Punta ePrix: Prost quickest in FP2, Buemi hits the wall

However, weekend favourite Buemi managed to rejoin the session in the final minutes and took third place, he and Prost split by championship leader Lucas di Grassi.

After crashing out in FP1, DS Virgin's Sam Bird took the early lead with a full-power run, albeit came up short of his best time of the weekend.

Buemi was also among the drivers pushing from the get-go but ended up launching himself over a kerb, which sent him straight into the wall at a high speed and damaged his front left suspension.

"I just went a bit too quick in the corner. It's not the end of the world but it's not really good," Buemi said after the crash, while Alain Prost confirmed the team would need to change the gearbox casing on the wrecked car.

Bird's benchmark stood until just past halfway point, when Stephane Sarrazin took three tenths off his time - only to be immediately pipped by Antonio Felix da Costa.

Daniel Abt then looked set to pass both with his full-power effort, but, after setting a session-best third sector, he lost the car at high speed at the chicane and smacked the wall.

The German ended up demolishing his rear wing and, while he did manage to bring the car back to the pits, a red flag was needed to clean up the debris.

As the session resumed with six minutes to go, Buemi rejoined the track on his second car and immediately went to the top spot.

However, the remainder of the session would belong to his teammate Prost, who soon took over in first place and then posted a 1m15.405, which would stand as the best lap of the session.

Behind di Grassi and Buemi, Jerome d'Ambrosio took fourth, ahead of Andretti's Robin Frijns, who sat out most of the session but vaulted himself up the order late on.

Felix da Costa finished sixth, ahead of Sarrazin, Loic Duval, Bird and Oliver Turvey.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Nicolas Prost	DAMS	1:15.405	1:15.405
2	Lucas di Grassi	Audi Sport Team Abt	1:15.539	+0.134
3	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	1:15.694	+0.289
4	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Dragon Racing	1:15.720	+0.315
5	Robin Frijns	Andretti Autosport	1:15.860	+0.455
6	Antonio Felix da Costa	Team Aguri	1:16.246	+0.841
7	Stéphane Sarrazin	Venturi	1:16.324	+0.919
8	Loic Duval	Dragon Racing	1:16.635	+1.230
9	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	1:16.646	+1.241
10	Oliver Turvey	China Racing	1:16.853	+1.448
11	Jacques Villeneuve	Venturi	1:16.919	+1.514
12	Daniel Abt	Audi Sport Team Abt	1:17.618	+2.213
13	Nathanael Berthon	Team Aguri	1:17.780	+2.375
14	Jean-Eric Vergne	Virgin Racing	1:17.788	+2.383
15	Simona de Silvestro	Andretti Autosport	1:17.790	+2.385
16	Nelson Piquet Jr.	China Racing	1:17.794	+2.389
17	Bruno Senna	Mahindra Racing	1:18.038	+2.633
18	Oliver Rowland	Mahindra Racing	1:18.508	+3.103