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Formula E Paris ePrix
Paris ePrix: Buemi heads di Grassi in first practice
Sebastien Buemi set the pace in the first track running for the inaugural Paris ePrix, later today.
Sam Smith
Edited: Apr 23, 2016, 7:48 AM
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The Renault e.dams driver set a best lap of 1m02.841s to head title rival Lucas Di Grassi who finished 0.140s further back, in the first practice session this morning.
Buemi, who is one point behind di Grassi heading in to the Paris race, set the best lap using the full 200kW qualifying power in his Renault z.e15.
Stephane Sarrazin was third in his Venturi ahead of Sam Bird (DS virgin) who set his time on the final lap.
Sarrazin’s teammate Mike Conway placed fifth with the first Dragon car of Loic Duval at sixth ahead of Daniel Abt.
The top 10 was rounded off by Mahindra duo Bruno Senna and Nick Heidfeld at eighth and ninth, with reigning champion Nelson Piquet Jr. 10th.
The top 14 cars during the session were separated by just 0.9s
Mexico ePrix winner Jerome D’Ambrosio stopped his Dragon Racing car at turn eight midway through the session bringing out a red flag to retrieve the car.
Nicolas Prost, Senna, Buemi and Abt all had trips down the escape road during the session. Abt almost collected Prost upon returning to the track but contact was just avoided.
New Formula E driver Ma Qing Hua suffered a nightmare start in his Team Aguri car as he initially failed to leave the pitlane in one of his car.
The first Chinese born driver, eventually set a time, to finish 17th, as he set about learning the Spark-Renault package.
FP1 results:
PosDriverTeamTimeGapLaps 1 
Sébastien Buemi 
DAMS 1:02.841 26 2 
Lucas di Grassi 
Team Abt 1:02.981 +0.140 26 3 Stéphane Sarrazin 
Venturi 1:03.032 +0.191 24 4 
Sam Bird Virgin Racing 1:03.099 +0.258 28 5 Mike Conway Venturi 1:03.228 +0.387 24 6 Loic Duval 
Dragon Racing 1:03.365 +0.524 21 7 Daniel Abt Team Abt 1:03.474 +0.633 25 8 Bruno Senna 
Mahindra Racing 1:03.570 +0.729 32 9 Nick Heidfeld Mahindra Racing 1:03.611 +0.770 25 10 Nelson Piquet Jr. 
China Racing 1:03.618 +0.777 28 11 Jean-Eric Vergne Virgin Racing 1:03.640 +0.799 24 12 
Robin Frijns Andretti Autosport 1:03.682 +0.841 22 13 
Antonio Felix da Costa 
Team Aguri 1:03.734 +0.893 17 14 Simona de Silvestro Andretti Autosport 1:03.789 +0.948 27 15 Nicolas Prost DAMS 1:03.855 +1.014 28 16 Oliver Turvey China Racing 1:03.903 +1.062 31 17 Ma Qing Hua Team Aguri 1:05.932 +3.091 13 18 
Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon Racing 1:07.352 +4.511 14
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