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Sam Bird tops opening day of pre-season Formula E testing

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Envision Virgin Racing's Sam Bird jumped to the top of the times during the afternoon session at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Spain as Formula E's first official day of pre-season testing came to a close ahead of the 2019/20 season.

Maximilian Gunther set the pace in the morning with a time of 1:15.926, which Bird swiftly beat as the session resumed after lunch, getting down to a 1:15.570, but Gunther wasn't far behind as he too improved in the afternoon to go second quickest with a time of 1:15.663 for BMW i Andretti.

It was a close session with the top ten covered by just over half a second and the top 16 all within a second of Bird's chart-topping pace.

DS Techeetah's Antonio Felix da Costa was third fastest ahead of Jaguar's Mitch Evans, who split the two Techeetah cars as reigning series champion Jean-Eric Vergne managed the fifth quickest time, a tenth off his team-mate.

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The two Nissan e.dams cars were sixth and seventh followed by Mahindra's Pascal Wehrlein, Virgin's Robin Frijns and Audi's Daniel Abt.

Mercedes-Benz EQ rookie Nyck de Vires failed to post a lap time for the majority of the session before going out with minutes to spare and setting a 1:17.654, which was only good enough for 23rd as the Dutch driver suffered technical difficulties in the morning when his car had to be recovered on track.

His Mercedes team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne didn't fair too much better as he failed to better his time from the morning and wound up 22nd quickest overall. Nico Muller, Jerome d'Ambrosio, Edoardo Mortara and Neel Jani also failed to improve in the afternoon.

The session saw a red flag when Jaguar's James Calado stopped at the exit of the pitlane and had to be lifted back to the garage – his second stoppage of the day after crashing in the morning.

# Driver Team Time Gap
1 S. Bird Envision Virgin Racing 1:15.570  
2 M. Gunther BMW i Andretti 1:15.663 0.093
3 A. da Costa DS Techeetah 1:15.681 0.111
4 M. Evans Jaguar Racing 1:16.724 0.154
5 J. Vergne DS Techeetah 1:16.798 0.228
6 S. Buemi Nissan e.dams 1:16.882 0.312
7 O. Rowland Nissan e.dams 1:16.942 0.372
8 P. Wehrlein Mahindra Racing 1:16.975 0.405
9 R. Frijns Envision Virgin Racing 1:16.081 0.511
10 D. Abt Audi Sport Abt 1:16.084 0.514
11 A. Sims BMW i Andretti 1:16.097 0.527
12 L. di Grassi Audi Sport Abt 1:16.140 0.570
13 N. Muller GEOX Dragon 1:16.387 0.817
14 A. Lotterer Porsche Racing 1:16.482 0.912
15 E. Mortara Venturi Racing 1:16.531 0.961
16 J. d'Ambrosio Mahindra Racing 1:16.552 0.982
17 F. Massa Venturi Racing 1:16.580 1.010
18 B. Hartley GEOX Dragon 1:16.698 1.128
19 O. Turvey NIO 333 FE 1:16.867 1.297
20 J. Calado Jaguar Racing 1:17.016 1.446
21 N. Jani Porsche Racing 1:17.343 1.727
22 S. Vandoorne Mercedes-Benz EQ 1:17.389 1.819
23 N. de Vries Mercedes-Benz EQ 1:17.654 2.084
24 M. Qing Hua NIO 333 FE 1:20.220 4.650
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