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Formula E Long Beach ePrix
Long Beach ePrix: Abt shocks by beating Buemi in second practice
Last year’s Long Beach pole winner Daniel Abt knocked points leader Sebastien Buemi off his perch in the second free practice session around the famed American street circuit.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Apr 2, 2016, 7:14 PM
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Abt, who has promised to sing a Taylor Swift song naked on the grid if he wins a race, lapped the track in 56.778s – 0.174s faster than session one pacesetter Buemi’s Renault e.dams machine.
The strong showing by both Abt Audi cars vindicated Alain Prost’s pre-session statement that the previously-dominant Renaults “will have a little bit of pressure this weekend, I think.”
Story of the session
In the half-hour practice, the last running ahead of qualifying, there was a rush of full-power 200kW laptimes early on.
Buemi set a benchmark 58.903s at 170kW before Virgin's Jean-Eric Vergne went P1 on 58.099s on 200kW.
Mahindra's Nick Heidfeld very briefly topped the times before then Stephane Sarrazin lapped in 57.408s. Teammate Mike Conway jumped up to P2 to make it a Venturi 1-2, before clipping the wall at Turn 5.
Nico Prost jumped to the top of the times with 12 minutes remaining on a 57.352s qualifying sim with his Renault e.dams, before teammate Buemi regained his stranglehold on proceedings with 56.952s.
Di Grassi grabbed second position, just 0.092s off Buemi’s best time.
Abt then set P1 on 56.778s with 7 minutes remaining, a time nobody was able to beat.
Behind Buemi and di Grassi, Antonio Felix da Costa was fourth for Team Aguri from Robin Frijns, Sam Bird and Prost.
Salvador Duran, Vergne and Frijns (twice) went down T1 escape road, forced to make spin turns, while Heidfeld managed to swerve between the tyres after overshooting.
FP2 Results:
**Pos.** **Driver** **Team** **Time** **Gap** **Laps** 1  Daniel Abt  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 56.778 18 2  Sebastien Buemi  Renault e.Dams 56.952 0.174 22 3  Lucas di Grassi  ABT Schaeffler Audi Sport 57.044 0.266 18 4  Antonio Felix da Costa  Team Aguri 57.155 0.377 18 5  Robin Frijns  Andretti Formula E Team 57.161 0.383 19 6  Sam Bird  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 57.212 0.434 19 7  Nicolas Prost  Renault e.Dams 57.259 0.481 23 8  Bruno Senna  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 57.377 0.599 22 9  Stephane Sarrazin  Venturi Formula E Team 57.408 0.63 19 10  Jerome d'Ambrosio  Dragon Racing Formula E Team 57.457 0.679 19 11  Simona de Silvestro  Andretti Formula E Team 57.682 0.904 22 12  Loic Duval  Dragon Racing Formula E Team 57.757 0.979 21 13  Nelson Piquet Jr.  NEXTEV TCR Formula E Team 57.802 1.024 20 14  Mike Conway  Venturi Formula E Team 57.862 1.084 16 15  Nick Heidfeld  Mahindra Racing Formula E Team 57.899 1.121 14 16  Jean Eric Vergne  DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team 58.099 1.321 16 17  Oliver Turvey  NEXTEV TCR Formula E Team 58.297 1.519 20 18  Salvador Duran  Team Aguri 59.214 2.436 18
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