The 2019 Monaco ePrix was a Formula E electric car race held at the Circuit de Monaco on 11 May 2019. It was the ninth race of the 2018–19 Formula E season and the third edition of the event.
Report Background The Monaco ePrix was confirmed to be returning to the Formula E calendar on 4 November 2018. The previous edition was in 2017 as the event was held biennially, alternating with the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco. Originally, series founder and CEO Alejandro Agag had wanted to upgrade to using the full size Circuit de Monaco instead of the shorter version used in 2017 and 2015 centred around the Rainier III Nautical Stadium. However, plans for this fell through when the FIA objected to it in September 2018.
Going into the weekend, Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns lead the championship with 81 points, a 1 point lead over Techeetah's André Lotterer with BMW Andretti's António Félix da Costa down in 3rd with 70 points. In the team's standings, Techeetah lead with 142 points followed behind by Envision Virgin with 135 and defending constructors champions, Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler down in 3rd with 129.
After the previous round in Paris, three drivers were left with three place grid penalties for qualifying for causing collisions. They were Jerome D'Ambrosio who collided with Frijns's team mate Sam Bird, Edoardo Mortara who collided with Jaguar's Alex Lynn and Oliver Rowland who collided with Alexander Sims.
Classification Qualifying Driver Team Time Gap 122 Oliver Rowlande.Dams-Nissan50.021 –3,225 Jean-Éric VergneTecheetah-DS50.042 +0.0211320 Mitch EvansJaguar50.112 +0.09112494 Pascal WehrleinMahindra50.128 +0.1072519 Felipe MassaVenturi50.218 +0.1974623 Sébastien Buemie.Dams-Nissan50.234 +0.2135727 Alexander SimsAndretti-BMW 50.351 –683 Alex LynnJaguar50.370 +0.0197928 António Félix da CostaAndretti-BMW50.375 +0.024 8107 José María LópezDragon-Penske50.432 +0.0819115 Stoffel VandoorneHWA-Venturi50.451 +0.10010124 Robin FrijnsVirgin-Audi50.498 +0.147111311 Lucas di GrassiAudi50.502 +0.15113146 Maximilian GüntherDragon-Penske50.514 +0.16322152 Sam BirdVirgin-Audi50.526 +0.175141616 Oliver TurveyNIO50.578 +0.227151764 Jérôme d'AmbrosioMahindra50.601 +0.250191866 Daniel AbtAudi50.602 +0.251161948 Edoardo MortaraVenturi50.618 +0.267212017 Gary PaffettHWA-Venturi50.664 +0.31317 218 Tom DillmannNIO50.811 +0.460182236 André LottererTecheetah-DS 51.018 +0.66720Source: Notes: – Oliver Rowland set the fastest time and received three points for pole position but received a three-place grid penalty for colliding with Alexander Sims in the Paris ePrix. Therefore, he started in third place and Jean-Éric Vergne started in first place. – Oliver Rowland, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Edoardo Mortara received three place grid penalties for causing a collision in the previous race in Paris – Mitch Evans received a 10-place grid penalty after a qualifying infringement and reached his third reprimand. – Maximilian Günther received a 10-place grid penalty after speeding under Full Course Yellow during FP1 and reached his third reprimand.
Race Driver Team Time/Retired Points 125 Jean-Éric VergneTecheetah-DS5146:05.547125 222 Oliver Rowlande.Dams-Nissan51+0.201318+3 319 Felipe MassaVenturi51+1.261415 494 Pascal WehrleinMahindra51+1.439212+1 523 Sébastien Buemie.Dams-Nissan51+6.215510 620 Mitch EvansJaguar51+16.213128 736 André LottererTecheetah-DS51+16.848206 83 Alex LynnJaguar51+18.11274 95 Stoffel VandoorneHWA-Venturi51+18.551102 107 José María LópezDragon-Penske51+18.86091 1164 Jérôme d'AmbrosioMahindra51 +21.48819 1217 Gary PaffettHWA-Venturi51 +21.853 17 1327 Alexander SimsAndretti-BMW51 +26.9346 148 Tom DillmannNIO51 +31.86118 1566 Daniel AbtAudi51 +49.40016 162 Sam BirdVirgin-Audi50Puncture14 174 Robin FrijnsVirgin-Audi46Collision11 Ret16 Oliver TurveyNIO32Collision15 Ret11 Lucas di GrassiAudi31Collision13 Ret48 Edoardo MortaraVenturi29Technical21 Ret6 Maximilian GüntherDragon-Penske29Accident22 DSQ28 António Félix da CostaAndretti-BMW51Power usage8Source: Notes: – Daniel Abt received a drive through penalty converted into a 33-second time penalty for causing a collision. – António Félix da Costa originally finished sixth, but was disqualified for exceeding power usage over 200kW. – Pole position. – Fastest lap.
Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings +/– Driver Points 5 1 Jean-Éric Vergne 87 2 André Lotterer 86 2 3 Robin Frijns 81 1 4 António Félix da Costa 70 1 5 Lucas di Grassi 70
Teams' Championship standings +/– Constructor Points 1 DS Techeetah 173 2 Virgin-Audi 135 3 Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler 129 4 Mahindra 116 2 5 e.Dams-Nissan 99
Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
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