Mortara edges Guenther in close final Berlin E-Prix practice

Edoardo Mortara followed up from taking the Formula E championship lead on Saturday by going quickest in the final practice session for the Berlin E-Prix.

In what was a close but otherwise low-key session, where the entire field was covered by just 0.628s, the Mahindra driver's best lap time, which came in the final five minutes of the 40-minute session, of 57.581s was just 0.004s quicker than Guenther. Guenther ended the session with the fewest laps completed, with 19.

Taylor Barnard made it two DS Penskes in the top-three, another 0.004s back from his teammate, ahead of Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein, while Jean-Eric Vergne completed the top-five for Citroen.

Nyck de Vries was sixth in the second Mahindra, ahead of Nissan's Oliver Rowland and Cupra Kiro's Dan Ticktum, with the Andrettis of Felipe Drugovich – who was top of the times in the first half of the session – and Jake Dennis rounding out the top-10.

Antonio Felix da Costa was the highest-placed Jaguar runner in 11th, ahead of Saturday race winner Nico Mueller, with Sebastien Buemi of Jaguar customer Envision Racing in 13th. He completed the highest number of laps with 26.

Citroen’s Nick Cassidy was 14th, ahead of Zane Maloney for Lola Yamaha Abt and Jaguar TCS Racing’s Mitch Evans, with Envision’s Joel Eriksson, Nissan' s Norman Nato, Lucas di Grassi in the second Lola, and Pepe Marti for Kiro completing the field.

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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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