heidfeld Venturi 1:16.225 +0.817 8 9 66 GER Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 1:16.374 +0.966 9 10 5 IND Karun Chandhok Mahindra Racing 1:16.416 +1.008 10 11 6 ESP Oriol Servia Dragon Racing 1:16.811 +1.403 11 12 55 POR António Félix da Costa Amlin Aguri 1:16.865 +1.457 12 13 30 FRA Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi 1:17.025 +1.617 13 14 88 ESP Antonio García China Racing 1:17.653 +2.245 14 15 77 MEX Salvador Duran Amlin Aguri 1:17.810 +2.402 15 16 18 ITA Michela Cerruti Trulli 1:20.206 +4.798 16 17 7 BEL Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon Racing no time 17 18 2 GBR Sam Bird Virgin Racing no time 18 19 28 USA Matthew Brabham Andretti no time 19 20 21 BRA Bruno Senna Mahindra Racing 一 一 20 Race Pos. Position No. Car number Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 9 SUI Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Renault 31 49:08.990 4 25 2 99 BRA Nelson Piquet Jr. China Racing 31 +0.732 2 18 3 11 BRA Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT 31 +2.635 6 15 4 10 ITA Jarno Trulli Trulli 31 +4.163 7 12 5 3 ESP Jaime Alguersuari Virgin Racing 31 +4.698 5 10 6 21 BRA Bruno Senna Mahindra Racing 31 +5.197 20 8 7 8 FRA Nicolas Prost e.dams-Renault 31 +6.514 3 6 8 7 BEL Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon Racing 31 +7.567 17 4 9 6 ESP Oriol Servia Dragon Racing 31 +8.646 11 2 10 23 GER Nick Heidfeld Venturi 31 +10.563 8 1 11 88 ESP Antonio Garcia China Racing 31 +10.594 14 12 18 ITA Michela Cerruti Trulli 31 +19.617 16 13 5 IND Karun Chandhok Mahindra Racing 31 +54.175 10 14 27 FRA Jean-Éric Vergne Andretti 29 Suspension 1 31 1 15 66 GER Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT 28 +3 laps 9 22 2 16 77 MEX Salvador Durán Amlin Aguri 27 +4 laps 15 Ret 28 USA Matthew Brabham Andretti 26 Accident 19 Ret 30 FRA Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi 15 Suspension 13 Ret 55 POR António Félix da Costa Amlin Aguri 6 Mechanical 12 Ret 3 GBR Sam Bird Virgin Racing 3 Accident 18 Notes: 3 1 – Three points for pole position. 4 2 – Two points for fastest lap. Standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings PosDriverPoints 1 BRA Lucas di Grassi 58 2 CHE Sébastien Buemi 40 3 GBR Sam Bird 40 4 FRA Nicolas Prost 24 5 BRA Nelson Piquet Jr. 22 Teams' Championship standings Pos Constructor Points 1 FRA e.dams-Renault 64 2 GER Audi Sport ABT 62 3 GBR Virgin Racing 54 4 USA Dragon Racing 36 5 USA Andretti 33 Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. References External links Official results |- style="text-align:center" |width="35%"|Previous race:2014 Putrajaya ePrix |width="30%"|FIA Formula E Championship2014–15 season |width="35%"|Next race:2015 Buenos Aires ePrix |- style="text-align:center" |width="35%"|Previous race:N/A |width="30%"|Punta del Este ePrix |width="35%"|Next race:2015 Punta del Este ePrix |- style="text-align:center" Punta del Este ePrix Punta del Este ePrix Category:Punta del Este ePrix