Mini looms large in Formula E rookie test

Gabriele Mini was quickest in Formula E’s annual Rookie Test following the Berlin E-Prix, topping both the morning and afternoon sessions at Tempelhof Airport.

The Nissan driver’s best time of 57.28s came in the second session, going 0.215s quicker than he had in the morning, and putting him 0.226s ahead of Porsche’s Ayhancan Guven, whose best time also came later in the day.

Kush Maini, driving for Mahindra, was the highest-placed driver whose best time came in the morning. He was just 0.005s off Guven’s pace, with Andretti’s Jak Crawford’s morning best putting him fourth overall.

Callum Voisin was fifth for Cupra Kiro, with Formula 2 race winner Alex Dunne sixth for NEOM McLaren. He briefly topped the times in the afternoon as the first driver to crack the 58s barrier in that session.

Hugh Barter ensured Lola Yamaha Abt were one of only two teams with both drivers in the top 10 in eighth. The other was Fredrik Vesti of Andretti, who split the two Lolas, Alessandro Giusti ending the day ninth.

Theo Pourchaire completed the top 10 for Maserati MSG Racing, with Daniil Kvyat 11th for DS Penske.

Dino Beganovic (Mahindra), Arthur Leclerc (Maserati), Nikita Bedrin (DS Penske), Leonardo Fornaroli (Jaguar) and Zak O’Sullivan (Envision Racing) were next up, with Abbi Pulling (Nissan), Ella Lloyd (McLaren), Jamie Chadwick (Jaguar) Elia Weiss (Porsche), Jonathan Hoggard (Envision) and Bianca Bustamante (Cupra Kiro) completing the runners.

All 22 drivers were covered by 1.550s over the course of the day. Hoggard completed the most laps in the morning session with 62, while Dunne’s 58 was the afternoon’s high.

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Dominik Wilde

Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?

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