Oliver Rowland claimed victory within the Mexico Metropolis E-Prix, beating Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa after capitalising on a late security automotive restart to grab the win.
The Nissan driver was working solely fourth on lap 28 of the scheduled 36 and several other seconds behind race chief da Costa and Wehrlein, each of whom had been the pacesetters all through having locked out the entrance row.
Whereas the 2 Porsches and third-place Jake Dennis had taken each Assault Modes, providing 350kW and all-wheel-drive this season, Rowland activated his remaining six minutes simply moments earlier than the primary of two late security automobiles have been deployed.
With simply over a minute of additional energy remaining on the restart on lap 31, Rowland instantly demoted Dennis for third popping out of the ultimate nook earlier than lunging up the within of Wehrlein into Flip 5.
Having appeared to the surface of da Costa into T9 earlier than backing out, Rowland obtained the run out of the nook and dived to the within into Flip 12 to take the lead simply seconds earlier than his further energy ran dry and one other security automotive was known as into motion for an incident behind.
With 4 laps remaining Rowland caught the chasing pack napping with a fast restart and regardless of having barely much less power than da Costa behind, was capable of maintain on for his first win of the season.
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