Da Costa (Porsche) wins the first Misano ePrix ahead of Rowland (Nissan), who leads the championship.

MISANO ADRIATICO – The first winner in Formula E in Misano Adriatico is the world champion, Portuguese Felix Antonio da Costa (Tag Heuer Porsche), who established himself under the eyes of his famous partner, CEO of Stellantis Carlos Tavares. Da Costa got ahead of his rivals after starting from the fourteenth position: undoubtedly an amazing comeback, even if on the track of Romagna – where the electric cycle stopped for the first time (and will be repeated tomorrow) – energy management proved to be the most important than the beginning. space.

Mitch Evans (Jaguar Tcs), the politician, had to settle for sixth place in a hotly contested race with five laps to go. In order to protect the full capacity of the battery, in the first half of the race (and more) we set “trip out of town” times: the first lap, for example, was 20 seconds slower than the qualifying session (about 1:37 vs. of 1:17). The final lap was logged with a time under 1:20, which is exactly the same as the power of a single seater without Attack Mode on.

Thanks to the fourth podium in a row, Oliver Rowland of Great Britain, second by Nissan as Tokyo, goes to sleep as the first in the standings. The result that the Italian Tommaso Volpe, number one in the activities of the Japanese manufacturer, expected and which satisfies him for the efforts of recent years, when he first pushed to take over the e.dams team and then to revolutionize its structure, as well as to move its headquarters. Jake Dennis (Andretti), the reigning world champion, finished third at the wheel of the Porsche 99X Electric: a recovery of 14 places for him as well (he had started seventeenth).

Maximilian Günther, German Maserati veteran since the Japanese victory, he remained at the bottom of the podium, followed by the amazing Dan Ticktum, who gave the Chinese Ert the best position of the season: fifth. The team is also celebrating Sergio Sette Camara’s seventh place, ahead of Jean Eric Vergne (Ds Penske), who dominated the night before the race with the best times in free practice, in qualifying for his group with only Evans winning. and in fighting for Pole. Also in ten are Norman Nato (Andretti) and third Porsche and Stoffel Vandoorne (Ds Penske) and third single-seater Stellantis.

The seventh EPrix of the tenth season takes place on Sunday while Rowland leads the world championship with 73 points, 5 points ahead of Dennis and 10 ahead of Pascal Wehrlein (Tag Heuer Porsche), who like Nick Cassidy (Jaguar Tcs), second runner-up and now fourth (61), touched and end up in the back. Günther is fifth with 60. Thanks to his ninth success in Formula E, da Costa has 45 points (5 less than Evans, sixth, and 2 more than Vergne, eighth) and seems to have finally completed his journey of ” growth”: after retiring from the first race, 16th, 14th, 6th and 4th came in order. And who knows, maybe it was news of the tests carried out by Nico Müller, the Swiss from Abt Cupra, with the Lightning 99X that pushed him to the top step of the podium.