Marrakesh ePrix: Buemi tops red-flagged second practice

Renault e.dams driver Buemi's time of 1m20.599s was 0.235s quicker than his nearest challenger, Mahindra's Felix Rosenqvist, with Techeetah's Jean-Eric Vergne finishing third.

After the session however, Buemi revealed a back problem he has been suffering since Friday, which forced him to miss car-changing practice.

Meanwhile, NextEV's Oliver Turvey's laptime of 1m21.453s meant the top four all managed to beat the quickest qualifying time of 1m21.457s set by Jose Maria Lopez in WTCC at the track earlier in the year.

The session came to an abrupt end after DS Virgin's Bird crashed out at Turn 8 with just over three minutes remaining, the British driver ending up 11th.

Inside the top 10, Faraday Future Dragon Racing's Loic Duval was fifth, with ABT Schaeffler Audi's Daniel Abt sixth - making it six different cars in the top six.

NextEV's Nelson Piquet Jr ran in the top three for majority of the session but eventually finished seventh, ahead of lead Andretti of Antonio Felix da Costa.

FP1 pacesetter Lucas di Grassi was ninth, having survived couple of spins during the session, while Mahindra's Nick Heidfeld completed the top 10.

Meanwhile, the Jaguar duo of Mitch Evans and Adam Carroll were 14th and 20th respectively, while Lopez, the only driver to have prior experience of the Marrakesh track, was 15th in the second DS Virgin car.

FP2 results:

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap
1	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	16	1'20.599
2	Felix Rosenqvist	Mahindra Racing	10	1'20.834	0.235
3	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	15	1'21.209	0.610
4	Oliver Turvey	NextEV	15	1'21.453	0.854
5	Loic Duval	Dragon Racing	12	1'21.549	0.950
6	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	15	1'21.585	0.986
7	Nelson Piquet Jr.	NextEV	13	1'21.731	1.132
8	Antonio Felix da Costa	Andretti Autosport	12	1'21.775	1.176
9	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	16	1'21.776	1.177
10	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing	9	1'21.825	1.226
11	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	12	1'21.913	1.314
12	Maro Engel	Venturi	16	1'22.339	1.740
13	Ma Qing Hua	Techeetah	15	1'22.365	1.766
14	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	14	1'22.591	1.992
15	Jose Maria Lopez	Virgin Racing	9	1'22.654	2.055
16	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Dragon Racing	16	1'22.904	2.305
17	Nicolas Prost	DAMS	16	1'23.048	2.449
18	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi	13	1'23.387	2.788
19	Robin Frijns	Andretti Autosport	9	1'23.455	2.856
20	Adam Carroll	Jaguar Racing	13	1'24.341	3.742