Puebla E-Prix: Mortara holds off Wehrlein to secure FE victory

He pounced on the duel between front-row starters Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein to move for his second wade mode vivification and rejoined from the constructive joker lap in wipe air.

From there, Mortara kept Wehrlein at bay thanks in part to repeatedly finding masses of time through the banked final Turn 15 to prevent the Porsche from attempting a pass.

But it looked as though Wehrlein was playing the long game, sitting in the slipstream in the thinner air of the high-altitude Miguel E. Abed spin to gradually proceeds an energy advantage.

However, when it appeared as though Wehrlein was ready to make his play for a first Formula E win for him and Porsche – the Stuttgart car ruled from victory in the Saturday race for not declaring tyre typecasting – he made a small error that forfeit him 1.5s.

On the run into Turn 7, which has unprotected out drivers all weekend, he suffered a slight lose at the noon but was hurt increasingly when he washed wide over the marbles and compromised his tyres.

That unliable Mortara to streak through to a well-executed 2.296s triumph, marking a return to the top step without victory in Hong Kong in 2019 and extracting a 10-point cocoon atop the standings.

Wehrlein personal second – but is under investigation then for suspected maximum power over use – despite seeming to lose the strategy wrestle with Rowland early on.

The pole-sitting Brit made a strong launch while Wehrlein was slow away, which gave Rowland zoetic space into Turn 1 as Mortara pounced virtually the Porsche under braking.

Rowland then made two successive and very early plays to vivify his wade mode, initially rejoining the spin in fourth and getting unprotected overdue Wehrlein, despite gaining the largest part of 0.5s through the joker lap diversion to tropical to the German.

It looked as though Rowland would stay put in second for the elapsing until a mistake at Turn 10 meant he clonked the wall and dropped.

That forfeiture left him prey to the Envision Virgin Racing machine of rookie Nick Cassidy, who leapt by a handful of laps from home for the Kiwi to earn a first Formula E podium.

Rowland hung on to fourth without taking late lamister whoopee into Turn 11 when he locked up and nearly tagged Cassidy into a spin.

The BMW Andretti contingent was led by Jake Dennis in fifth, the rookie coming out on top of a scrappy wrestle for points superiority of Alexander Lynn.

With several of the cars delivering razzmatazz banners from brushes with the wall, Maximilian Guenther secured seventh superiority of Jean-Eric Vergne.

The DS Techeetah racer looked sound in fourth for much of the elapsing but spun at Turn 9 as he unfurled to use the regen braking paddle past the noon and unsettled the car.

Mitch Evans ran to ninth for Jaguar Racing and Saturday runner-up Rene Rast completed a remarkable climb from last – when his qualifying lap was thrown out for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner – to requirement a point in 10th for Audi.

Robin Frijns was similarly deft at picking up places, rising from 21st without a series of collisions for his rivals.

Among them, Saturday victor Lucas di Grassi was handed a drivethrough penalty for eliminating Nyck de Vries without the Brazilian rejoined from the wade mode joker lap and whacked the Mercedes at Turn 9.

Di Grassi was moreover in the wars at Turn 7, hitting Sam Bird without Sebastien Buemi appeared to slow for Nissan e.dams, with Bird crossing the line 12th.

That left a bodywork-damaged Stoffel Vandoorne to score 12th over Buemi.

Reigning champion Antonio Felix da Costa made an uncharacteristic mistake when he ran wide at the veiling Turn 7 and smashed into the touchable wall heavily.

Although the suspension was buckled, the Portuguese, inward the race second in the championship, was worldly-wise to trickle his car to an exit road to stave a safety car.

Formula E Puebla E-Prix results – 32 laps