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Race details[1][2]
Date
12 January 2019 (2019-01-12)
Official name
2019 Marrakesh E-Prix
Location
Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan, Agdal, Marrakesh
Course
Street Circuit
Course length
2.971 kilometres (1.846 mi)
Distance
31 laps, 92.101 km (57.229 mi)
Weather
Sunny
Pole position
Driver
Sam Bird
Envision Virgin Racing
Time
1:17.851
Fastest lap
Driver
Lucas di Grassi
Audi
Time
1:20.296 on lap 31
Podium
First
Jérôme d'Ambrosio
Mahindra Racing
Second
Robin Frijns
Envision Virgin Racing
Third
Sam Bird
Envision Virgin Racing
Lap leaders
Motor car race
The 2019 Marrakesh ePrix (formally the 2019 Marrakesh E-Prix) was a Formula E electric car race held at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in the Agdal district of Marrakesh, Morocco on 12 January 2019. It was the second round of the 2018–19 Formula E Championship and the third Marrakesh ePrix. Jérôme d'Ambrosio of Mahindra won the 31-lap race after starting from tenth place. Second place went to Virgin's Robin Frijns and his teammate Sam Bird was third.
Bird won the pole position by setting the fastest lap in qualifying and held the lead despite Techeetah's Jean-Éric Vergne clattering into his left-hand sidepod and spinning 180 degrees on the race's opening lap. António Félix da Costa of BMW Andretti passed Bird to move into first place on lap ten and pulled away to lead the following fourteen laps until a collision on lap 26 with his teammate Alexander Sims careened him into a barrier. That promoted d'Ambrosio into the lead, which he maintained through a safety car period; he held off Frijns on the final lap to win by 0.143 seconds. It was d'Ambrosio's third career victory and his first without having inherited the win through driver disqualifications.
D'Ambrosio's victory put him in the lead of the Drivers' Championship with 40 points. Félix da Costa fell to second and Vergne, who recovered to finish fifth in the race, dropped to third. Vergne's teammate André Lotterer moved up a place to fourth and Frijns moved from twelfth to fifth. In the Teams' Championship, Techeetah led with 47 points, Mahindra and BMW were tied for second as Virgin progressed to fourth with eleven races left in the season.
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