18 APRIL 2019 AUTOSPORT.COM 35POWERED BYRESULTS ROUND 7/12, ROME (ITA), 13 APRIL (29 LAPS – 52.307 MILES)Evans has a great deal to
celebrate, taking his and
Jaguar’s maiden FE winD’Ambrosio’s qualifying travails
left him playing catch-up, but
he retook the points leadS^ BLOXHAMwas as good as things had got so far in
the current 2018-19 championship, and
the team had shown little sign of being
a frontrunner until last weekend. Plus,
the race team had arrived in Rome off the
back of splitting with Nelson Piquet Jr,
whose replacement Alex Lynn qualified
a noteworthy ninth, although Lynn would
lose that position for going over the 250kW
limit on his flying lap and had to battle back
from 21st to a creditable 12th at the finish.
“As a young team, we’ve learned a lot
of lessons,” said Barclay, who put Jaguar’s
Rome form down to a focus on improving
its qualifying performance. “There has
been some genuine bad luck and there have
been some areas where we haven’t given
ourselves the best luck by maybe not
making the right decisions. That’s part
of why the emotion is there – we’ve felt
this has been coming for a long time.”
It’s even longer for Jaguar when it comes
to overall major motorsport success. Its
last top international series victory came
in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship
at the Nurburgring, although it did take a
pair of IMSA Sportscar wins with Davy
Jones in 1992. Evans, at 24 years old, was
not even born back then.
But he could still add further glory to the
Jaguar legend. With his maiden win, which
continued his streak of taking points in all
seven races so far, Evans has catapulted
himself into title contention, just four
points off the lead in fourth.
POS DRIVER TEAM/CAR TIME
1 Mitch Evans (NZL) Jaguar / Jaguar I-TYPE 3 1h33m51.140s
2 Andre Lotterer (DEU) DS Techeetah / DS E-Tense FE19 +0.979s
3 Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) HWA / Venturi VFE-05 +6.399s
4 Robin Frijns (NLD) Virgin Racing / Audi e-tron FE05 +9.181s
5 Sebastien Buemi (CHE) Nissan e.Dams / Nissan IM01 +9.778s
6 Oliver Rowland (GBR) Nissan e.Dams / Nissan IM01 +11.262s
7 Lucas di Grassi (BRA) Audi Sport Abt / Audi e-tron FE05 +24.340s
8 Jerome d’Ambrosio (BEL) Mahindra Racing / Mahindra M5Electro +28.633s
9 Antonio Felix da Costa (PRT) BMW / BMW iFE.18 +30.651s
10 Pascal Wehrlein (DEU) Mahindra Racing / Mahindra M5Electro +30.735s
11 Sam Bird (GBR) Virgin Racing / Audi e-tron FE05 +32.272s
12 Alex Lynn (GBR) Jaguar / Jaguar I-TYPE 3 +42.238s
13 Oliver Turvey (GBR) NIO / NIO 004 +48.616s
14 Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA) DS Techeetah / DS E-Tense FE19 +49.732s
15 Tom Dillmann (FRA) NIO / NIO 004 +52.253s
16 Jose Maria Lopez (ARG) Dragon Racing / Penske EV-3 +1m10.373s
17 Alexander Sims (GBR) BMW / BMW iFE.18 +1m11.373s
18 Daniel Abt (DEU) Audi Sport Abt / Audi e-tron FE05 28 laps-not running
19 Maximilian Gunther (DEU) Dragon Racing / Penske EV-3 28 laps-not running
R Felipe Massa (BRA) Venturi / Venturi VFE-05 11 laps-transmission/driveshaft
R Edoardo Mortara (ITA) Venturi / Venturi VFE-05 8 laps-transmission/driveshaft
R Gary Paffett (GBR) HWA / Venturi VFE-05 0 laps-accident
Winner’s average speed 33.439mph. Fastest lap Vergne 1m31.016s, 70.537mph.SUPERPOLE 1 Lotterer 1m32.123s; 2 Evans 1m32.483s; 3 Lopez 1m32.906s; 4 Vandoorne 1m33.233s;
5 Gunther 1m35.640s; 6 Buemi 1m36.331s.QUALIFYING Lotterer 1m29.761s; Evans 1m29.942s; Lopez 1m30.099s;
Vandoorne 1m30.207s; Gunther 1m30.277s; Buemi 1m30.341s;
7 Mortara 1m30.397s; 8 Frijns 1m30.422s; 9 Wehrlein 1m30.609s; 10 Massa
1m30.623s; 11 Rowland 1m30.723s; 12 da Costa 1m30.804s; 13 Bird
1m30.880s; 14 di Grassi 1m30.977s; 15 Paffett 1m30.980s; 16 Vergne
1m31.016s; 17 Abt 1m31.043s; 18 Turvey 1m31.043s; 19 d’Ambrosio
1m31.192s; 20 Dillmann 1m31.220s; 21 Lynn 1m39.657s; 22 Sims 1m46.182s.CHAMPIONSHIP 1 d’Ambrosio 65; 2 da Costa 64; 3 Lotterer 62; 4 Evans 61;
5 di Grassi 58; 6 Frijns 55; 7 Vergne 54; 8 Bird 54; 9 Mortara 52; 10 Abt 44.NEXT REPORTPARIS, FRANCE
2 MAY ISSUE
Can Jaguar win
again as the title
battle heads
to France?