Jakarta E prix 2 review

Written by Nina Rogerson

Maximilian Günther coverts pole position into a victory at Round 11 in Jakarta, taking the championship lead. Jake Dennis moves to within one point of Günther in the championship with another 2nd place podium as Mitch Evans in the Jaguar rounds off the podium.

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Jake Dennis was the one to take the lead during the first set of Attack Mode activations and Günther was happy to sit behind him until the time was right. Dennis went for his second Attack Mode first, so Günther was able to time it right and overtake the Brit to take his final 50kW boost on lap 18.

Günther was able to hold a comfortable lead for the rest of the race, stretching the gap between him and Dennis to almost 3 seconds when he crossed the finish line. 15 seconds behind Dennis, Mitch Evans crossed the finish line to take 3rd place.

The Nissan teammates of Sacha Fenestraz and Norman Nato each made late-race strides to take 4th and 5threspectively. It was a move from Fenestraz on Stoffel Vandoorne that let the Nissan pair through.

The pass from Fenestraz unsettled Vandoorne and pushed him back to 9th as Round 10’s winner Pascal Wehrlein, Antonio Delix Da Costa and Edoardo Mortara were able to move through on Fenestraz to take 6th, 7th and 8th.

Sebastien Buemi rounded out the top 10 to take a sole point for the Envision team as championship leader Nick Cassidy tried to pass Wehrlein and ended up pushing himself all the way to finish in 18th.

Dan Ticktum just missed out on the points finishing in 11th just ahead of the ABT Cupra teammates with Nico Müller finising in 12th and Robin Frijins finishing in 13th .

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Just behind Frijins in 14th was the first of the Mahindra Racing pair Lucas Di Grassi. René Rast in the Mclaren crossed the line in 15th with Jean-Eric Vergne and Roberto Merhi following in 16th and 17th respectively.

David Beckmann was one of the retirements as Di Grassi shoved him out of the way and sent him out of the race. Jake Hughes also pulled into the pits on the final lap and was unable to finish the race.

There were two non-starters in Jakarta this afternoon as Sergio Sette Câmara and Sam Bird both had issues with their cars that meant they could not start the race.