Berlin ePrix 2024 – Race 1: After Monaco, Jaguar secures another victory with Nick Cassidy

Already a winner in Monaco two weeks ago, Jaguar did it again by placing its two cars in first and fourth place in the first race of the Berlin ePrix, with Nick Cassidy winning for the second time this season after Diriyah at the beginning of the year.

At the end of the qualifying session, it was Edoardo Mortara who secured pole position and therefore starts in first place ahead of the two DS Penske of Stoffel Vandoorne and Jean-Eric Vergne. The Swiss driver maintains the lead for three laps until the activation of his first Attack Mode.

A first safety car is deployed on the 11th lap after Joel Erikson’s off-track excursion, a replacement driver for Envision Racing on the occasion of this Berlin ePrix. At the end of the neutralization, Vergne, then in the lead, relinquishes control to Pascal Wehrlein before several incidents occur in the pack.

Several drivers are affected by this, including Stoffel Vandoorne, Lucas di Grassi, and Maximilian Günther, whose Maserati’s immobilization requires the safety car to re-enter the track for a second time around ten laps from the finish. These two neutralizations will result in the addition of six laps at the end of the race to the forty initially scheduled.

This race is becoming crazy as the checkered flag approaches, as many drivers can still claim victory. It is also marked by spectacular comebacks like those of Nick Cassidy, Oliver Rowland, or Stoffel Vandoorne. It is finally the first named who wins ahead of Vergne and Rowland, and who takes the lead of the championship.

The second race of the Berlin ePrix will take place tomorrow Sunday and will start at 3pm.

Berlin ePrix 2024 Ranking – Race 1

Driver championship standings

Team standings