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![]() The Rome E-Prix Circuit in 2023. | ||
Race Information | ||
Date | 16 July 2023 | |
E-Prix No. | 114 (14 of 2022/23) | |
Official Name | ![]() | |
Location | ![]() Esposizione Universale Roma, Rome, Italy | |
Format | 95 km / 60 min | |
Lap length | 3.380 km (2.100 mi) | |
Distance | 24 laps / 84.500 km (52.506 mi) | |
Qualifying Result | ||
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Team | ![]() | |
Time | 1:37.986 (124.181 km/h) | |
Fastest Lap | ||
Driver | ![]() | |
Team | ![]() | |
Fastest Lap | 1:40.482 on lap 24 | |
ePrix Result | ||
First | Second | Third |
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Winner Team | ![]() | |
Time | 45:04.323 (112.487 km/h) | |
ePrix Guide | ||
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The 2023 Rome E-Prix II, officially advertised as the 2023 Hankook Rome E-Prix II, was the fourteenth race of the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship staged at the Circuito Cittadino dell’EUR in Esposizione Universale Roma, Rome, Italy, on 16 July 2023.[1][2] The race would see Jake Dennis sweep to his second career Grand Slam in FE and the lead in the Championship, as his main title rivals Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy collided while all three were squabbling for the lead in the early stages of the race.[3]
Three of the four main title pretenders would feature heavily in qualifying, and it was Dennis who prevailed in the Final duel, defeating Cassidy by half a tenth in a fight that ebbed and flowed throughout.[4] Dennis' route to the Final had included challenges from Maximilian Günther and Norman Nato, while Cassidy had beaten Dan Ticktum and then Evans to secure his spot in the Final, while Sam Bird and Sébastien Buemi having also made it to the knockout stages.[4]
Much like Saturday's race it would be status quo at the head of the field when the lights went out, with Dennis sweeping into the lead from pole position unopposed, with Cassidy moving to block Nato, Evans, Bird and Günther who fired off in grid order.[3] There would be a bit more shuffling behind but with no major incidents off the grid, with Wehrlein remaining well outside of the points down in fifteenth, but crucially unscathed.[3]
The opening laps charged by relentlessly, with Evans scything past Nato on the second lap to setup a three-way fight for the lead among the top three in the Championship, with Dennis setting a strong pace from the front with Cassidy and Evans in tow.[3] Numerous times Dennis would be forced into a defensive line by Cassidy, but would not be broken, with Evans sitting and waiting in their wake waiting for it to all go wrong.[3]
Yet it was Evans who would make the ultimate mistake, when on lap three the #9 Jaguar pilot got caught out by Dennis and Cassidy both braking early for turn seven and lost the rear, resulting in Evans slamming into the rear of Cassidy and briefly riding over the back of the #37 Envision.[3] Evans landed heavily on the left-rear corner of his car while Cassidy was sent skating down the escape road, although both would continue as the Safety Car was scrambled as a precaution to clear debris from the left-hander.[3]
After a single tour the race resumed, with Cassidy now at the back of the field with seemingly only cosmetic damage to the top of his car, while Evans was half a lap behind having had a long stay in the pits for repairs.[3] The #9 Jaguar would only complete a couple more tours before Evans came in to retire the car, having no hope of catching back up to the rest of the field, as up front Dennis caed his getaway to dart into the lead ahead of Nato and Bird, while Ticktum had emerged from the melee in fourth ahead of Edoardo Mortara and Buemi.[3]
Dennis and Nato would be the first of the leaders to arm Attack Mode on lap seven, Dennis managing to retain the lead ahead of Bird, as Cassidy managed to reach the lower-end of the points with a lunge on Stoffel Vandoorne with a robust move at the hairpin.[3] Bird would then take his first AM taste and slip back behind Nato and a now fourth placed Buemi, who had battled past Mortara and then joined the Maseratis in leaping Ticktum, with the order stabilising until the second AM phase began a couple of laps later.[3]
Again Dennis and Nato would make the first move for AM, and again Dennis would manage to hold the lead, while Nato took advantage of the fact that Bird had got stuck behind Buemi for a couple of laps to hold second from the #10 Jaguar.[3] Bird was next to arm AM and would managed to hold third, although try as he might the Brit could not use the additional power to force his way past Nato, and as the race entered its final throes Dennis was able to eek away from the #17 Nissan as Nato worked hard to keep Bird at bay.[3]
Indeed, there would be no major changes to the order in the closing stages despite the fact that Bird had c.2% more energy than Nato throughout the second half of the race, with the changes instead coming the lower part of the field.[3] Among those was Wehrlein who quietly climbed into seventh with a series of moves and well timed use of AM, while Cassidy would lose out massively in the second AM sweep and drop to fifteenth, before coming up against a rolling road-block of André Lotterer who worked hard to keep his teammate Dennis' main title rival out of the points before he retired with a lap to go.[3]
Dennis, meanwhile, was in supreme form, and would set the fastest lap of the race (for a driver in the top ten) en-route to a potentially title deciding victory, becoming the first driver to claim a second Grand Slam in FE having led every lap from pole position.[3] Nato held firm to the chequered flag to keep Bird at bay and hold second, much to the Brit's ire, while Mortara led Buemi and Günther to the line after a three-way bruising scrap for fourth that ended in the Swiss-Italian pilot's favour in the #48 Maserati.[3] Wehrlein held seventh to keep his suddenly slim title hopes alive ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne, while Ticktum and Nico Müller rounded out the scorers.[3]
Background[]
There would be no changes to the entry or the Circuito Cittadino dell’EUR ahead of the second battle of Rome on Sunday, with all of those cars that were heavily damaged in the Saturday race having been repaired or rebuilt in time for the start of Sunday's free practice session.[1] There was similarly no change to the Attack Mode allocation, which remained at two activations lasting a total of eight minutes, while there was a slight surprise in terms of race distance, with a reduction of total planned laps to 24 instead of the usual format of the Sunday race being a couple of laps longer.[1]
The Monocoque Shuffle[]
There had been some negotiation and even a lottery to accomplish a full grid for Sunday's race, due to the fact that only the manufacturer backed teams had spare monocoques amid the general lack of spare parts that had plagued the 2022/23 season and an agreement by teams to limit the amonunt of freight they used.[5] The shuffle began with McLaren having had to borrow a monocoque from Porsche in order to rebuild Jake Hughes' car after qualifying, which had then led Porsche to have to loan NIO's spare monocoque after António Félix da Costa's example was found to have been too badly damaged in the Sam Bird triggered melee.[5] Bird and Edoardo Mortara, meanwhile, were able to use their respective teams' own spare monocoques after the shunt, Mortara's being the one shared between Maserati and DS Penske, while Sébastien Buemi had to resort to the spare Envision tub that had been sold to the team separately by Spark Racing Technologies.[5]
Cassidy Climb[]
Nick Cassidy would move to the top the Championship hunt with his podium finish in the first battle of Rome, as the entire Championship picture had shuffled as a result of Saturday's running. Jake Dennis had made way for the New Zealander, dropping five behind, while a maximum score for Mitch Evans had catapulted the Jaguar pilot up into third and twenty off the lead. Pascal Wehrlein, the Championship leader for most of the season, had fallen 31 points behind in fourth, with those four now in a class of their own, 33 ahead of Jean-Éric Vergne in fifth.
The Teams' Championship had also been shaken up as a result of the first Roman rumble, with Envision Racing heading into the second day in Rome with a ten point lead at the head of the hunt. Porsche had made way for the British squad, while Evans' maximum points score had pushed the factory Jaguar Racing squad into third and 30 points behind their customers leading the field. Avalanche Andretti were next up, 54 off the lead as the dark horses for the Championship title, while DS Penske rounded out the top five on 149 points.
Entry List[]
The full entry list for the 2023 Rome E-Prix II is displayed below:
Practice[]
FP3[]
Qualifying[]
Qualifying for the 2023 Rome E-Prix II would be conducted according to the knockout format, introduced ahead of season eight.[7] The field would be split into two groups of eleven drivers, based on Championship position, with each group then getting ten minutes on track to complete as many laps as they wished at 300 kW.[7] The fastest eight overall would then proceed to the knockout phase, now running at the maximum 350 kW qualifying mode, with the fastest from group A against the fourth fastest from group A and so on, until four drivers were left.[7]
Those four would move on to the Semi-Final, with the winner of A1/A4 taking on the victor of A2/A3, while the triumphant driver of B3/B2 would take on B4/B1's winner.[7] The winners from those duels would then go into the final, with the winner of that duel taking pole, while the runner-up would start from second, before any grid penalties were applied.[7]
Group A[]
Group B[]
Knockouts[]
Quarter Finals[]
Semi Finals[]
Final[]
Post Qualifying[]
The final qualifying result for the 2023 Rome E-Prix II are outlined below:
2023 Rome E-Prix II Qualifying Results | |||||||
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Final | |||||||
Heat | Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Time | Gap | Grid |
I | Win | 27 | ![]() |
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1:37.986 | — | 1 |
Lose | 37 | ![]() |
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1:38.057 | +0.071s | 2 | |
Semi-Finals | |||||||
Heat | Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Time | Gap | Grid |
I | Win | 37 | ![]() |
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1:38.056 | — | F |
Lose | 9 | ![]() |
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1:38.322 | +0.266s | 4 | |
II | Win | 27 | ![]() |
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1:38.087 | — | F |
Lose | 17 | ![]() |
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1:38.203 | +0.116s | 3 | |
Quarter Finals | |||||||
Heat | Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Time | Gap | Grid |
QF 1 | Win | 37 | ![]() |
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1:37.536 | — | SF |
Lose | 33 | ![]() |
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1:38.720 | +1.184s | 7 | |
QF 2 | Win | 9 | ![]() |
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1:37.946 | — | SF |
Lose | 10 | ![]() |
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1:38.445 | +0.499s | 5 | |
QF 3 | Win | 17 | ![]() |
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1:38.613 | — | SF |
Lose | 16 | ![]() |
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1:51.464 | +12.851s | 8 | |
QF 4 | Win | 27 | ![]() |
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1:38.179 | — | SF |
Lose | 7 | ![]() |
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1:38.655 | +0.476s | 6 |
Group Stage | |||||||
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Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Time | Gap | Grid | Group |
1st | 27 | ![]() |
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1:38.214 | — | QF 4 | GB |
2nd | 10 | ![]() |
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1:38.434 | +0.220s | QF 2 | GA |
3rd | 16 | ![]() |
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1:38.471 | +0.257s | QF 3 | GB |
4th | 17 | ![]() |
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1:38.538 | +0.324s | QF 3 | GB |
5th | 37 | ![]() |
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1:38.547 | +0.333s | QF 1 | GA |
6th | 7 | ![]() |
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1:38.575 | +0.361s | QF 4 | GB |
7th | 48 | ![]() |
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1:38.598 | +0.384s | 9 | GB |
8th | 5 | ![]() |
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1:38.677 | +0.463s | 11 | GB |
9th | 33 | ![]() |
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1:38.697 | +0.483s | QF 1 | GA |
10th | 9 | ![]() |
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1:38.701 | +0.487s | QF 2 | GA |
11th | 58 | ![]() |
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1:38.825 | +0.611s | 13 | GB |
12th | 94 | ![]() |
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1:38.842 | +0.628s | 15 | GB |
13th | 36 | ![]() |
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1:38.932 | +0.718s | 17 | GB |
14th | 13 | ![]() |
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1:38.976 | +0.762s | 10 | GA |
15th | 51 | ![]() |
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1:39.125 | +0.911s | 19 | GB |
16th | 25 | ![]() |
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1:39.128 | +0.914s | 12 | GA |
17th | 11 | ![]() |
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1:39.318 | +1.104s | 14 | GA |
18th | 3 | ![]() |
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1:39.365 | +1.151s | 16 | GA |
19th | 1 | ![]() |
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1:39.366 | +1.152s | 18 | GA |
20th | 4 | ![]() |
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1:39.536 | +1.322s | 20 | GA |
21st | 8 | ![]() |
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1:40.289 | +2.075s | 21 | GB |
Group A 110% Time: 1:48.277[8] | |||||||
NC | 23 | ![]() |
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— | 22 | GA | |
Group B 110% Time: 1:48.035[8] | |||||||
Source:[8] |
Race[]
Report[]
Result[]
The final classification of the 2023 Rome E-Prix II is displayed below, with the fastest lap setter indicated in italics, and the pole sitter shown in bold:
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Pos. | No. | Name | Team | Laps | Race Time | Fastest lap | Pts. |
1st | 27 | ![]() |
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24 | 45:04.323 | 1:40.482 | 29 |
2nd | 17 | ![]() |
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24 | +3.105s | 1:41.784 | 18 |
3rd | 10 | ![]() |
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24 | +3.633s | 1:41.242 | 15 |
4th | 48 | ![]() |
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24 | +4.357s | 1:41.338 | 12 |
5th | 16 | ![]() |
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24 | +5.004s | 1:41.353 | 10 |
6th | 7 | ![]() |
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24 | +5.403s | 1:41.455 | 8 |
7th | 94 | ![]() |
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24 | +11.586s | 1:41.585 | 6 |
8th | 1 | ![]() |
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24 | +11.951s | 1:41.287 | 4 |
9th | 33 | ![]() |
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24 | +12.563s | 1:41.615 | 2 |
10th | 51 | ![]() |
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24 | +13.313s | 1:41.589 | 1 |
11th | 5 | ![]() |
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24 | +14.507s | 1:41.047 | |
12th* | 13 | ![]() |
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24 | +18.034s | 1:41.532 | |
13th | 58 | ![]() |
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24 | +21.029s | 1:40.794 | |
14th† | 37 | ![]() |
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24 | +28.475s | 1:41.298 | |
15th‡ | 25 | ![]() |
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24 | +1:26.623 | 1:40.264 | |
16th | 23 | ![]() |
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23 | +1 Lap | 1:41.284 | |
Ret | 36 | ![]() |
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23 | Damage | 1:41.731 | |
Ret | 3 | ![]() |
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23 | Retired | 1:42.618 | |
Ret | 4 | ![]() |
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18 | Retired | 1:42.109 | |
Ret | 8 | ![]() |
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12 | Retired | 1:41.990 | |
Ret | 11 | ![]() |
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12 | Damage | 1:41.680 | |
Ret§ | 9 | ![]() |
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4 | Collision | 1:49.693 | |
Source:[8] |
- * da Costa served a five second time penalty for causing a collision with di Grassi.[9]
- † Cassidy served a five second time penalty for causing a collision with Lotterer.[10]
- ‡ Vergne set the fastest lap of the race (1:40.264) but was ineligible to claim the bonus point as he failed to finish in the top ten.[8]
- § Evans was awarded a five place grid penalty for the 2023 London E-Prix I for causing a collision with Cassidy.[11]
Milestones[]
- Jake Dennis secured his fifth victory.
- Dennis also earned his second Grand Slam.
- Dennis set a new record for most podium finishes in a single season - 9.
- Andretti Formula E scored their tenth victory as an entrant.
- Porsche claimed their seventh win as a powertrain supplier.
- Maiden podium finish for the Nissan Formula E Team as an entrant.
Standings[]
It may well have been a decisive day in Rome in terms of the Championship after the second battle of Rome concluded, for Jake Dennis would leave the Italian capital with a handsome 24 point lead at the head of the hunt, with 58 left to play for in London. That meant the Brit could win the title in the first race in London, only needing to out-score Nick Cassidy by six points, with the New Zealander realistically the only man who could deny Dennis a maiden FE crown. Behind, Mitch Evans was 44 off the lead in third and would need a dramatic shift in London to secure his first FE crown, while Pascal Wehrlein, Championship leader for almost half the season, had remained within mathematical contention, but would require a miracle if he was to overcome his 49 point deficit to Dennis.
The Teams' Championship, meanwhile, had not been decided in Rome, with a four-way fight guaranteed to at least last into the first race in London as just 35 points covered the top four, and a maximum haul of 94 points awaited any team that could pull off a perfect weekend. Envision Racing would head to their home races as the leaders on 253 points, but their advantage over second placed Porsche was just fourteen after the double-header in Rome, while their suppliers Jaguar Racing were only a further eleven behind in third. Avalanche Andretti, Porsche's customers, were the fourth squad in the hunt and were only ten off of the factory Jaguar effort, with DS Penske now officially out of the fight and instead aimed to hold fifth from their customers/sister squad Maserati at the finale.
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References[]
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 'Round 14 - 2023 HANKOOK Rome E-Prix - ABB FIA Formula E World Championship: Results Booklet', fiaformulae.com, (FIA Formula E, 16/07/2023), https://fe-results.s3.amazonaws.com/08_2022-23/14_R14%20Rome/ABB%20FIA%20Formula%20E%20World%20Championship/Event%20Booklet/ABB%20FIA%20Formula%20E%20World%20Championship_Italy_BOOKLET.pdf#pdfjs.action=download, (Accessed 16/07/2023)
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