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London Formula E: Sebastien Buemi closes on Nelson Piquet with win

Sebastien Buemi claimed victory in the opening Formula E race in Battersea Park to move within five points of the championship lead ahead of Sunday's series finale

Pole position and a third win of the season for Buemi closed the gap to championship leader Nelson Piquet Jr from 23 points to five.

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Together with seventh place for team-mate Nicolas Prost, Buemi's win sealed the teams' championship for the French e.dams squad.

"I'm happy with what we did today and now we need to look at all the data to make sure we achieve the same tomorrow," said the winner.

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Buemi stretched a lead over Dragon Racing driver Jerome d'Ambrosio to more than three seconds before the mid-race changes of car and emerged from the pits with a similar advantage.

That disappeared with a three-lap safety-car period, but Buemi was able to control the gap over the final nine laps to take victory in his Spark-Renault SRT-01E by just over a second.

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Jean-Eric Vergne claimed third place for the Andretti team from fifth place on the grid.

The Frenchman overtook Piquet on lap three after the Team China Racing driver lost momentum trying to pass Lucas di Grassi's Abt entry.

Vergne then needed four more laps to pass di Grassi and resisted a challenge from the Brazilian over the final laps to take his second podium of the season.

Piquet ran with di Grassi after the safety car before dropping five seconds over the final laps.

The championship is now led by Piquet on 138 points from Buemi on 133, while di Grassi, who claimed an additional two points for fastest lap, is on 125 points.

RESULTS - 29 LAPS:

Pos Driver Team Gap
1 Sebastien Buemi e.dams 47m54.784s
2 Jerome d'Ambrosio Dragon 0.939s
3 Jean-Eric Vergne Andretti 1.667s
4 Lucas di Grassi Abt 2.409s
5 Nelson Piquet Jr. China 7.370s
6 Sam Bird Virgin 7.762s
7 Nicolas Prost e.dams 8.553s
8 Loic Duval Dragon 9.507s
9 Oliver Turvey China 10.032s
10 Stephane Sarrazin Venturi 12.077s
11 Simona de Silvestro Andretti 15.946s
12 Karun Chandhok Mahindra 35.595s
13 Nick Heidfeld Venturi 41.034s
14 Fabio Leimer Virgin 42.697s
15 Jarno Trulli Trulli 43.273s
16 Bruno Senna Mahindra 48.423s
17 Salvador Duran Aguri 1m01.987s
- Alex Fontana Trulli Retirement
- Daniel Abt Abt Retirement
- Sakon Yamamoto Aguri Retirement

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS:

Pos Driver Points
1 Nelson Piquet Jr. 138
2 Sebastien Buemi 133
3 Lucas di Grassi 125
4 Jerome d'Ambrosio 95
5 Nicolas Prost 88
6 Sam Bird 76
7 Jean-Eric Vergne 70
8 Antonio Felix da Costa 51
9 Daniel Abt 32
10 Nick Heidfeld 31
11 Jaime Alguersuari 30
12 Bruno Senna 28
13 Loic Duval 27
14 Stephane Sarrazin 19
15 Scott Speed 18
16 Franck Montagny 18
17 Karun Chandhok 18
18 Charles Pic 16
19 Oriol Servia 16
20 Jarno Trulli 15
21 Salvador Duran 9
22 Vitantonio Liuzzi 2
23 Oliver Turvey 2
24 Takuma Sato 2
25 Justin Wilson 1


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