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Drugovich quickest in damp second practice for Madrid E-Prix
Felipe Drugovich put Andretti at the top of the timesheets in second practice for the Madrid E-Prix, leading Citroen's Jean-Eric Vergne by just 0.074s.
The session was a contrast to Friday’s opening practice session with damp and overcast conditions leaving drivers scrambling for grip. The lead pair set their best laps on the final tours of the session, with Norman Nato going third for Nissan with his penultimate effort. Nyck de Vries was fourth fastest for Mahindra, ahead of Nick Cassidy who made sure Citroen was the only team with two drivers in the top-five, mirroring fellow Stellantis outfit DS Penske yesterday.
Nico Mueller was sixth for Porsche, ahead of Envision Racing's Sebastien Buemi and the DS Penske of Taylor Barnard, with Andretti's Jake Dennis – who was lucky to get out of the gravel after running deep at Turn 1 early on – and reigning champion Oliver Rowland 10th for Nissan.
Edoardo Mortara missed out on the top 10 by 0.171s for Mahindra – he completed the most laps in the session (16) along with pacesetter Drugovich and Buemi – with Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche) and Antonio Felix da Costa (Jaguar TCS Racing) – who led at the halfway point – next up.
Zane Maloney was 14th for Lola Yamaha Abt, ahead of FP1 pacesetter Dan Ticktum, who once again ventured into the Turn 1 gravel in the final 10 minutes, but went second-quickest minutes later, only to fall down the order after a flurry of late fast laps. Ticktum's Cupra Kiro teammate Pepe Marti was 16th, with Maximiliam Guenther (DS Penske) and Mitch Evans (Jaguar) next up.
Lucas di Grassi (Lola) and Joel Eriksson (Envision) completed the field as the only drivers to not complete a fast lap on 350kW and four-wheel-drive. Eriksson also completed the fewest laps of the session with 13.
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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