the beginning of Formula E World Cup is a monopoly of Porsche. Three victories for his engines, both for Pascal Wehrlein in arabian with factory equipment and Dennis in Mexico, with the Andretti motorized by the Germans, which also finished second in the two rounds of diriyah. Third in the second race of Arabia was Rene Rast with the McLarenwho gave the second joy to the oranges after the pole position Hughes for race 2.
The first position did not last long for McLaren, because evans he braked later in the first corner. But he didn’t have the pace to leave anyone behind (he finished seventh) and led everyone in single file. A train that he moved well wehrlein, reaching fourth place in the wake of the leader and the two McLarens. Calmer rolled Dennisthe Andretti He started sixth and fell to seventh in the early bars.
With the group in procession, the New Zealander was the first to activate attack mode, followed by Hughes and Rast. Wherleim patiently got into first in the blink of an eye, lengthening to activate the performance enhancement. The strategy was clear at that point, open a gap based on pace to ensure first place after going through attack mode again. He did it and stayed in front. And from there to the finish line, for his second victory of the year and the leadership of the World Championship, but not without having to fight for it: Dennis, leader of the World Cup before Arabia, came like a shot to second place and the strategy was modeled on that of Porsche, stretch to leave the McLaren behind and not put the position at risk. And the yellow flag caused by müller (Cupra), which left the differences nothing.
In the relaunched he threw with all the German to recover the space with the British, who with his second attack could not get hooked on the leader of the race and the World Championship. The last position of the podium was fought bird with the front wing of Jaguar off the hook, in a fight against Rast in which he defended himself by closing all the doors to give McLaren his first podium in the electrical competition.
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