Race 6 of 10 of the 2015–16 Formula E Championship
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Layout of the Long Beach Formula E street circuit
Race details[1][2]
Date
April 2 (2-04), 2016
Official name
2016 Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix[3]
Location
Long Beach Street Circuit, Long Beach, California
Course
Street circuit
Course length
2.131 km (1.324 miles)
Distance
41 laps, 87.37 km (54,29 miles)
Weather
Temperatures reaching up to 77 °F (25 °C); wind speeds approaching speeds of 12.7 miles per hour (20.4 km/h)[4]
Pole position
Driver
Sam Bird
Virgin
Time
57.261
Fastest lap
Driver
Sébastien Buemi
e.Dams-Renault
Time
57.938 (lap record) on lap 28
Podium
First
Lucas di Grassi
Audi Sport ABT
Second
Stéphane Sarrazin
Venturi
Third
Daniel Abt
Audi Sport ABT
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2016 Long Beach ePrix (formally the 2016 Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix) was a Formula E electric car race held on 2 April 2016, before a crowd of 17,000 spectators, at the Long Beach Street Circuit, in Long Beach, California. It was the sixth round of the 2015–16 Formula E Championship, and the final Long Beach ePrix. The 41-lap race was won by Lucas di Grassi for Audi Sport ABT from second place. Venturi driver Stéphane Sarrazin finished second, with Di Grassi's teammate Daniel Abt third.
Sam Bird of Virgin began from the pole position after the fastest driver in qualifying Team Aguri's António Félix da Costa was sent to the rear of the grid for an illegal tire pressure. Bird led for the first 11 laps until he was overtaken by di Grassi on the 12h lap. Di Grassi remained at the front of the field through the mandatory pit stop phase to switch into a second car, but his four-second lead was reduced to nothing when the safety car was deployed on lap 35 after NextEV driver Nelson Piquet Jr. crashed. However, di Grassi kept the lead at the rolling restart to take his second victory of the season, and the third of his career.
The result promoted di Grassi to the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 101 points, after previous leader Sébastien Buemi of e.Dams-Renault scored no points in Long Beach. Bird and Jérôme d'Ambrosio for Dragon maintained third and fourth. Sarrazin's second-place finish moved him from eighth to fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Audi Sport ABT reduced e.Dams-Renault's lead to six points, and Dragon fell from second to third with four races left in the season.
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^"2015 Long Beach ePrix". Racing-Reference. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
^"Faraday Future named as title sponsor for Long Beach ePrix". FIA Formula E. March 28, 2016. Archived from the original on March 30, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2020.
^"Weather information for the 2016 Long Beach ePrix". Old Farmer's Almanac. Archived from the original on September 1, 2018. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
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