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Wehrlein’s London win units up thrilling three-way title showdown in finale · RaceFans

Pascal Wehrlein arrange an exciting three-way championship showdown for Sunday’s remaining race of the season by successful the primary London EPrix.

The Porsche driver gained an incident-filled first race of the weekend on the London ExCel area to take a slim championship lead and pressure an in depth title decider between himself and the 2 Jaguar drivers, Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy.

Ranging from third, Wehrlein handed Evans to take the lead and remained forward over the later laps to take the chequered flag first forward of Evans. Maximilian Guenther had overtaken Evans to take second place, however he all of a sudden misplaced energy in his Maserati after a late Security Automotive restart which pressured him into retirement and promoted Sebastien Buemi as much as the rostrum in third.

The 2 Mahindras of Nyck de Vries and Edoardo Mortara completed fourth and fifth, forward of Nico Mueller. Nick Cassidy beneath menace of failing to attain any factors for almost all of the race earlier than ending ninth on the highway, however was promoted as much as seventh because of time penalties for Jake Dennis and Sacha Fenestraz forward of him.

Sam Chicken recovered from being caught behind Robin Frijns’ crashed Envision on the opening lap to attain factors in eighth, whereas Stoffel Vandoorne and Norman Nato scooped up the ultimate factors in ninth and tenth, respectively.

The dramatic race sees Wehrlein head into the climactic remaining race with a slender three-point lead within the championship forward of Evans, with Cassidy simply seven factors off the highest of the desk in third. Reigning champion Dennis, Antonio Felix da Costa, Oliver Rowland and Jean-Eric Vergne had been all mathematically eradicated from competition with their outcomes.

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Race end result

Pos. No. Group Driver Automotive
1 94 Porsche Pascal Wehrlein Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
2 9 Jaguar Mitch Evans Jaguar I-Kind 6
3 16 Envision Sebastien Buemi Jaguar I-Kind 6
4 21 Mahinda Nyck de Vries Mahindra M10Electro
5 48 Mahinda Edoardo Mortara Mahindra M10Electro
6 51 Abt Cupra Nico Mueller Mahindra M10Electro
7 37 Jaguar Nick Cassidy Jaguar I-Kind 6
8 8 McLaren Sam Chicken Nissan e-4ORCE 04
9 2 DS Penske Stoffel Vandoorne DS E-TENSE FE23
10 17 Andretti Norman Nato Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
11 11 Abt Cupra Lucas di Grassi Mahindra M9Electro
12 3 ERT Sergio Sette Camara ERT X24
13 33 ERT Dan Ticktum ERT X24
14 23 Nissan Sacha Fenestraz Nissan e-4ORCE 04
15 22 McLaren Oliver Rowland Nissan e-4ORCE 04
16 1 Andretti Jake Dennis Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
17 25 DS Penske Jean-Eric Vergne DS E-TENSE FE23
18 18 Maserati Jehan Daruvala Maserati Tipo Folgore
19 7 Maserati Maximilian Guenther Maserati Tipo Folgore
20 5 McLaren Jake Hughes Nissan e-4ORCE 04
21 13 Porsche Antonio Felix da Costa Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
22 4 Envision Robin Frijns Jaguar I-Kind 6

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