2021 Valencia ePrix | |||||
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Race 5 of 15 of the 2020–21 Formula E season
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Race details | |||||
Date | 24 April 2021 | ||||
Official name | 2021 DHL Valencia E-Prix | ||||
Location | Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste, Valencia | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 3.376 km (2.098 mi) | ||||
Distance | 24 laps, 81.024 km (50.346 mi) | ||||
Weather | Wet, 15 °C (59 °F). Humidity: 84%. | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Techeetah-DS | ||||
Time | 1:26.522 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Robin Frijns | Virgin-Audi | |||
Time | 1:39.611 on lap 14 | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Mercedes | ||||
Second | Dragon-Penske | ||||
Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
2021 Valencia ePrix | |||||
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Race 6 of 15 of the 2020–21 Formula E season
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Race details | |||||
Date | 25 April 2021 | ||||
Official name | 2021 DHL Valencia E-Prix | ||||
Location | Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Cheste, Valencia | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 3.376 km (2.098 mi) | ||||
Distance | 30 laps, 101.280 km (62.932 mi) | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver | Andretti-BMW | ||||
Time | 1:28.548 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Alexander Sims Alex Lynn [lower-alpha 1] | Mahindra Mahindra | |||
Time | 1:30.081 (1:30.263) on lap 26 (22) | ||||
Podium | |||||
First | Andretti-BMW | ||||
Second | Porsche | ||||
Third | Mahindra | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2021 Valencia ePrix (formally the 2021 DHL Valencia E-Prix) was a pair of Formula E electric car races held at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in the town of Cheste near Valencia, Spain on 24 and 25 April 2021. Having previously hosted numerous pre-season tests, this was the inaugural running of a competitive Formula E event at the track, as well as the first time an ePrix was held in Spain. It marked the fifth and sixth rounds of the 2020–21 Formula E season. The first race was won by Nyck de Vries, [1] with Nico Müller and Stoffel Vandoorne rounding out the podium. Jake Dennis took his first Formula E victory in the second race, [2] finishing ahead of André Lotterer and Alex Lynn.
Group draw [3] | ||||||
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Group 1 | BIR (1) | EVA (2) | FRI (3) | VAN (4) | DEV (5) | WEH (6) |
Group 2 | MOR (7) | JEV (8) | SIM (9) | DAC (10) | RAS (11) | ROW (12) |
Group 3 | SET (13) | MUL (14) | GUE (15) | BUE (16) | TUR (17) | DIG (18) |
Group 4 | BLO (19) | LYN (20) | CAS (21) | NAT (22) | DEN (23) | LOT (24) |
Notes:
Pos. | No. | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 17 | Nyck de Vries | Mercedes | 24 | 48:20.547 | 7 | 25 |
2 | 6 | Nico Müller | Dragon-Penske | 24 | +13.128 | 22 | 18 |
3 | 5 | Stoffel Vandoorne | Mercedes | 24 | +34.886 4 | 24 | 15 |
4 | 37 | Nick Cassidy | Virgin-Audi | 24 | +36.903 | 10 | 12 |
5 | 33 | René Rast | Audi | 24 | +51.650 | 14 | 10 |
6 | 4 | Robin Frijns | Virgin-Audi | 24 | +52.985 | 15 | 8+1 1 |
7 | 11 | Lucas di Grassi | Audi | 24 | +2:41.946 5 | 21 | 6 |
8 | 27 | Jake Dennis | Andretti-BMW | 24 | +3:07.061 | 13 | 4 |
9 | 25 | Jean-Éric Vergne | Techeetah-DS | 24 | +4:19.582 | 12 | 2 |
NC | 8 | Oliver Turvey | NIO | 24 | Retired in pits 6 | 23 | |
NC | 88 | Tom Blomqvist | NIO | 24 | Retired in pits 6 | 19 | |
NC | 71 | Norman Nato | Venturi-Mercedes | 23 | +1 lap | 6 | |
Ret | 48 | Edoardo Mortara | Venturi-Mercedes | 20 | Collision damage | 16 | |
Ret | 99 | Pascal Wehrlein | Porsche | 19 | Brakes | 9 | |
Ret | 36 | André Lotterer | Porsche | 19 | Collision/Brakes | 5 | |
Ret | 20 | Mitch Evans | Jaguar | 15 | Collision damage | 17 | |
Ret | 7 | Sérgio Sette Câmara | Dragon-Penske | 14 | Collision | 18 | |
Ret | 28 | Maximilian Günther | Andretti-BMW | 10 | Spun off | 2 | |
Ret | 23 | Sébastien Buemi | e.dams-Nissan | 1 | Collision | 4 | |
DSQ 7 | 22 | Oliver Rowland | e.dams-Nissan | 24 | Energy usage | 8 | |
DSQ 7 | 29 | Alexander Sims | Mahindra | 24 | Energy usage | 11 | |
DSQ 7 | 13 | António Félix da Costa | Techeetah-DS | 24 | Energy usage | 1 | 3 2 |
DSQ 7 | 94 | Alex Lynn | Mahindra | 24 | Energy usage | 3 | 1 3 |
DSQ 7 | 10 | Sam Bird | Jaguar | 24 | Energy usage | 20 | |
Source: [9] |
Notes:
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Group draw [15] | ||||||
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Group 1 | DEV (1) | VAN (2) | BIR (3) | FRI (4) | EVA (5) | WEH (6) |
Group 2 | RAS (7) | MUL (8) | MOR (9) | JEV (10) | SIM (11) | DAC (12) |
Group 3 | CAS (13) | ROW (14) | SET (15) | GUE (16) | DIG (17) | BUE (18) |
Group 4 | TUR (19) | BLO (20) | LYN (21) | DEN (22) | NAT (23) | LOT (24) |
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The ending of the first race caused controversy after roughly half of the field ran out of power at the end with five cars being disqualified and two retiring for this reason. [22] [23] Frédéric Bertrand, circuit championships director of the FIA, said after the race that the finish of the race "demonstrated how difficult it was to win in Formula E", yet conceded that it should "never happen again". [24] His comments were blasted by da Costa, one of the drivers disqualified for energy use, who stated that Formula E would become the "joke of the week" following that finish. [25] Despite this the FIA stood by its energy management rules and race winner Nyck de Vries said that Formula E is "not necessarily" at fault. [26] [27]
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