Following an incident-filled Paris E-Prix, Jerome d'Ambrosio, Edoardo Mortara and Oliver Rowland have all been handed grid penalties for the Monaco E-Prix on May 11.
In Paris, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship witnessed its first wet race in five seasons, with heavy showers and hail creating treacherous conditions on the 1.93km-long Circuit des Invalides street course.
While it was Envision Virgin Racing's Robin Frijns who stood on the top step of the podium to become Formula E's eighth different winner this season, the 45-minute + 1 lap race was not short of incidents, witnessing three Full Course Yellows and one additional safety car after the race was started under controlled conditions.
Because of a number of incidents during the race, Mahindra's d'Ambrosio, Venturi's Mortara and Nissan's Rowland have all been handed three-place grid penalties for the Monaco E-Prix.
D'Ambrosio, who started from the rear of the field after getting disqualified from a sixth place qualifying spot, was deemed to be responsible for an incident in Turn 3 with Sam Bird after the Belgian struck the side of Bird's Envision Virgin car, nudging the Briton into the barriers, with this causing the driver's grid drop.
D'Ambrosio was also found to have improperly used Attack Mode at the start of the E-Prix, with this resulting in an additional five-second time penalty and the addition of one penalty point to his racing licence.
Similarly to d'Ambrosio, Rowland was also deemed to be responsible for a separate incident in Turn 3 which resulted in the retirement of Alexander Sims, with the crash taking place only seconds after d'Ambrosio's contact with Bird.
For his collision with Alex Lynn, Mortara was also penalised after it was found that the Swiss-Italian racer was predominantly responsible for the incident in Turn 13 which resulted in both of their retirements.
Elsewhere, NIO Formula E's Oliver Turvey was handed a 50-second time penalty post-race following his incident with Felipe Massa in the second Venturi car while Antonio Felix da Costa escaped penalty for an alleged breach in use of FanBoost.
The Monaco E-Prix will take place on May 11 and marks the ninth race of Formula E's present 2018/19 campaign.
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