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Expedient a day after the fifth spherical of the 2019/20 ABB FIA System E Championship took keep of residing, the official rookie take a look at saw a corpulent line-up of contemporary talent taking on the streets of Marrakesh, Morocco on 1 March. The one-day take a look at started with a morning session from 10: 00 to 13: 00 and continued in the afternoon from 14: 00 to 17: 00.

Qualified GT Championship driver Cut Cassidy keep of residing the fastest time of the day by posting a 1m16.467s in the course of the afternoon session. The supreme other driver achieving a lap time below 1m17s became Sergio Sette Camara (GEOX DRAGON). The Brazilian FIA System 2 Championship driver ended up 2d in the classification after lapping the circuit with an impressive 1m16.930s.

Filipe Albuquerque (DS TECHEETAH), who had keep of residing the fastest time coming into the closing hour, became no longer ready to compare the two front runners and had to resolve for third keep of residing once the chequered flag became waved. His crew mate Nicolas Lapierre ended the day in fourth posting a 1m17.116s. The Frenchman had replaced James Rossiter at slack designate, because the crew’s approved take a look at driver filled in for the in unhappy health Jean-Eric Vergne in the course of the major Free Rehearsal of the 2020 Marrakesh E-Prix and had resulting from this truth lost his rookie space.

American Kyle Kirkwood turned the wheel for the BMW i ANDRETTI MOTORSPORT crew and left a correct impact posting his fastest lap time of 1m17.272s, which resulted in him claiming fifth in the blended classification.

ROKiT Venturi Racing had confirmed the identical rookie take a look at line-up as in season 5. Arthur Leclerc – brother of System One driver Charles Leclerc – became again joined by Norman Nato. Whereas the Monegasque accomplished his day in 19th keep of residing, the Frenchman became ready to raise on to sixth space in his first day day out with the Silver Arrow 01.

Separated by a hole of handiest 0.001s, Jake Hughes (Mercedes-Benz EQ System E Crew), who became no longer too long in the past confirmed for any other season in the FIA System 3 Championship adopted in seventh. Kirkwood’s crew mate at BMW, DTM driver Lucas Auer, accomplished the day in eighth keep of residing.

The day’s working went slightly uninterrupted, with the handiest purple flag being triggered when Kelvin van der Linde (Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler System E Crew) spun his automobile in flip 12. Van der Linde had posted the fastest time in the major of the two three-hour sessions, but his morning benchmark became surpassed by a more than just a few of drivers in the afternoon leaving him in ninth space on the blended classification sheet.

Panasonic Jaguar Racing had lined-up Sacha Fenestraz, who last year obtained the Japanese System 3 Championship, alongside Jamie Chadwick. Fenestraz rounded out the discontinue ten, whereas Chadwick, who returned to System E testing as winner of the inaugural W Series ended the day in 13th.


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