Nick Cassidy leads the way in practice for the inaugural CapeTownEPrix, beating Edoardo Mortara across the two FormulaE sessions. Full report and results:
Although warm at 22 degrees C, the session began under slightly overcast conditions as the morning cloud was yet to burn away.
The Nissan driver’s time stood for about two more minutes before another flurry of quick laps, and Mortara fired his way back to the top with a 1m10.034s. Fenestraz then returned to the top with a 1m09.022s, creating a Nissan-powered top three, until Sam Bird shattered the Japanese firm’s stranglehold with a 1m08.550s. His team-mate Mitch Evans followed that up with a pair of purple sectors in the final two-thirds of the lap to go second in the order.
Antonio Felix da Costa was seventh-quickest from Gunther, with Wehrlein and Fenestraz completing the top 10. Hughes placed his McLaren onto the top with 1m13.229s, moments before a red flag; Sebastien Buemi crashed on the exit of Turn 9 along the waterfront, surfing into the wall to tear off his right-rear wheel.
Bird briefly hovered above Jaguar team-mate Evans to head the session, but his tenure was fleeting as Gunther poked in a 1m11.612s.
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