Mexico City E-Prix: Rolland snatches victory from Porsche after late safety car

oliver roland Beats Porsche to victory in Mexico City E-Prix Pascal Wehrlein And Antonio Felix Da Costa After taking advantage of a late safety car to take the win.

The Nissan driver was running only fourth on lap 28 of the scheduled 36 and was several seconds behind race leaders da Costa and Wehrlein, who were both pacesetters throughout, locking out the front row.

While two Porsches and in third place are jake dennis Offering 350kW and all-wheel-drive, both Attack modes were taken this season, with Roland activating his final six minutes just moments before deploying the first of two late Safety Cars.

With just over a minute of spare power remaining on the restart on lap 31, Rolland immediately demoted Dennis to third by the final corner, before getting on the inside of Wehrlein into Turn 5.

After seeing da Costa on the outside in T9 before retreating, Rolland took the lead on the run out of the corner and dived down the inside of Turn 12, just seconds before his spare power ran out and another safety car. Was called into action. For an incident from behind.

With four laps remaining Rowland made a fast restart and caught the chasing pack napping and, despite having slightly less energy than da Costa behind, was able to take his first win of the season.

Roland started in fourth place but soon moved up to third Jean-Eric Vergne At Turn 1 on the second lap, Wehrlein passed da Costa for the lead.

But after that the early half of the race was a procedural affair as overtaking proved difficult without the extra power afforded by Attack mode, with drivers continuing to hold the two activations until later.

It took until the 14th lap for the leading runners to go off-line in the stadium section for attack mode, with Wehrlein being the first to blink and rejoining da Costa.

As Wehrlein maintained the lead, da Costa was pushed behind Rowland through the final turn and then fell behind Vergne and Dennis after running slightly wide at Turn 1.

Dennis soon moved up to second with his extra power and demoted Wehrlein to the lead by pulling a switchback into the stadium section on lap 16.

But as the Briton ran out of energy, he became a fool for those behind him, now equipped with more power, especially da Costa who moved into the lead on lap 19.

Wehrlein took his second Attack Mode on lap 20 from third, but despite the extra performance he was unable to catch Dennis, who took his second Attack Mode a lap later.

On lap 22 Dennis found himself back in the lead as da Costa took his final attack mode, rejoining just in front of Wehrlein, but as earlier in the race Dennis slipped back when his spare performance ended. .

Da Costa moved back into the lead by lap 23 into Turn 12, before Wehrlein made the Porsche 1–2 laps later at Turn 9 and it looked like the race was in hand.

But the complexion of the race changed after several laps when the suspension broke david beckmanAfter contact with Kapra Kiro zane maloneyLola-Yamaha Abt left the German stranded at Turn 12.

The following safety car eventually allowed Rolland, who was more than 2 seconds behind Dennis at that stage of the race, to take advantage and claim the unexpected victory.

Sao Paulo winner despite second safety car on lap 31 mitch evans Nico Muller’s suspension broke on the rear of Andretti, leaving him stranded on the track, with Rowland passing da Costa and Wehrlein for the lead at the checkered flag.

Dennis just missed out on the podium in fourth place DS Penske Vergne and Maximilian Guenther’s drivers.

maserati msg Stoffel Vandoorne and Mahindra’s Nick de Vries Having finished seventh and eighth, Muller finished ninth, allowing Dennis to maintain track position during the Attack Mode stage.

taylor barnard completed the top 10 mclaren Driver was the first to switch to Attack mode, but retained the other mode for subsequent proceedings, which he used to good effect as he started 19th.

Mexico City E-Prix results