Antonio Felix da Costa topped opening observe for the Mexico Metropolis E-Prix, main the Nissan-powered duo of Taylor Barnard and Oliver Rowland.
The session befell in largely dry circumstances, though there have been just a few reviews of spots of rain throughout the 40-minute session, however Components E’s new GEN3 Evo automotive ensured the official lap document at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez was comfortably damaged, with da Costa’s finest lap of 1m 10.855 – the race lap document being set by Jake Dennis final 12 months with a 1m14.195
Second was NEOM McLaren driver Barnard, simply 0.091s behind da Costa, with Rowland within the works Nissan an extra 0.031s again, with each drivers having made a late surge up the timesheets because the checkered flag got here out.
da Costa accomplished his quickest lap with the total complement of 350 kW of energy, whereas his TAG Heuer Porsche teammate Pascal Wehrlein – the polesitter and winner of final 12 months’s Mexico Metropolis E-Prix – was the highest-placed runner to lap with solely 300 kW. He accomplished his finest time on full energy, nonetheless.
Sao Paulo E-Prix winner Mitch Evans was fifth for Jaguar TCS Racing, having gone quickest midway by means of the session, with Lucas di Grassi sixth for Lola Yamaha Abt having spent a interval within the second half of the session atop of the timesheets after turning into the primary driver to interrupt the 1m 11s barrier.
Norman Nato ensured each manufacturing unit Nissans ended the day within the prime 10, ending seventh, 0.486s adrift of his teammate.
Subsequent up was Envision Racing’s Sebastein Buemi and the Mahindra Racing pair of Edoardo Mortara and Nyck de Vries, with Stoffel Vandoorne splitting each in tenth.
Behind twelfth positioned Dan Ticktum of Burpa Kiro, Nico Mueller led Andretti teammate Dennis in thirteenth, with Nick Cassidy a lowly fifteenth within the second manufacturing unit Jaguar. Sam Hen was one other driver with a giant hole to his teammate, the McLaren man ending the session sixteenth, forward of the Stellantis-powered trio of Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Penske), Jake Hughes (Maserati MSG Racing), and Maximilian Guenther.
Robin Frijns (Envision), David Beckmann (Kiro) – who had a brush with the wall on the Peraltada on his last lap – and Zane Maloney within the second Lola Yamaha Abt accomplished the sphere, Maloney not finishing a lap on full energy.
