Felipe Drugovich’s post-race penalty has stripped Andretti of its apparent first Formula E one-two in Sanya, promoting Pepe Marti to second and Antonio Felix da Costa back onto the podium.
Jake Dennis keeps the victory, but the story around Andretti’s breakthrough afternoon has changed sharply since the chequered flag. Drugovich had followed his team-mate home on the road after a chaotic Sanya E-Prix, only for a five-second penalty for contact with Pascal Wehrlein to drop him to fourth in the amended classification.
It means Marti, who had already salvaged a remarkable podium from deep on the grid, is now classified second, while da Costa returns to third after his own time penalty had initially cost him a place in the top three.
Sanya result changes after stewards call
The revised order follows a race that had already been pulled apart by incidents, Attack Mode timing and a red flag. ReadMotorsport covered how Sanya’s red-flag chaos hit Jaguar’s title day, with Mitch Evans among the contenders caught in the worst of the disruption.
Formula E’s own race report described Dennis taking control late on after the race swung through Rowland, da Costa and the Porsche runners, before the Briton converted Andretti’s pace into victory. The subsequent stewarding decision, reported in detail by The Race, means the initial Andretti one-two result no longer stands as a team first.
For Dennis, the essential championship gain remains intact. He still leaves Sanya with a win on a day when several leading title players failed to score. For Drugovich, though, the penalty turns what looked like a landmark rookie result into a costly fourth place.
The decision also continues a penalty-heavy Sanya weekend, coming after Taylor Barnard’s grid-drop rescue mission had already made stewarding one of the defining threads of the event.
Andretti still has the race win. It just no longer has the clean sweep that briefly made Sanya look like its most complete Formula E day.
