Paris ePrix: Conway beats Vergne by 0.010s in final practice

The Venturi driver peaked on a 1m01.386s to head Vergne DS Virgin entry, by a mere 0.010s.

Sam Bird’s committed early lap of 1m02.090s set the pace for much of the early running, but he damaged his DS Virgin DSV-01 soon after when he touched the wall. The contact damaged his left rear suspension and he returned to the pits.

The British driver went on to finish third after setting a best of 1m01.587s in is other car. The session saw Stephane Sarrazin be the first person to hit the wall when he lost his Venturi car on the approach to turn eight.

The Frenchman smote the wall and damaged the left front suspension and front wing but he was able to make it back to his pit.

Sarrazin made amends by immediately going temporarily quickest on a 1m02.052s in his other Venturi VM200-FE-01 car, before he was shuffled down the order to end up fifth.

Title protagonist Lucas di Grassi was fourth, while title rival Sebastien Buemi was down in 13th after not setting a 200kW lap.

Bruno Senna's strong run continued as he finished sixth ahead of Aguri's Antonio Felix da Costa and Nico Prost.

Daniel Abt ended ninth fastest with Dragon's Loic Duval completing the top 10, as teams get ready for qualifying action, later in the day.

As well as Sarrazin and Bird incidents, Abt again ran off in to the turn eight escape road, and Mahinra's Senna did likewise.

Robin Frijns spun his Andretti SRT01-e harmlessly at one of the chicanes.

The qualifying groups are:

Group One: Buemi, Conway, Heidfeld, Duval

Group Two: Abt, Di Grassi, Frijns, Piquet Jr, Vergne

Group Three: De Silvestro, Prost, D'Ambrosio, Senna, Turvey

Group Four: Bird, Da Costa, Qing Hua

FP2 results:

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Mike Conway	Venturi	1:01.386		23
2	Jean-Eric Vergne	Virgin Racing	1:01.396	+0.010	21
3	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	1:01.587	+0.201	14
4	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	1:01.621	+0.235	20
5	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi	1:01.715	+0.329	20
6	Bruno Senna	Mahindra Racing	1:01.841	+0.455	17
7	Antonio Felix da Costa	Team Aguri	1:01.924	+0.538	18
8	Nicolas Prost	DAMS	1:01.994	+0.608	20
9	Robin Frijns	Andretti Autosport	1:02.038	+0.652	13
10	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	1:02.143	+0.757	20
11	Simona de Silvestro	Andretti Autosport	1:02.183	+0.797	16
12	Loic Duval	Dragon Racing	1:02.203	+0.817	22
13	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	1:02.258	+0.872	21
14	Nelson Piquet Jr.	China Racing	1:02.275	+0.889	20
15	Nick Heidfeld	Mahindra Racing	1:02.481	+1.095	12
16	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Dragon Racing	1:02.737	+1.351	24
17	Oliver Turvey	China Racing	1:03.267	+1.881	24
18	Ma Qing Hua	Team Aguri	1:03.407	+2.021	24