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Mueller fastest for Porsche in final Monaco E-Prix practice
Nico Mueller rebounded from a difficult first race of the Monaco E-Prix to go quickest in the final practice session on Sunday morning.
The Porsche driver was 0.313s clear of second placed Edoardo Mortara who kept Mahindra at the sharp end of the field after teammate Nyck de Vries won on Saturday.The DS Penskes of Maximilan Guenther and Taylor Barnard were next up, with Jaguar TCS Racing's Mitch Evans in fifth. Evans had what appeared to be a wheel alignment issue early in the session but it was quickly rectified.
Saturday polesitter Dan Ticktum was sixth for Cupra Kiro, ahead of de Vries, who was top of the times entering the final 10 minutes, but slipped down the order after a late group of fast laps from others. While Mueller held a significant gap to second, the rest of the top seven were covered by just 0.053s.
Fresh from his maiden Formula E podium, Pepe Marti was eighth ahead of Norman Nato and Pascal Wehrlein, who abandoned his final fast lap because of traffic.
Felipe Drugovich finished the session in 11th, 0.026s outside the top-10, with Antonio Felix da Costa 12th, his Jaguar freshly repaired after his race-ending collision with Ticktum on Saturday. Sebastien Buemi was 13th, having had a close call with Andretti's Jake Dennis at Sainte Devote towards the end of the session.
The Andretti driver had run deep into the first turn, had performed a 180 degree spin to rejoin the track when Buemi had an almost identical off, narrowly avoiding the rejoining Dennis.
Dennis finished the session 18th – behind Jean-Eric Vergne, Joel Eriksson, Zane Maloney, and Lucas di Grassi – and was one of two drivers who didn't complete a lap on 350kW with four-wheel-drive. The other was reigning champion Oliver Rowland, who wound up 19th, with Nick Cassidy completing the field.
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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