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Hong Kong Formula E: Robin Frijns and Oliver Rowland lead practice

Envision Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns sealed the fastest time in rain-affected practice for ABB FIA Formula E's Hong Kong E-Prix with a last-minute effort in FP2

Frijns set a 1m09.221s effort after the chequered flag had flown in second practice to leapfrog Nissan e.dams' Oliver Rowland, who had earlier topped the opening session with a 1m09.283s lap.

The second practice had looked set to produce slower times because of a downpour between the running, and only Frijns was able to beat Rowland's first session benchmark come the end of practice.

DS Techeetah's Andre Lotterer ended up third ahead of Edoardo Mortara, who had completed just five laps going into the second half of the session having stopped on track moments after it began.

The Venturi driver eventually added further laps to knock Sam Bird into fifth. The Virgin driver had made contact with the wall in the first session.

Reigning champion Jean-Eric Vergne was sixth. He had admitted on Saturday that he did not fully understand his DS Techeetah's handling at present.

NIO's Oliver Turvey climbed from the bottom rung of the timesheets to go eighth ahead of Gary Paffett.

The HWA driver had held the top spot heading into the final four minutes before he was shuffled down the order. Paffett had stopped on track in the first session with a drivetrain problem.

Audi's Daniel Abt rounded out the top 10 ahead of BMW Andretti driver Alexander Sims, the second Audi of Lucas di Grassi and Venturi's Felipe Massa.

A flurry of late laps meant NIO's Tom Dillmann dropped from fourth to 14th ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne.

Championship leader Jerome D'Ambrosio featured in the lower end of the timesheets in both sessions and finished practice in 20th, with his Mahindra team-mate Pascal Wehrlein in 17th.

Mitch Evans caused a yellow flag when a suspected driveshaft problem caused him to pull off track at the Turn 6 hairpin.

The Jaguar driver ended second practice in 21st but still 5.476s up on Dragon Racing's Felipe Nasr - who completed just three laps after brushing a wall at Turn 9.

Practice one times

Pos Driver Team Car Time Gap Laps
1 Oliver Rowland e.dams Nissan 1m09.283s - 26
2 Andre Lotterer DS Techeetah DS 1m09.653s 0.370s 28
3 Jean-Eric Vergne DS Techeetah DS 1m09.744s 0.461s 25
4 Sebastien Buemi e.dams Nissan 1m09.893s 0.610s 27
5 Daniel Abt Audi Audi 1m09.956s 0.673s 30
6 Robin Frijns Virgin Audi 1m09.957s 0.674s 26
7 Jose Maria Lopez Dragon Penske 1m10.070s 0.787s 27
8 Gary Paffett HWA Venturi 1m10.236s 0.953s 30
9 Alexander Sims BMW BMW 1m10.382s 1.099s 29
10 Edoardo Mortara Venturi Venturi 1m10.418s 1.135s 26
11 Stoffel Vandoorne HWA Venturi 1m10.567s 1.284s 30
12 Sam Bird Virgin Audi 1m10.724s 1.441s 26
13 Tom Dillmann NIO NIO 1m10.728s 1.445s 28
14 Felipe Massa Venturi Venturi 1m10.864s 1.581s 32
15 Mitch Evans Jaguar Jaguar 1m10.898s 1.615s 23
16 Nelson Piquet Jr. Jaguar Jaguar 1m11.021s 1.738s 24
17 Lucas di Grassi Audi Audi 1m11.316s 2.033s 25
18 Felipe Nasr Dragon Penske 1m11.321s 2.038s 25
19 Antonio Felix da Costa BMW BMW 1m11.380s 2.097s 31
20 Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Mahindra 1m11.396s 2.113s 28
21 Jerome d'Ambrosio Mahindra Mahindra 1m11.843s 2.560s 28
22 Oliver Turvey NIO NIO 1m12.305s 3.022s 27

Practice two times

Pos Driver Team Car Time Gap Laps
1 Robin Frijns Virgin Audi 1m09.221s - 11
2 Oliver Rowland e.dams Nissan 1m09.478s 0.257s 17
3 Andre Lotterer DS Techeetah DS 1m09.499s 0.278s 24
4 Edoardo Mortara Venturi Venturi 1m09.523s 0.302s 9
5 Sebastien Buemi e.dams Nissan 1m09.845s 0.624s 19
6 Sam Bird Virgin Audi 1m09.909s 0.688s 12
7 Jean-Eric Vergne DS Techeetah DS 1m10.066s 0.845s 17
8 Oliver Turvey NIO NIO 1m10.078s 0.857s 18
9 Gary Paffett HWA Venturi 1m10.160s 0.939s 22
10 Daniel Abt Audi Audi 1m10.178s 0.957s 18
11 Alexander Sims BMW BMW 1m10.224s 1.003s 15
12 Lucas di Grassi Audi Audi 1m10.268s 1.047s 17
13 Felipe Massa Venturi Venturi 1m10.353s 1.132s 18
14 Tom Dillmann NIO NIO 1m10.490s 1.269s 17
15 Stoffel Vandoorne HWA Venturi 1m10.599s 1.378s 22
16 Antonio Felix da Costa BMW BMW 1m10.913s 1.692s 16
17 Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Mahindra 1m11.130s 1.909s 17
18 Jose Maria Lopez Dragon Penske 1m11.152s 1.931s 20
19 Nelson Piquet Jr. Jaguar Jaguar 1m11.213s 1.992s 16
20 Jerome d'Ambrosio Mahindra Mahindra 1m11.240s 2.019s 17
21 Mitch Evans Jaguar Jaguar 1m13.569s 4.348s 5
22 Felipe Nasr Dragon Penske 1m19.045s 9.824s 5


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