Andre Lotterer set the pace in first practice ahead of the Paris E-Prix, topping the timesheets in a wet and wreck-filled opening session of running.
The DS Techeetah driver was part of a three-way fight for the fastest lap of FP1, exchanging lap times with Jose Maria Lopez, Robin Frijns and Oliver Rowland before ending the session on top after Sam Bird caused a late red flag which meant that practice would not be resumed, crashing in Turn 2.
Lapping the 1.920km-long circuit in 1m 10.667s, Lotterer set the fastest time, with Nissan e.dams' Sebastien Buemi emerging as the German's nearest challenger despite slapping the Turn 2 barriers late in the session while also receiving a reprimand for crashing into Bird early on.
Rowland, who briefly held the fastest lap of the session, completed the top three in the second Nissan IM01 while Gary Paffett delivered Rome podium finishers HWA Racelab with fourth, briefly running in Attack Mode at the close of the session in preparation for FP2.
Bird, who had limited running throughout after being collected by Buemi early on before crashing in Turn 2, completed the top five for Envision Virgin Racing, 0.610s adrift of Lotterer's session-topping pace.
Mahindra Racing's Pascal Wehrlein secured the sixth fastest time while 2018 Paris E-Prix race winner Jean-Eric Vergne was seventh in the second DS Techeetah entry, 0.807s adrift of his team-mate.
While Edoardo Mortara was eighth for Venturi, Tom Dillmann was ninth for NIO, with GEOX Dragon's Lopez completing the top 10, showing the currently untapped pace of the Penske EV-3 machine which appeared in Super Pole in Rome.
Outside of the top 10, Alex Lynn was the lead Jaguar Racing car in 11th while it was a difficult session for Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler, with Daniel Abt trailing Lotterer by 1.270s in 12th while Lucas di Grassi was the slowest runner after crashing only two minutes into the session, with this compromising the Season Three champion's running.
Rome winner Mitch Evans was 13th while Stoffel Vandoorne was 14th, followed by Felipe Massa, Maximilian Gunther, Jerome d'Ambrosio, Antonio Felix da Costa, Oliver Turvey, Alexander Sims, Frijns and the trailing di Grassi.
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