Monaco E-Prix: Evans leads Jaguar 1-2 in practice

The teammates completed a 1-2 in both sessions, with Bird leading the way in the opening 45-minute run with a 1m32.22s effort to eclipse Evans by just three hundredths. 

But the Kiwi got his own back in the later 30-minute outing by heading the leaderboard courtesy of a 1m31.118s benchmark set using the full 250kW power. 

That put Monegasque resident Evans clear of Bird by a fine 0.185s as the Jaguar Racing duo were the last drivers to post competitive lap times. 

Reigning champion Antonio Felix da Costa was a further 0.056s adrift aboard his DS Techeetah and Porsche driver Andre Lotterer ran to fifth in two largely incident-free sessions. 

A sole red flag stoppage in first practice came courtesy of a failure for the new Dragon Penske Autosport car. 

The Penske EV-5 machine makes its competitive debut in Monaco after delays forced the team to hold off the introduction in Rome and then Valencia - the first rounds to fall after the later homologation window came into play.  

Sergio Sette Camara came to a halt at the first apex of Anthony Noghes and then failed to restart, which forced the session to be paused. 

But the incident then continued when Venturi Racing driver Norman Nato rounded the blind corner and nosed into the rear of the stricken Dragon. 

This meant Nato – who was denied a podium in both Rome and Valencia due to penalties – received a latest reprimand and will drop two places on the grid. 

Nato again suffered a scare shortly after the chequered flag had been called for the second practice session.  

Both he and fellow rookie and Envision Virgin Racing driver Nick Cassidy had to take avoiding action exiting Rascasse and were forced to correct massive slides. 

However, the stewards decided to take no further action after minimal contact was made.  

The new Nissan e.dams powertrain starts its debut event with the fifth fastest time courtesy of Oliver Rowland, as teammate and two-time Monaco E-Prix victor Sebastien Buemi was only 21st.  

Points-leading team Mercedes had it times led by Nyck de Vries in eighth with Stoffel Vandoorne running to 15th.  

FP1 results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	10	Sam Bird	Jaguar Racing	1'32.220
2	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	1'32.253	0.033
3	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	1'32.360	0.140
4	13	Antonio Felix da Costa	Techeetah	1'32.576	0.356
5	99	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Team	1'32.626	0.406
6	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	1'32.657	0.437
7	37	Nick Cassidy	Virgin Racing	1'32.686	0.466
8	11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	1'32.792	0.572
9	36	Andre Lotterer	Porsche Team	1'32.794	0.574
10	94	Alex Lynn	Mahindra Racing	1'32.923	0.703
11	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	1'33.012	0.792
12	6	Nico Müller	Dragon Racing	1'33.042	0.822
13	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	1'33.054	0.834
14	33	René Rast	Team Abt	1'33.090	0.870
15	71	Norman Nato	Venturi	1'33.193	0.973
16	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	1'33.263	1.043
17	28	Maximilian Gunther	Andretti Autosport	1'33.281	1.061
18	8	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	1'33.468	1.248
19	22	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	1'33.533	1.313
20	29	Alexander Sims	Mahindra Racing	1'33.837	1.617
21	23	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	1'33.865	1.645
22	88	Tom Blomqvist	NIO Formula E Team	1'33.915	1.695
23	27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Autosport	1'34.170	1.950
24	7	Sergio Sette Camara	Dragon Racing	1'38.671	6.451
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FP2 results:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	1'31.118
2	10	Sam Bird	Jaguar Racing	1'31.303	0.185
3	13	Antonio Felix da Costa	Techeetah	1'31.359	0.241
4	36	Andre Lotterer	Porsche Team	1'31.471	0.353
5	22	Oliver Rowland	DAMS	1'31.554	0.436
6	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	1'31.571	0.453
7	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	1'31.584	0.466
8	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	1'31.626	0.508
9	99	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Team	1'31.723	0.605
10	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	1'31.759	0.641
11	6	Nico Müller	Dragon Racing	1'31.947	0.829
12	8	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	1'32.046	0.928
13	11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	1'32.095	0.977
14	28	Maximilian Gunther	Andretti Autosport	1'32.105	0.987
15	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	1'32.163	1.045
16	94	Alex Lynn	Mahindra Racing	1'32.228	1.110
17	27	Jake Dennis	Andretti Autosport	1'32.403	1.285
18	33	René Rast	Team Abt	1'32.555	1.437
19	88	Tom Blomqvist	NIO Formula E Team	1'32.569	1.451
20	29	Alexander Sims	Mahindra Racing	1'32.830	1.712
21	23	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	1'33.242	2.124
22	7	Sergio Sette Camara	Dragon Racing	1'33.679	2.561
23	37	Nick Cassidy	Virgin Racing	1'33.847	2.729
24	71	Norman Nato	Venturi	1'33.848	2.730
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