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Wehrlein keeps Porsche power on top in Mexico City E-Prix FP2
Pascal Wehrlein topped the second practice session for the Mexico City E-Prix, keeping Porsche power at the top of the times after customer team Andretti set the pace with Jake Dennis on Friday.
Wehrlein went quickest for the factory team – which is sporting a special livery celebrating the 7th anniversary of the La Carrera Panamericana race across Mexico, which coincidentally was won in 1954 by Hans Herrmann who passed away on Friday at the age of 97 – in the final moments of the session with a 1m05.141s, 0.16s quicker than Envision Racing driver Sebastien Buemi who was fastest at the midway point of the 40-minute session.
Taylor Barnard was third for DS Penske, ahead of Nico Mueller in the second Porsche and Dennis who received a reprimand in the session for performing a burnout in the pit lane.
Nyck de Vries was sixth for Mahindra, ahead of Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans and DS Penske’s Maximilian Guenther, with Edoardo Mortara in the second Mahindra and Nissan driver Norman Nato completing the top 10.
Nick Cassidy was the highest placed Citroen in 11th, having run into traffic at Turn 4 on his final full-power run.
After setting the pace early on, going fastest after a spectacular drift through the final corner, Nissan's reigning champion Oliver Rowland wound up 12th, ahead of Cupra Kiro's Dan Ticktum, Lola Yamaha Abt's Lucas di Grassi, and the Envision of Joel Eriksson.
Jean-Eric Vergne was next up for Citroen, with Zane Maloney (Lola) and Felipe Drugovich (Andretti), the only driver to not complete a fast lap on full 350kW with four-wheel-drive, completing the runners in 17th and 18th respectively.
Cupra Kiro's Pepe Marti failed to set a lap time after encountering an unspecified hardware issue, while Jaguar's Antonio Felix da Costa also failed to take to the track after suffering a DC-DC failure which caused a brake-by-wire issue in the first 10 minures.
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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