Dennis leads opening Mexico City E-Prix practice

Sao Paulo E-Prix winner Jake Dennis carried on his form from the opening round by setting the pace in the opening 30 minute practice session for this weekend’s Mexico City E-Prix.

The layout at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez was altered slightly for this season, switching to a layout similar to that last used in 2022 which forgoes the old Turn 9-10-11 chicane for a full back straight. Turn 1 has was also tightened. Consequently, the track length was trimmed by 20 meters, going from 2.628km to 2.608km

Andretti's Dennis set the pace in the opening 10 minutes of the dry session which began at 4 p.m. local time, then moved back to the top of the timesheets with just over three and a half minutes to go, usurping factory Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein with a 1m06.053s lap, 0.037s quicker than the German.

Reigning champion Oliver Rowland finished the session in second for Nissan, a further 0.016s seconds back, while the DS Penskes of Maximilian Guenther and Taylor Barnard completed the top five as the highest placed drivers who did their fastest laps in the standard 300kw, rear-wheel-drive configuration. Barnard, along with Mitch Evans, was one of two drivers to receive black and white flags for impeding other drivers in the first half of the session.

Nico Mueller was sixth, having gone as high as second in the final 10 minutes after his teammate Wehrlein moved to the top. 
Wehrlein finished ahead of Norman Nato – who was hit with a pit lane speeding penalty during the session – in the second Nissan in seventh, with the highest placed Jaguar, Antonio Felix da Costa, eighth and Jean-Eric Vergne of Citroen Racing and the other Jaguar TCS Racing entry of Evans rounding out the top 10.

Edoardo Mortara was 11th for Mahindra ahead of Envision Racing's Sebastein Buemi – who had a spell at the top of the times in the middle of the session – and the Citroen of Nick Cassidy, who clipped the wall at Turn 9 in the final moments of the session. 

Dan Ticktum was 14th for Curpa Kiro, with his teammate Pep Marti 15th and his fellow rookies Joel Eriksson (Envision) and Felipe Drugovich (Andretti) in 16th and 17th respectively. 

Zane Maloney (Lola Yamaha Abt), Nyck de Vries (Mahindra), and Lucas di Grassi (Lola Yamaha Abt) completed the field, di Grassi having run deep into Turn 1 with a braking issue with 13 minutes to go. He was able to keep running, however.

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