Sunday 13 March 2016

Anthony's thoughts: ePrix Mexico

Wow, i gotta say, it was fun, but it may be intense and controversial at the end.

It all started during a Qualification, Jérôme d'Ambrosio (driver in Team Dragon) took a pole position for a good record and gain 3 points. Also Nelson Piquet Jr was crashed and he had to start to the bottom grid.

In the race, i was expect that d'Ambrosio will stay in the lead, but then Lucas di Grassi (from ABT Schaeffler Audi) passed him for the battle in the lead (or not?). Meanwhile, Antonio Felix Da Costa had suffered a penalty with 10 seconds pit, got a black with orange circle flag for going in pit earlier. But not before he got crashed from losing his control.

At the near end, Sebastian Buemi and Nicolas Prost from E.DAMS, d'Ambrosio and Daniel Abt (also from Schaeffler) are fighting each other in the second place, especially with a frustration radio voice with Buemi and d'Ambrosio (with "The F*** is he doing?!"). I mean, yes, it is pretty hard for performing with electronic cars (depends on the manufacture sparks) to passing at opponents. I mean, d'Ambrosio would've end up crashing at E.DAMS for a huge risk. (And before you ask, yes, there was a part where Buemi accidentally touch at d'Ambrosio's back.)

At the end, the so call "winner" is Lucas di Grassi. But i say "winner", its because he was Disqualified because his car was found to be underweight, in other words, he cheated. So the winner goes to Jérôme d'Ambrosio, the second and third place is Sebastian Buemi and Nicolas Prost, i think this is the second time we have two drivers in the same team to the podium (The first time was Team Dragon in 2nd round of ePrix London in 2015.). As for the fastest lap, d'Ambrosio was supposed to have one, but because of a battle of second place where he drove outside of line for a cutting-corner, it belongs to Prost.

Like i said, it was fun, but it might be a huge risk at the ending. Next time, we're going to my favorite track at April 2nd, Long Beach, California. ;)

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