Marrakesh ePrix

Date
Sat 12th November 2016 (UTC)

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Formula E

Season
2016-2017

Round
2

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no fanart thumb Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan

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The 2016 Marrakesh ePrix (formally the 2016 FIA Formula E Marrakesh ePrix) was a Formula E motor race held on 12 November 2016 at the Circuit Moulay El Hassan in Marrakesh, Morocco in front of a crowd of 7,000 people. It was the second round of the 2016–17 Formula E season and the first time the series had visited the African continent. The 33-lap race was won by Renault e.Dams driver Sébastien Buemi who started from the seventh position. Sam Bird finished second for the DS Virgin Racing team and Mahindra Racing driver Felix Rosenqvist came in third.

Rosenqvist won the pole position and maintained his start line advantage on the first lap. He pulled away from the rest of the field and kept the lead until the mandatory round of pit stops when Buemi took over the first position for one lap until he made his stop. Rosenqvist regained the lead but was required to conserve his car's electrical energy usage because of making a pit stop one lap earlier than the rest of the field, allowing Buemi to narrow the time deficit between the two drivers. Buemi passed Rosenqvist for the lead on the 27th lap and held it for the remainder of the race to clinch the win. There were two lead changes among two different drivers during the course of the race.

It was Buemi's second consecutive victory of the season and his eighth in the series. The result meant Buemi increased his lead in the Drivers' Championship to be 22 points ahead of nearest rival Lucas di Grassi. Buemi's teammate Nicolas Prost moved from fourth to third, while Rosenqvist's strong finish enabled him to move into fourth place, and Bird rounded out the top five. Renault e.Dams expanded their Teams' Championship advantage over ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport and Mahindra Racing by 19 points with ten races left in the season.

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Result Description

1 9 Sébastien Buemi
DAMS 33 47'40.840 123.4 25
2 2 Sam Bird
Virgin Racing 33 47'43.297 2.457 2.457 123.3 18
3 19 Felix Rosenqvist
Mahindra Racing 33 47'48.035 7.195 4.738 123.1 18
4 8 Nicolas Prost
DAMS 33 47'52.426 11.586 4.391 122.9 12
5 11 Lucas di Grassi
Team Abt 33 47'54.611 13.771 2.185 122.8 10
6 66 Daniel Abt
Team Abt 33 47'59.073 18.233 4.462 122.6 8
7 88 Oliver Turvey
NEXTEV TCR Formula E Team 33 48'02.550 21.710 3.477 122.4 6
8 25 Jean-Eric Vergne
Techeetah 33 48'08.851 28.011 6.301 122.2 4
9 23 Nick Heidfeld
Mahindra Racing 33 48'14.539 33.699 5.688 121.9 2
10 37 Jose Maria Lopez
Virgin Racing 33 48'14.703 33.863 0.164 121.9 1
11 27 Robin Frijns
Andretti Autosport 33 48'17.932 37.092 3.229 121.8
12 4 Stéphane Sarrazin
Venturi 33 48'21.523 40.683 3.591 121.6
13 7 Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Dragon Racing 33 48'22.874 42.034 1.351 121.6
14 47 Adam Carroll
Jaguar Racing 33 48'29.866 49.026 6.992 121.3
15 33 Ma Qing Hua
Techeetah 33 48'31.273 50.433 1.407 121.2
16 3 Nelson Piquet Jr.
NEXTEV TCR Formula E Team 33 48'56.292 1'15.452 25.019 120.2
17 20 Mitch Evans
Jaguar Racing 32 47'55.284 1 lap 1 lap 119.0
18 6 Loic Duval
Dragon Racing 30 48'51.146 3 laps 2 laps 109.5 1
nc 5 Maro Engel
Venturi 26 49'11.067 7 laps 4 laps

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