The 2020 Marrakesh ePrix was a Formula E electric car race held at Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan in Marrakesh on 29 February 2020. The race was a replacement for the 2020 Hong Kong ePrix, which was cancelled due to pro-democracy protests.

Report

Background On 15 June 2019, Formula E announced the provisional calendar for the 2019–20 season, in which Marrakesh was not included. The final calendar, which was revealed in October, saw multiple date changes with Marrakesh coming in to replace Hong Kong. Marrakesh would also host the third annual rookie test a day after the event, where each team got to nominate two drivers who have not officially competed in the series.

Schedule changes Free Practice 1 was moved to Friday afternoon due low visibility issues from sunrise during the first practice session in last year's event. The 2020 race held 47 days later on the calendar (February 29) compared to the 2019 race (January 12), an earlier sunrise and later sunset in late February compared to early January.

Rookie Test

The traditional rookie test took place the day after the race.

Classification

Qualifying Group draw Group 1 EVA () SIM (2) DAC (3) VAN (4) DIG (5) BIR (6) Group 2 ROW (7) GUE (8) MOR (9) LOT (10) DEV (11) JEV (12) Group 3 BUE (13) WEH (14) FRI (15) CAL (16) ABT (17) DAM (18) Group 4 MAS (19) HAR (20) TUR (21) MUL (22) JAN (23) QMA (24) Driver Team 1 13 António Félix da Costa Techeetah-DS 1:17.640 1:17.158 1 2 28 Maximilian Günther Andretti-BMW 1:17.562 1:17.227 2 3 36 André Lotterer Porsche 1:17.582 1:17.253 3 4 17 Nyck de Vries Mercedes 1:17.743 1:17.590 4 5 48 Edoardo Mortara Venturi-Mercedes 1:17.631 1:17.803 5 6 23 Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Nissan 1:17.779 1:17.811 6 7 64 Jérôme d'Ambrosio Mahindra 1:17.798 7 8 27 Alexander Sims Andretti-BMW 1:17.830 8 9 22 Oliver Rowland e.dams-Nissan 1:17.839 9 10 51 James Calado Jaguar 1:17.867 10 11 25 Jean-Éric Vergne Techeetah-DS 1:17.928 11 12 6 Brendon Hartley Dragon-Penske 1:17.944 12 13 11 Lucas di Grassi Audi 1:17.958 13 14 2 Sam Bird Virgin-Audi 1:18.064 14 15 94 Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra 1:18.069 15 16 7 Nico Müller Dragon-Penske 1:18.203 16 17 5 Stoffel Vandoorne Mercedes 1:18.218 17 18 66 Daniel Abt Audi 1:18.229 18 19 3 Oliver Turvey NIO 1:18.313 19 20 19 Felipe Massa Venturi-Mercedes 1:18.675 20 21 33 Ma Qinghua NIO 1:19.359 21 NC 4 Robin Frijns Virgin-Audi 1:27.444 22 NC 18 Neel Jani Porsche 1:32.690 23 NC 20 Mitch Evans Jaguar no time 24Source:

Notes:  – Robin Frijns and Neel Jani broke the 110% rule as their qualifying laps were cancelled due to them not respecting the homologated throttle pedal map. The Stewards gave them permission to start the race from the back of the grid.  – Mitch Evans did not enter his qualifying lap before the time had run out. The Stewards gave him permission to start the race from the back of the grid.

Race Drivers who scored points are denoted in bold.

Driver Team Time/Retired Points 1 13 António Félix da Costa Techeetah-DS 34 46:52.757 1 25+3 2 28 Maximilian Günther Andretti-BMW 34 +11.427 2 18+1 3 25 Jean-Éric Vergne Techeetah-DS 34 +12.034 11 15 4 23 Sébastien Buemi e.dams-Nissan 34 +12.282 6 12 5 48 Edoardo Mortara Venturi-Mercedes 34 +15.657 5 10 6 20 Mitch Evans Jaguar 34 +16.335 24 8+1 7 11 Lucas di Grassi Audi 34 +18.706 13 6 8 36 André Lotterer Porsche 34 +19.498 3 4 9 22 Oliver Rowland e.dams-Nissan 34 +20.126 9 2 10 2 Sam Bird Virgin-Audi 34 +20.295 14 1 11 17 Nyck de Vries Mercedes 34 +20.557 4 12 4 Robin Frijns Virgin-Audi 34 +22.373 22 13 64 Jérôme d'Ambrosio Mahindra 34 +22.785 7 14 66 Daniel Abt Audi 34 +25.080 18 15 5 Stoffel Vandoorne Mercedes 34 +25.969 17 16 51 James Calado Jaguar 34 +26.528 10 17 19 Felipe Massa Venturi-Mercedes 34 +27.476 20 18 18 Neel Jani Porsche 34 +44.476 23 19 6 Brendon Hartley Dragon-Penske 34 +49.002 12 20 7 Nico Müller Dragon-Penske 34 +53.075 16 21 3 Oliver Turvey NIO 34 +59.969 19 22 94 Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra 34 +1:13.414 15 23 33 Ma Qinghua NIO 33 +1 lap 21 Ret 27 Alexander Sims Andretti-BMW 33 Driveshaft 8Source:

Notes:  – Pole position.  – Fastest in group stage.  – Fastest lap.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings +/– Driver Points 2 1 António Félix da Costa 67 1 2 Mitch Evans 56 (–11) 1 3 Alexander Sims 46 (–21) 4 4 Maximilian Günther 44 (–23) 5 Lucas di Grassi 38 (–29)

Teams' Championship standings +/– Constructor Points 3 1 Techeetah-DS 98 1 2 Andretti-BMW 90 (–8) 1 3 Jaguar 66 (–32) 1 4 e.dams-Nissan 57 (–41) 2 5 Mercedes 56 (–42)

Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Footnotes

References

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