Jean-Eric Vergne of DS Penske received an action-packed Hyderabad E-Prix on Saturday, marking a profitable return of a high-profile motorsport occasion in India.

Vergne held off a powerful problem from Envison Racing’s Nick Cassidy to cross the chequered flag within the first place regardless of having lower than 0.5 % power left within the automotive.

Antonio Felix Da Costa of Porsche gained from a 17-second penalty handed out to Sebastian Buemi for ‘over energy’ to safe the ultimate spot on the rostrum.

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Mahindra Racing, of their first house race, recovered from an peculiar qualifying session earlier within the day to seal factors end through Oliver Rowland. He completed sixth from tenth on the grid whereas Lucas di Grassi got here 14th from seventeenth on the grid. Lack of power within the remaining moments of the race price Mahindra a double factors end.

Jake Hughes’ crash on lap 23 introduced out the protection automotive, contributing to an exciting end.

Mitch Evans of Jaguar Racing bagged the pole place however a collision along with his teammate Sam Chicken on Lap 13 successfully ended the race for the Tata Group-owned workforce.

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“So glad for the workforce. It has been a really troublesome three races and I couldn’t be extra pleased with my workforce as a result of we by no means gave up. We’ve an excellent automotive, could also be not finest in the intervening time however we by no means quit and preserve working onerous,” mentioned race winner Vergne.

A sizeable crowd turned as much as watch the electrical automobiles competing across the coronary heart of the town, masking Hussain Sagar Lake, NTR Gardens and NTR Park.

Within the qualifying held earlier than the race, Evans claimed pole place after beating within the remaining duel. Vergne himself was lucky to make the ultimate after dropping out to Chicken earlier, however lap deletions attributable to exceeding monitor limits meant Chicken, Rast and Edoardo Mortara bowed out within the duels stage.

The organisers raced in opposition to time to get the Hyderabad Road Circuit prepared for Components E’s debut in India however ultimately, they pulled off the occasion amid a whole lot of fanfare.

FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem was in attendance on the race together with different particular friends like Sachin Tendulkar, Shikhar Dhawan, Yuzvendra Chahal and sports activities minister Anurag Thakur.