FE – Marrakesh situation to host round 5 of the 2019/20 ABB FIA System E Championship

The ABB FIA System E Championship will take cling of to the streets of Marrakesh, Morocco on Saturday, 29 February, for round 5 of the 2019/20 season. The two.971 kilometre prolonged circuit contains 12 corners, beginning by following the Circuit Global Automobile Moulay El Hassan before joining the metropolis streets of Marrakesh. Situated alongside the centuries-obsolete Marrakesh Wall, the stir takes situation suited a shrimp while from the medina and world-effectively-known souks.

Closing day out

Within the old version of the Marrakesh E-Prix in January 2019, Jerome d’Ambrosio sprinted to victory in a dramatic final lap scurry to the assemble, after a gradual security car bunched up the pack following a collision between BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT pairing Antonio Felix Da Costa and Alexander Sims. D’Ambrosio started down the sphere in tenth, however frequently improved up the ranks to search out himself sat at the lend a hand of the leading BMW duo.

With much less than ten minutes left on the countdown clock, Da Costa and Sims looked situation to raise home a one-two for the workforce, however it absolutely wasn’t to be. Sims – who become once on the tail of his workforce mate right via the stir – pulled alongside Da Costa into the braking zone of Flip 7 in an try and snatch the lead. Each and each drivers locked-up and touched with neither making the nook. The coming collectively and sluggish recovery lend a hand to the racing line dropped Sims to fourth. But Da Costa got here off worse along with his stir ending parked-up within the skedaddle-off rental after contact with the barrier.

With the vehicles lined-up in shut formation, the safety car pulled in because the clock hit zero – leaving one lap to the chequered flag. Running broad over the kerb within the final nook – d’Ambrosio gave the followers a grandstand assemble with Robin Frijns chasing him to the road. Frijns become once joined on the podium by Envision Virgin Racing workforce mate Sam Bird.

Most modern standings

The first four rounds of the 2019/20 season should always this level produced four completely different winners: Sam Bird (Envision Virgin Racing), Alexander Sims and Maximilian Günther (both BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT) and basically the most most modern one Mitch Evans (Panasonic Jaguar Racing). Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes-Benz EQ System E Group) led the driver championship standings before heading to round four, however now not scoring any parts in Mexico Metropolis dropped him to fourth situation. Evans has now taken up the tip situation, suited one level forward of Sims. Antonio Felix Da Costa’s two 2nd locations from Santiago and Mexico Metropolis mean he’s now rounding out the tip three.

BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT stay the workforce with the perfect quantity of parts and defend the tip situation of the workforce championship standings. The correct outcomes of Evans potential that Panasonic Jaguar Racing now practice in 2nd whereas Mercedes-Benz is third. With both drivers (Da Costa and Jean-Eric Vergne) scoring parts in Mexico Metropolis, reigning workforce champions DS TECHEETAH moved up to fourth situation.

Novices Return

For the third time in succession, Marrakesh will host an in-season rookie test on the Sunday following the stir (1 March). Initiate to all drivers who get now not defend an eLicence, this twelve months will again survey an engrossing combination of up-and-coming children and proven racers from other forms of motor sport. The list of talents taking to the Marrakesh track the day after the E-Prix has been printed only within the near past and could well well additionally be came upon here. The test day would possibly be damaged into two classes, with a morning skedaddle taking situation from 10: 00 – 13: 00 and a day session between 14: 00 – 17: 00.

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