Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Lucas Di Grassi Wins First Race in Double-header 2021 BMW i Berlin E-prix Presented by CBMM Niobium

AUDI SPORT ABT SCHAEFFLER
LUCAS DI GRASSI (BRA)
“To win the race here means a lot to me and Audi, I’m super happy. Everything is fully open going into tomorrow’s race, we’re going to try as hard as possible to win both races and I’m sure if we win tomorrow, we will be there to win the Championship.”ROKIT VENTURI RACING
EDOARDO MORTARA (CHE)
“Today was a great result for the team but also for me. It’s put us back in title contention for tomorrow’s race. We have to stay quite grounded and not be too happy because we still have to work a lot for tomorrow and hopefully we can celebrate more then. We have had really good races this year, we found a lot of race pace compared to last year and I’m always confident when we go racing. The problem is that Lucas Di Grassi is always very tough, he’s managing very well and unfortunately, I knew it was going to be difficult in the last laps to overtake. But I tried to put him under pressure and tried to push him to make a mistake which he didn’t, but we’re still very happy with P2 and let’s go on for tomorrow.”JAGUAR RACING
MITCH EVANS (NZL)
“It was a good race, we had strong pace throughout the whole race. It was just trying to find the right time to do the long attack. I think we timed it well, I just had to use up quite a bit of energy to do some of those overtakes and I think that hurt me a little in the end with Norman Nato fighting behind me. He did a great job, and I just hung on in the end. But it feels good to put ourselves back right in contention with the Championship. I’ll be in Group 1 tomorrow so that’s going to be tricky, but as some of the drivers proved today you can make it into Super Pole. We’re going to have to tune her up and go again tomorrow and hopefully, we have some strong pace to finish off the year.”

RACE RESULTS
FINAL CLASSIFICATION

1	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler	46:22.528	(25)
2	Edoardo Mortara	ROKiT Venturi Racing	+0.141s	(18)
3	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	+5.499s	(15)
4	Norman Nato	ROKiT Venturi Racing	+5.589s	(12)
5	Jake Dennis	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	+5.830s	(10)
6	Jean-Éric Vergne	DS TECHEETAH	+6.411s	(12)
7	António Félix da Costa	DS TECHEETAH	+6.777s	(6)
8	Maximilian Günther	BMW i Andretti Motorsport	+7.562s	(4)
9	René Rast	Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler	+7.798s	(3)
10	André Lotterer	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	+14.124s	(1)
11	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	+15.546s	(0)
12	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team	+16.214s	(0)
13	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	+16.814s	(0)
14	Nick Cassidy	Envision Virgin Racing	+16.917s	(0)
15	Robin Frijns	Envision Virgin Racing	+21.278s	(0)
16	Joel Eriksson	DRAGON / PENSKE AUTOSPORT	+23.666s	(0)
17	Alexander Sims	Mahindra Racing	+29.019s	(0)
18	Sérgio Sette Câmara	DRAGON / PENSKE AUTOSPORT	+30.962s	(0)
19	Oliver Turvey	NIO 333 FE Team	+33.199s	(0)
20	Alex Lynn	Mahindra Racing	+33.438s	(0)
21	Pascal Wehrlein	TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team	+33.781s	(0)
22	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes-EQ Formula E Team	+1 lap	(0)
X	Tom Blomqvist	NIO 333 FE Team	Not classified	(0)
DNF	Sam Bird	Jaguar Racing	DNF	(0)

 
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Sources: Formula E PR

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