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Formula E Berlin ePrix
Berlin ePrix: Buemi heads Turvey in opening practice
Sebastien Buemi was fastest in the first practice session at Berlin ePrix after setting a best lap of 57.648s in his e.dams Renault car.
Sam Smith
Edited: May 21, 2016, 12:36 PM
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The Swiss, who trails Lucas Di Grassi by 11-points, with three races of the season remaining, was a full second ahead of the competition after being one of just two drivers to undertake a full power lap.
Oliver Turvey had been quickest for most of the session until Buemi’s late lap. The British driver set his best lap on a full-power 200kW lap and set a 58.690s lap in his NEXTEV TCR FormulaE 001.
Behind Turvey, championship leader di Grassi headed the 170kW powered lapped drivers with a late 58.916s lap.
The Brazilian briefly stopped on the track after setting his best time but was able to re-start his Abt Schaeffler FE01 car.
Nicolas Prost (e.dams) claimed fourth position ahead of Buenos Aires winner Sam Bird (DS Virgin) and Dragon Racing’s Loic Duval.
Rene Rast acquitted himself well in his first Formula E session as he took his Team Aguri Spark-Renault to 15th fastest, ahead of team mate Ma Qing Hua (18th) who was given a black and white flag for not respecting blue flags.
The first Dragon Racing car of Loic Duval finished sixth ahead of the first Venturi car of Mike Conway.
The top 10 was rounded by Jerome d'Ambrosio at eighth followed by Stephane Sarrazin and Daniel Abt.
Many of the drivers found the track surface complex as it is made up of different types of asphalt.
There were however few incidents in the 45-minute session with only Jean-Eric Vergne and Robin Frijns taking a harmless trip down the turn five escape road midway through the session.
Frijns had to take avoiding action in his Andretti Spark-Renault after Mahindra's Bruno Senna gently nudged the techpro barrier. The Brazilian continued without damage to his car.
FP1 results:
PosDriverTeamTime/GapLaps 1 
Sébastien Buemi 
DAMS 57.648 32 2 
Oliver Turvey 
China Racing +1.042 38 3 
Lucas di Grassi 
Team Abt +1.268 34 4 Nicolas Prost DAMS +1.520 31 5 Sam Bird Virgin Racing +1.588 26 6 Loic Duval 
Dragon Racing +1.607 33 7 Mike Conway 
Venturi +1.612 32 8 
Jérôme d'Ambrosio Dragon Racing +1.834 31 9 Stéphane Sarrazin Venturi +1.877 32 10 Daniel Abt Team Abt +1.935 35 11 Bruno Senna 
Mahindra Racing +1.952 31 12 Nelson Piquet Jr. China Racing +2.076 32 13 Jean-Eric Vergne Virgin Racing +2.141 28 14 Nick Heidfeld Mahindra Racing +2.436 25 15 René Rast 
Team Aguri +2.491 32 16 
Robin Frijns Andretti +2.900 26 17 Simona de Silvestro Andretti +3.198 30 18 Ma Qing Hua Team Aguri +3.477 32
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