He showed up for the first race of the London ePrix, at home, with the accounts in their favor and the possibility of being champion without waiting any longer and, after experiencing continuous suffering in a chaotic career, Jake Dennis was able to raise his arms as the new Formula E champion. He finished as he came out, second, but he went through everything in between (two red flags) and survived each war, and had them with Cassidy (who he abandoned) or the Porsches, while Evans threatened to delay his alirón with victory, although without success . Merhi was 16th in the Mahindra.
Good teamwork, that’s what was seen at the start. Dennis started sandwiched between the Envision of Cassidy and Buemi, and they did not miss the opportunity. The first closed the Briton and the second made an aggressive interior in the first corners to demote the leader to third place. The green team’s initial strategy worked perfectly, but it didn’t take long for things to go wrong for them in a race in which much more happened than the narrowness of the London circuit made us expect.
When the attack modes came into play, war raged between the top contenders for the title. The two met again, Dennis mercilessly passing Cassidy, who would not sit still and would pass him back on the brink of touch. Maneuvers with a separation of millimeters that were what the New Zealander would lack later with Buemi. What the Swiss gave him at the start, he took away later, when he did not let him pass and caused damage to his front wing that forced him to retire. The Envision box was a drama.
Dennis lost a rival, but there was another with the intention of delaying his alirón: Evans. The one from Jaguar, who took pole position but started sixth (due to the penalty he had from Rome), took advantage of the events in the front group and his great pace to lead the race ahead of Buemi when the Safety Car to clear the asphalt of Cassidy’s remains. It would be the first, but not the last because, with seven laps to go, Fenestraz crashed his Nissan into the wall and joined the casualty list (along with Frijns, Vergne and Muller).
Between them, Dennis was attacked by the Porsches when he asked for the opposite (they share engines), he stopped Wehrlein (who later collided with Rast), but not Da Costa. That left him fourth and his boss, Michael Andretti, desperate. Four laps from the end, a red flag was drawn due to the number of years that had been on the circuit. It was a frantic sprint in which Dennis passed Buemi to be third, which made him champion, then the Swiss would cause a pileup and another break. Behind him, Evans won, Da Costa was penalized for a technical infraction and the champion would finish second ahead of Buemi. The celebration would match the anguish he endured.
London ePrix results 1
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