The second season of the FIA Formula E Championship has come to a close, and we have been rewarded with two dramatic races.
We’ve seen a Prost and Senna front row, a first lap collision between the two contenders for the Drivers’ Championship, as well as some rain earlier into the weekend.
While Sebastien Buemi did well to clinch the second Drivers’ Championship of the Formula E series, my star driver of the London ePrix weekend has to go to his teammate, Nico Prost.
Before heading to London, Prost wasn’t looking as impressive as his Swiss teammate. His last win had come at the Miami ePrix in March 2015, his last pole position being at the second ever ePrix held in late 2014. A lucky third place in Mexico City had given the Frenchman his best result of the season.
But you could see on Saturday that Prost was out to impress. The Renault e.dams car looked mightily impressive at Battersea Park from the first practice session. He got lucky to be able to set his Saturday qualifying lap in the dry unlike Buemi and Di Grassi, but he was miles ahead of everyone else in the Super Pole group.
With pole position under his belt for the race on Saturday and Bruno Senna to the side of him, Prost was untroubled from start to finish even with the safety car appearance. He thoroughly deserved his second win in Formula E.
The same can be said for Sunday. While he wasn’t over five tenths slower than his teammate in the Super Pole group of qualifying, he was still able to keep ahead of Di Grassi. With Di Grassi taking Buemi and himself out of the points positions, it became Prost’s race to lose.
Again the safety car came out, this time on multiple different occasions, but the Frenchman kept his cool to finish well ahead of Abt Schaeffler’s Daniel Abt. The cameras were focused on the action behind, but Prost did a lot right to win two races in two days.
While it was his teammate who won the Drivers’ Championship, it was Prost who sealed the Teams’ Championship for Renault e.dams. Before London he was under pressure, even with two fourth placed finished before. This weekend he’s shown us what he’s made of.
