New York City E-Prix: Da Costa headlines Formula E practice

In cooler conditions compared to Friday afternoon's FP1 session, owing to the 7am start to proceedings in Brooklyn's Red Hook district, the drivers aimed to start running early to try to clear up some of the dust pervading the circuit.

Nyck de Vries was first to get within a second of the Friday times, setting a 1m10.693s, before countryman Robin Frijns punched in a 1m10.157s to get his Envision machinery to top.

He was accosted by team-mate Nick Cassidy, who displaced de Vries for second - before the Mercedes driver returned to the top with a 1m10.121s.

Andre Lotterer was then first to surpass the Friday times on a full 250kW power lap, posting a 1m09.353s - as Porsche team-mate Pascal Wehrlein popped up into second with a lap 0.8s behind.

Frijns returned to headline the session for mere seconds, shading Lotterer by 0.03s, before de Vries displaced him with a 1m09.306s.

Jean-Eric Vergne then grabbed a 1m09.281s to pick up control of the session, before Stoffel Vandoorne went a tenth and a half faster - but both were surpassed by Lotterer with a 1m09.073s.

The times were then brought into the 1m08s by Wehrlein, but he was brushed aside by Mitch Evans, who held the best time of the session until the final few minutes - before da Costa displaced him with a 1m08.684s which ultimately proved to be the headliner of the session.

Mitch Evans, Jaguar Racing, Jaguar I-TYPE 5

Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images

Evans' time was good enough for second overall, as Avalanche Andretti's Jake Dennis claimed the third-fastest time in the American squad's home round.

Wehrlein ended the session in fourth ahead of Frijns, who led Envision's charge as team-mate Cassidy struggled with traffic on one of his fliers.

Vergne dropped to sixth, but ahead of former team-mate Andre Lotterer on the timing board, as Vandoorne and championship leader Edoardo Mortara were eighth and ninth quickest. Antonio Giovinazzi made his way into the top 10, 0.008s off of Mortara's best.

Vandoorne had headed FP1 with a late effort to depose Sergio Sette Camara from the top of the times.

The Dragon driver had beaten the more established frontrunners with a 1m10.135s, but Vandoorne fired in his best time before the chequered flag fell - clocking a 1m09.836s to hold the overnight bragging rights.

Formula E New York E-Prix I - Practice Results

FP2

Cla	Driver		Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Antonio Felix da Costa		Techeetah	18	1'08.684
2	Mitch Evans		Jaguar Racing	21	1'08.886	0.202	0.202
3	Jake Dennis		Andretti Autosport	19	1'08.900	0.216	0.014
4	Pascal Wehrlein		Porsche Team	19	1'08.907	0.223	0.007
5	Robin Frijns		Virgin Racing	18	1'08.942	0.258	0.035
6	Jean-Eric Vergne		Techeetah	20	1'08.973	0.289	0.031
7	Andre Lotterer		Porsche Team	18	1'09.073	0.389	0.100
8	Stoffel Vandoorne		Mercedes	19	1'09.116	0.432	0.043
9	Edoardo Mortara		Venturi	21	1'09.164	0.480	0.048
10	Antonio Giovinazzi		Dragon Racing	21	1'09.172	0.488	0.008
11	Oliver Rowland		Mahindra Racing	17	1'09.192	0.508	0.020
12	Nyck de Vries		Mercedes	18	1'09.241	0.557	0.049
13	Sébastien Buemi		DAMS	19	1'09.274	0.590	0.033
14	Maximilian Gunther		DAMS	18	1'09.308	0.624	0.034
15	Sergio Sette Camara		Dragon Racing	18	1'09.343	0.659	0.035
16	Oliver Askew		Andretti Autosport	18	1'09.374	0.690	0.031
17	Sam Bird		Jaguar Racing	20	1'09.412	0.728	0.038
18	Lucas di Grassi		Venturi	20	1'09.514	0.830	0.102
19	Oliver Turvey		NIO Formula E Team	20	1'09.577	0.893	0.063
20	Dan Ticktum		NIO Formula E Team	21	1'09.638	0.954	0.061
21	Nick Cassidy		Virgin Racing	21	1'09.980	1.296	0.342
22	Alexander Sims		Mahindra Racing	17	1'10.856	2.172	0.876
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FP1

Cla	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	20	1'09.836
2	Sergio Sette Camara	Dragon Racing	19	1'10.135	0.299	0.299
3	Oliver Rowland	Mahindra Racing	20	1'10.143	0.307	0.008
4	Sam Bird	Jaguar Racing	20	1'10.171	0.335	0.028
5	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	21	1'10.316	0.480	0.145
6	Pascal Wehrlein	Porsche Team	20	1'10.319	0.483	0.003
7	Antonio Felix da Costa	Techeetah	19	1'10.350	0.514	0.031
8	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	20	1'10.397	0.561	0.047
9	Maximilian Gunther	DAMS	18	1'10.400	0.564	0.003
10	Jake Dennis	Andretti Autosport	20	1'10.419	0.583	0.019
11	Lucas di Grassi	Venturi	19	1'10.449	0.613	0.030
12	Antonio Giovinazzi	Dragon Racing	20	1'10.488	0.652	0.039
13	Alexander Sims	Mahindra Racing	20	1'10.498	0.662	0.010
14	Nick Cassidy	Virgin Racing	19	1'10.599	0.763	0.101
15	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	21	1'10.613	0.777	0.014
16	Dan Ticktum	NIO Formula E Team	19	1'10.621	0.785	0.008
17	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	20	1'10.732	0.896	0.111
18	Sébastien Buemi	DAMS	19	1'10.739	0.903	0.007
19	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	17	1'10.763	0.927	0.024
20	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	20	1'10.788	0.952	0.025
21	Andre Lotterer	Porsche Team	20	1'11.389	1.553	0.601
22	Oliver Askew	Andretti Autosport	19	1'11.480	1.644	0.091
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