2019 Monaco ePrix explained

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Type:	CUST
Description:	Race 9 of 12 of the 2018–19 Formula E season
Country:	Monaco
Grand Prix:	Monaco
Gp Suffix:	ePrix
Date:	11 May
Year:	2019
Official Name:	2019 Monaco E-Prix
Race No:	9
Location:	Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Course:	Street circuit
Course Km:	1.765
Course Mi:	1.097
Distance Laps:	51
Distance Km:	90.018
Distance Mi:	55.935
Weather:	Sunny Air: 18.1C17.8C Track: 24.9C22.8C
Pole Team:	Techeetah-DS
Pole Time:	50.042
Pole Country:	FRA
Fast Driver:	Pascal Wehrlein
Fast Team:	Mahindra
Fast Time:	52.385
Fast Lap:	46
Fast Country:	GER
First Driver:	Jean-Éric Vergne
First Team:	Techeetah-DS
First Country:	FRA
Second Driver:	Oliver Rowland
Second Team:	e.Dams-Nissan
Second Country:	GBR
Third Driver:	Felipe Massa
Third Team:	Venturi
Third Country:	BRA

The 2019 Monaco ePrix (formally the 2019 Monaco E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 11 May 2019. It was the ninth race of the 2018–19 Formula E season and the third edition of the event.

Report

Background

The Monaco ePrix was confirmed to be returning to the Formula E calendar on 4 November 2018.^[1] It was the first time the race was held since 2017 as the event is held biennially, alternating with the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. Originally, series founder and CEO Alejandro Agag had wanted to upgrade to using the full size Circuit de Monaco instead of the shorter version used in 2017 and 2015 centred around the Rainier III Nautical Stadium.^[2] However, plans for this fell through when the FIA objected to it in September 2018.^[3]

Going into the weekend, Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns lead the championship with 81 points, a 1 point lead over Techeetah's André Lotterer with BMW Andretti's António Félix da Costa down in 3rd with 70 points. In the team's standings, Techeetah lead with 142 points followed behind by Envision Virgin with 135 and defending constructors champions, Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler down in 3rd with 129.

After the previous round in Paris, three drivers were left with three place grid penalties for qualifying for causing collisions.^[4] They were Jerome D'Ambrosio who collided with Frijns's team mate Sam Bird, Edoardo Mortara who collided with Jaguar's Alex Lynn and Oliver Rowland who collided with Alexander Sims.

Classification

Qualifying

		Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	22	Oliver Rowland	e.Dams-Nissan	50.021	–	3^,
2	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	50.042	+0.021	1
3	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	50.112	+0.091	12
4	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	50.128	+0.107	2
5	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	50.218	+0.197	4
6	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.Dams-Nissan	50.234	+0.213	5
7	27	Alexander Sims		50.351	–	6
8	3	Alex Lynn	Jaguar	50.370	+0.019	7
9	28	António Félix da Costa	Andretti-BMW	50.375	+0.024	8
10	7	José María López	Dragon-Penske	50.432	+0.081	9
11	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA-Venturi	50.451	+0.100	10
12	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	50.498	+0.147	11
13	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	50.502	+0.151	13
14	6	Maximilian Günther	Dragon-Penske	50.514	+0.163	22
15	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	50.526	+0.175	14
16	16	Oliver Turvey	NIO	50.578	+0.227	15
17	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	50.601	+0.250	19
18	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	50.602	+0.251	16
19	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	50.618	+0.267	21
20	17	Gary Paffett	HWA-Venturi	50.664	+0.313	17
21	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO	50.811	+0.460	18
22	36	André Lotterer		51.018	+0.667	20
Source:^[5]

Notes:

•  – Oliver Rowland set the fastest time and received three points for pole position but received a three-place grid penalty for colliding with Alexander Sims in the Paris ePrix. Therefore, he started in third place and Jean-Éric Vergne started in pole position.
•  – Oliver Rowland, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Edoardo Mortara received three place grid penalties for causing a collision in the previous race in Paris
•  – Mitch Evans received a 10-place grid penalty after a qualifying infringement and reached his third reprimand.
•  – Maximilian Günther received a 10-place grid penalty after speeding under Full Course Yellow during FP1 and reached his third reprimand.

Race

		Driver	Team		Time/Retired		Points
1	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	51	46:05.547	1	25
2	22	Oliver Rowland	e.Dams-Nissan	51	+0.201	3	18+3
3	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	51	+1.261	4	15
4	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	51	+1.439	2	12+1
5	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.Dams-Nissan	51	+6.215	5	10
6	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	51	+16.213	12	8
7	36	André Lotterer	Techeetah-DS	51	+16.848	20	6
8	3	Alex Lynn	Jaguar	51	+18.112	7	4
9	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA-Venturi	51	+18.551	10	2
10	7	José María López	Dragon-Penske	51	+18.860	9	1
11	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	51	+21.488	19
12	17	Gary Paffett	HWA-Venturi	51	+21.853	17
13	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti-BMW	51	+26.934	6
14	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO	51	+31.861	18
15	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	51	+49.400	16
16	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	50	Puncture	14
17	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	46	Collision	11
Ret	16	Oliver Turvey	NIO	32	Collision	15
Ret	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	31	Collision	13
Ret	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	29	Technical	21
Ret	6	Maximilian Günther	Dragon-Penske	29	Accident	22
DSQ	28	António Félix da Costa	Andretti-BMW	51	Power usage	8
Source:

Notes:

•  – Daniel Abt received a drive through penalty converted into a 33-second time penalty for causing a collision.
•  – António Félix da Costa originally finished sixth, but was disqualified for exceeding power usage over 200kW.
•  – Pole position.
•  – Fastest lap.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

+/–		Driver	Points
5	1	Jean-Éric Vergne	87
	2	André Lotterer	86
2	3	Robin Frijns	81
1	4	António Félix da Costa	70
1	5	Lucas di Grassi	70

Teams' Championship standings

+/–		Constructor	Points
	1	DS Techeetah	173
	2	Virgin-Audi	135
	3	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler	129
	4	Mahindra	116
2	5	e.Dams-Nissan	99

• Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Formula E 2018 - 2019 season: calendar, teams and drivers. DrivingElectric.
2. Web site: Formula E set to use full Monaco GP circuit. www.motorsport.com.
3. Web site: Formula E's plans to use Monaco F1 layout set to fall through. www.motorsport.com.
4. Web site: Three Formula E drivers get grid penalties for Paris E-Prix clashes. Tom Errington, Alex Kalinauckas, Norman. Fischer. Autosport.com.
5. Web site: R09 Qualifying . 11 May 2019.