Season 1 Miami E-Prix Full Race Replay | Formula E

39 laps of racing are waiting for us, round 5 of the championship. The cars are on the grid. Everyone's in position now. The heart rates are just starting to go up. And that's just me. Here come the lights. The 5th round of the Formula E Championship about to get underway. All the lights are on and we go green in Miami. Good start from Verne. Good start as well from Sam Bird. He might be able to challenge on the run down into Turn 1. But it's Verne who has the lead. It's 3 wide for 2nd place. Sam Bird looking to the inside of Nico Prost and there's contact there. Verne, can he get it stopped in time? Just about. He was clouded on the back from Nico Prost. But I think Prost will hold on to that 2nd place for the time being. On board we go with Daniel Apps and Prost does hold on to 2nd. Bird 3rd, Apps 4th as they fly around underneath the MacArthur Causeway. Then up towards the right-hander at Museum Park. Turn 4 and then back out onto the long Biscayne Boulevard once again. But everyone's made a nice clean start, have they? Loic Duval's getting pretty feisty trying to force his way past Antonio Felix da Costa. Here comes Sam Bird looking to the inside line. We've got side-by-side further up and Bird goes through. Sam Bird takes 2nd position away from Nico Prost. The Englishman up to 2nd. There was a move going on further back. I think it was one of the Amlin Aguri cars. But great move from Bird. But Jean-Éric Verne is leading the way, Dario. I see Bird now trying to chase down Jean-Éric Verne. Great move on the first lap there. They're still 2 wide further back in the field here. I think we're going to see that all day long. So you can see the order on the left-hand side. Charles Pic has had a spin and I'm just trying to figure out where that is. I think that's Turn 5, isn't it? Yeah, he's gone too deep at Turn 5. Yellow flag comes out briefly, but he's back underway. So Verne, Bird, Prost, Ap, Sarazan, Degrassi, Piquet Jr., D'Ambrosio, Speed and Duran, the top 10. The big losers there. No one really sticks out. It was a pretty line of stern on the way down. And look at that, a bit of a dart being made further back from Scott Speed as he tries to get past the car in front. Yeah, Speed's defending a little bit there into Turn 1. Yep, that was him battling with Jerome D'Ambrosio because he's got Salvador Duran right up behind him, the Mexican driver trying to fight a way past. We're on lap 2 of 39 here. This is out the far end of the circuit underneath the Macaulay Causeway and then back down Biscayne Boulevard. Jean-Éric Verne has got the fan boost as well. Just kept in his pocket both cars. He's got it just for when he needs it. Looks like Karun Chandhok's lining up a move here further back. Here comes Salvador Duran. Is he going to get that stop? Side by side through the corner they come. Who comes out on top? It's still side by side, but I think Scott Speed is going to be in front of Duran just about. Now up into the right-hander, the final corner on the circuit. Duran gets the cutback, but that is a permanent yellow flag zone at this corner because that's where pit lane exit is. There'll be no overtaking into that corner for the whole race, but it's not really an overtaking opportunity. It is too tight there. And then we see them go over the train tracks and coming up to Turn 8. Everybody's behaving themselves so far. Everybody's probably still using full power, and then it's going to start splitting as people start doing more and more regen, that kind of thing. Duran's on fan boost. Yeah, so here comes Salvador Duran using his fan boost. Looks to the outside of Scott Speed. Speed knew he had to defend there, and that is Duran's chance to use that 30 kilowatts gone. Speed just about keeps it out of the barriers, but he's becoming a bit of a moving roadblock at the moment because everyone else is starting to get queued up behind him. And there's a yellow flag out there somewhere on the circuit. Turn 6, yellow flag. Okay, so that was someone just running wide. Hopefully we'll try and pick up what happened there. But here's Jean-Éric Vergne. Fastest man on that last lap was Sam Bird, the man in second position. There you can see a one-minute 10.746 as Sebastian Buemi tries to make up some places, as does Antonio Felix da Costa. So very, very busy in these opening laps. That yellow flag, I'm not quite sure what it was for because I think everyone's still in the queue. Nico Prost has just set the fastest lap time of anyone. There's only one and a half seconds between the top three. But now I think we're going to sort of settle down a little bit into a bit of a rhythm. And there you can see, we'll also see the percentage there. That is the usable energy remaining. If you look at your phone, that's the percentage that tells you before your phone's going to die. So they're all on sort of similar amounts at the moment. Nelson Piquet Jr. is doing quite a good job in seventh place of preserving that energy. Which he did in the previous races too, didn't he? He's been very, very good at that. Yeah. The trick is to use it when it counts. Yeah. And Nico Prost is using it quite hard in these early stages, in third place at the moment. But setting the fastest lap of anyone. It was all quite close coming through there. Didn't quite catch who that battle was between. That was sort of Alguersuari-Duran sort of territory. Yeah, and Speed's still holding them up. So, yeah, and Lutz is out there pretty close there too. I tell you what, Jean-Éric Vergne's going defensive into the left-hander of Turn 5 because he has got Sam Bird right up behind him. We saw Sam Bird move past Aurel Servia and take the lead of the race in Malaysia with a nicely executed move. And Jean-Éric Vergne is feeling the pressure now. Sam's got to be careful doing that, though. If he overlaps like that, we'll have a situation as we had in, I believe, Uruguay, where one guy forced another into the wall. Yeah. He does look a good bit quicker here. Jean-Éric Vergne's job here right now is to stay in the lead using the minimum amount of power. So, again, when he's under attack, he can use it. But Sam looks very strong. Yeah, Bird was half a second quicker, you can see there, on that last lap than Jean-Éric Vergne in front of him. Lucas di Grassi's just set the fastest lap of the race. The man in 6th position in the queue. You can see the standings there on the left-hand side of the screen. But it's Jean-Éric Vergne in that blue and white Andretti car who's leading the way from the silver and purple virgin machine of Sam Bird with Nico Prost in the yellow and blue Edams car in 4th position. Daniel Abt is sticking with them quite well. He's doing a nice job. And Sarazan's doing well as well. Yeah. Daniel Abt's doing a very, very nice job. This is the highest up we've seen Sarazan run in quite a while, I would say. Yeah. He's had the speed, he's just had terrible luck. Certainly. And so have the whole Venturi team, really. It's been very difficult for them. Into the left-hander comes Jean-Éric Vergne into Turn 5. After starting from pole position, you can see the gap back there. The speed's gapped, yeah, and the UC's got past Salvador Durán. Here's a look at the start, and Vergne immediately chopped across. It wasn't a good start from Nico Prost, and he had Sam Bird on the inside line. But look at going into Turn 1. Prost hits Jean-Éric Vergne. I don't quite see it from that angle, but you will from here. Jean-Éric Vergne leading the way, but Prost leaves his braking too late, taps Vergne. Vergne gets all out of shape, but somehow they manage to survive and get round there. Bird will be frustrated. He couldn't make the most of that, but he did get past in the end. That was well held by Vergne there. And we'll see a great shot here on board with... and Bruno Senna's using his fan boost at the moment, but we will just stick with this, with Daniel Abt, because he got a great start, but this is where it tightens, and he had to back out of it, but... Whoa! So maybe he... Everyone just hit everyone. Look how close they are though. And if you can't see where the tip of that nose is, we're a good bit higher than him, probably a foot higher. We still can't see where the tip of the nose is. And this is a view from a little bit further back in the pack. This is my favourite camera. Yeah. It's great, isn't it? So it's behind Lucas di Grassi. So this is the on board, I think, from Jaime Alguersua at Nelson Piquet. So this is Nelson Piquet Jr's on board coming down into the first corner. And he really has to back out of it. And he actually kept his nose pretty clean there. Didn't get too close. Oh, until now. Goodness. Then he tries to stick it around the outside of di Grassi. And then this is, again, further back in the field. Nick Heidfeld, yeah. Yeah, Nick Heidfeld's on board. He started 19th on the grid, so that's Charles Pic up in front of him. Didn't get a great start. You can see Karun Chandhok there is on the right-hand side, and he's went barrelling in to try and make up positions in that first corner. Heidfeld sticks his nose in. The frustrating point is that there's nowhere to go. You can make a great start, eventually there's nowhere to go unless you want to do something that's very marginal. Then you end up losing a wing or even ending up taking a corner off or something. So it's easy for us to say. But when the adrenaline's flowing, it's much more difficult to do. So back to the racing. Jean-Éric Vergne is leading the way still. Half a second clear of Sandberg in front of him. There's a great big battle going on here. Bruno Senna just set the fastest lap of the race on that last lap, but he did use the fan boost. We saw that pop up whilst we were watching the replays. He's currently running in 13th place, Senna trying to get past Sebastien Buemi in front of him. But here's our race leader Jean-Éric Vergne, and he's used a reasonable amount less, more energy than the guys behind him. And we saw that in Uruguay. He was very, very hard on his energy consumption. Absolutely. You know, speed's looking pretty good right now, but Bird and Frost, yeah, you've got to say they're in a slightly better position. Jean-Éric Vergne has the fan boost, but if he uses it, he's going to use more power. So he's kind of put himself in a position here. That's Jerome D'Ambrosio running in 8th place with Scott Speed behind in 9th position. So Speed has started to get a little bit back on the pace, I think, and closing on the guys in front of him because for a while there, it looked like he was a little bit further back, but he's running in 9th place. Loic Duval has just set the fastest lap of the race and closed into the back of Bruno Senna. That's impressive from Duval because he doesn't have a fan boost, so he's just using all his natural speed. Look how close it is. It looks like he's just thinking, OK, you're starting to help me up here. Time to set up for a pass. Down Piscain Boulevard once more towards turn number 5. You know, as soon as he sets up for a move, you're going to see Vergne look in the mirror and go, and hit the fan boost. Absolutely, that's very true. So we're on board with Stéphane Sarrazin looking back at the man behind him, which is Lucas di Grassi, the championship leader in 6th position as they burst back out into the Florida sunshine to start lap 9 of 39. There you can see the readout on the right-hand side. So the right-hand tower is the power usage. You can see he's just using less than 150, more like 140 kW of power. And then in the middle, it's the usable energy he's got remaining, which at the moment is 57%. He's maximum regen on the braking there for turn 8, which is not a particularly heavy braking zone, so he's definitely got the regen turned up on that thing. And the regen is similar to the Formula 1 system, where you can recover the energy that would normally be lost under braking back into your battery. So it's an important part of Formula E. We're on lap 9 of 39 here. Jean-Éric Vergne leading the way, but he's still just in front of Sam Bird. And I presume if you're Sam Bird, what you're trying to do is force him into using a fan boost and then take it from there. Yeah, you're forcing him into using any amount of power you can. And if you do get to use a fan boost, you're thinking, okay, that's one down. He's got to use a fan boost in this car the first half of the race, though. So ultimately it comes down to momentum as well. You've got to keep the momentum up, and I think Sam is probably doing a better job. Oh, a bit of a Loic Duval. Yeah, that was Loic Duval trying to get past Bruno Senna in the battle over 13th place, but he's not quite close enough. Tonio Liuzzi is starting to hold up Salvador Duran behind. So they've swapped places, hadn't they, earlier on whilst they were battling behind Scott Speed, and I think that's what's allowed Speed to get away a little bit because Liuzzi is holding up Duran. But there are our top two again, and great to see a packed grandstand here in Miami. As the cars come across the line, there you can see Verne still has used slightly more energy than the other guys, but not notably more. But we'll have to wait and see how it patterns out in the remainder of the race as we go on to lap 10 of 39. After this, we go to Long Beach over in L.A. in April, then it's a trip to Monaco, Berlin, Moscow, and then a doubleheader in London at the end of June to complete this first season. There's Charles Pic after his moment. He's a backmarker, but this is the race-leading battle coming down towards Turn 5 now, and Sam Bird, he's not letting him go. It's going to be a relentless pace up at the front, and these races always seem the tougher ones. If you've got a bit of a cushion, you can relax, but this is just non-stop. Yes, Sam is going to keep the pressure on all day long if he can. He's going to absolutely push Jean-Éric Verne as much as he possibly can to put in any mistake, to use as much power. And as it gets closer to the end of the run, and this car, they know how much usable power they've got, I think business is going to pick up a little bit. Yeah, that's what we tend to see in these Formula E races, is that the first half is a little calmer, but then when you know where you are and what you can do in the second half of the race, everyone goes on the full attack. They need to be also careful because if Charles Pic could come into this lead, battle him a bit. Yeah, if they catch him in the wrong part of the track and he's not looking in his mirrors, absolutely. Got to watch for battery temps. It is warm out there. I know we're sitting in an air-conditioned commentary booth, which is very pleasant. It's very rare. Yeah, exactly. It's really hot out there. And so the battery temp might come in. Oh, here's Loic Duval trying to get past Senna on the run down into Turn 1. He's got up alongside, but he'll be on the outside line for the next two corners. And he can't quite get past. And he needs to be careful because Antonio Felix da Costa is right behind him. And what we've seen here is you make a move sometimes, you end up losing more places. You end up losing two or three spots rather than gaining one. And Senna really helped him there because Loic kind of put the nose in, but not quite. And Senna obviously was very heads up, saw him and gave him the room. You can hear there the lift and coast that Loic Duval's doing. It's when the engine noise goes away and sort of feathers a little bit. Let's listen for it here coming into this corner. Yeah, look, he's coasting. You hear the sort of engine noise sort of go to a whisper without actually being on fully braking. And you can also see in the bottom right that regen thing that's flashing green. That shows you when he's using the regenerative braking. Duval is very experienced at managing energy with the WEC, with driving with Audi, and he's doing a really good job there. He can't go anywhere, so he might as well just be regen and just sit there. Oh, he's got a good run here, though. He has. He's doing a really good job, actually. Really impressive. Down he comes towards the first corner. This is where he tried to attack Senna last time around. Senna's not going to give him any room at all. There's an attack going on in front, and that is Antonio Liuzzi losing out to Sebastian Buemi. So Buemi goes through up into 11th place, past Antonio Liuzzi. And now Buemi can set about trying to get a little bit further up the order, because at the moment he's outside the points, and he's third in the championship. Meanwhile, Lucas di Grassi, the championship leader, is in sixth spot. Buemi's having a tough time. I expected him to come through the field a little bit quicker, but, you know, he's still got a good bit to go, 27 laps. There is Loic Duval, 2013 World Endurance Champion, 2013 Le Mans winner as well, with Adam McNish and Tom Christensen in the Audi. Look, they're all just half-hearted looking at moves every single corner almost, except this one, because this corner is under constant yellow flags, because it's very narrow on the exit, and you've got the pit lane exit there. But there's Jay Penske, the man in charge of the dragon racing team, watching on as his man Loic Duval tries to make up some positions in that black and silver car. Now Liuzzi driving the Trulli car has a Trulli train behind him. Maybe it's a prerequisite of being a driver there, but let's see what Senna can do now, because he's the next man to try and challenge Antonio Liuzzi coming down into the left-hander. He's not quite close enough. The gap at the front is still half a second, and then seven-tenths of a second back to Prost, so that is as you were at the moment. There they are, coming down into Turn 5. Sam Bird is good at this. He's very patient, and he really, as we saw in Malaysia with his win there, he works the battery so well. He did, did really well in Malaysia, I thought. He made a mistake in Punta del Este that he owned up to, but he's, as I've said it many times, I like the style which Sam drives a car there. I have to say, Charles Pic is doing a great job to stay ahead of these guys, but now just catching him, that's quite impressive. Yeah, that's very true. We don't know how much battery he's using, because clearly he's a lap behind, so he's not in the running. He might just want to turn up the wick and show what he can do. So this is the run down where they started along the start straight. There is Charles Pic moving out of the way on the run down into the 90-degree left-hander. Bird, he was a bit out of shape there, wasn't he, on the brakes? He was, and Daniel Abt just got held up a little bit as well by Charles Pic. So this is where it loops around under MacArthur Causeway, which is the main road that takes you out to Miami Beach. Then turn right here, which is in front of the museum and Museum Park tube station, or monorail station, I should say. Back down Biscayne Boulevard and towards the left-hand turn. And look at this. It's fantastic to see so many people, isn't it? Yeah, it really is. Miami's a city that loves racing and a load of people have showed up today for this. And then back around towards the right-hander and interesting, that's where the pit boards are going out. Just on the left-hand side as we look at it on the run down towards the final corner. So they had to find somewhere to actually hang the pit boards out because of these street circuits it can be quite difficult to find somewhere particularly appropriate for when he's past Duran and up in place now. So that's happened out on the lap somewhere. Here comes Loic Duval on the attack again but he's unable to get past Tonio Liuzzi because that was the yellow flag corner. But watch out for Duval I'd say going down that back straight. He's looking. No, too far back. Through the kink and in front of Freedom Tower there on the left-hand side built in 1925 as the headquarters of the Miami newspaper. He's got a good run here, hasn't he? Let's see how much he's going to get blocked by Liuzzi. Yeah, Liuzzi's defending. Nah, not quite enough. He's not really risking anything here, is he? No, we're only on lap 15 of 39. We're approaching the sort of halfway mark. Daniel Apt has just set the fastest middle sector of anyone. I love this bit as they come sort of under the underpass. It's really cool. That one corner, that two-three has become one corner as the speeds have picked up. I like that. That's the kind of corner I would enjoy driving there. Look at Tonio Liuzzi looking in his mirrors trying to look to the right-hand side as he tries to keep an eye out on where Loic Duval is. Tonio Liuzzi was pretty much on holiday in Miami and then he suddenly got a call-up from Jarno Trulli saying, seen as he's here, do you want to drive this weekend? And he said, well, I haven't got a helmet. Trulli said, I'll lend you a helmet. And so they've had to paint it this morning. Duval tries to get past but again, this is the yellow flag corner so he's not quite able to get through. I think Liuzzi's done a great job. Yeah. He really has. And so has Scott Speed. You know, the minimal experience of jumping straight in got on with it and Duval picked it up very quickly. Qualifying wasn't good for him. Da Costa looks quite close now. He's going to start putting some pressure on him. Yeah. And then you've got to start looking both forward and backward. What's going here? This is Bruno Senna going past Salvador Duran. Nice moves there by Bruno. Coming down into the left-hander and that is 11th place now for Bruno Senna. Tonio Liuzzi going defensive into turn number one again. Loic Duval right up behind him but the top nine cars are covered by six seconds. Then there's a bit of a gap back. Look at this. Werns used, got 19% of usable energy remaining. It's not too much out of the game. If anything, it's Nico Prost who has the most remaining in that sort of top six. It's been that consistent 2% difference, hasn't it, really, between them and will that become an issue? That's the problem. How tight are they going to cut it here as it comes to pit stop time? Have to wait and see. Here comes Duval on the attack. That's a lovely, decisive move into the final corner. He's been looking at that for the past five laps, hasn't he? And he just screwed up his courage there. Lovely move. Yeah, that was really good from Loic Duval. He moves up now into 13th position and Liuzzi's got an awful lot of usable energy that he has used. But look at this. Inside. Great move. Watch him disappear now. Watch him drive off down the road. Yeah, he's going to be up on the back of Salvador Duran before too long. A very early move and slides past at the inside. Karun Chandhok is under investigation. We're being told by race control. Not 100% sure why, but we'll try and find out. But here are our race leaders still. Jean-Éric Vergne under relentless pressure from Sam Bird. And there's the focus of a man who knows all about pressure as the two lock up, both of them, coming into Turn 5. This is non-stop up at the front. Sam looks like he can get close whenever he wants to. Yeah. He can close that gap down, which bodes well. It bodes very well for him in the second part. You know, Vergne has not used the back of his jet, has he? No. He's still got it sitting there, but again, that's going to use extra power. He's probably not, doesn't feel the need to use it at this point. 17 laps down, 22 laps to go, so I predict we have a couple more laps before they start to come in to the pit lane. Sébastien Buemi on that last lap set the fastest lap of anyone because he's in clear air now, six seconds behind the man in front who is Scott Speed. And there you can see 1 minute 8.835, so Buemi is really starting to turn the wick up. As soon as we have a race with no cautions and with no safety cars, it then becomes an issue with really managing the power. Oh, lock-up from John-Eric Vergne again. He's the man leading this race in that blue and white Andretti car. Andretti Sports Marketing, the sister arm of Autosport, have put on this event here and he's the man leading the way. Behind him in the silver, purple and red machine is the virgin car of Sam Bird and then third in that blue and yellow car. Oh, Sarazan! Has Sarazan hit the wall? He's made a mistake coming out of turn five, pulls to the inside line to try and defend from Lucas di Grassi. Has he hit? He certainly looks very, very slow coming out of turn number five. Not quite sure if the car's crabbing but a mistake was made and that has allowed Sarazan to put... We've seen how fast these guys can drive the cars when they've bashed them off the wall and they're crabbing. It's been every round so far we've seen it. Has he seen it? I can't see the side of the car there to see if he has actually damaged it. But as I was saying, as the pit stops come Verne is going to try everything though to gap. Oh, here's the attack from Sam Bird almost side by side coming down to the first corner. That's exactly what you mentioned earlier. Trying to get that overlap on the outside and you end up in the wall and here's an attack from Bird. There's contact between them. So it's getting really, really feisty now for the lead of the race. Lap 19 of 39. Bird is pushing. Not too much damage on the nose cone there but there was almost certainly contact. Trying to hear the Verne radio there but it's not quite working out. Here comes Bird. He's got alongside and he's going to take the lead of the race up the inside into Turn 5. Sam Bird leads. Verne will try and get the cutback. I didn't get your energy reading. So down they come into the final corner and Verne pits. So Verne decides to go straight into the pits. Clever. 0.9. Because that is Sam Bird giving his energy reading as he's trying to overtake. That's low. I mean he's going to he might have to do a little bit more. 4%. 3% remaining. Yeah that could be an issue. Oh goodness me. Here's a look at the replay. Beautiful pass though. Yeah. Got out there early. Verne tried to muscle him a little bit. Sam was having none of it. As you can see they came out of the corner and Bird just went made the move early and Verne realised he couldn't get across in time. Nice decisive pass there. Really good. That's what we've seen from Bird. We saw it in Malaysia. When the time comes to make the move he makes the move. So we've got Verne, Abt, Sarazan, Degrassi, D'Ambrosio, Buemi, Senna, Duran, Alguersuari and Chanduk all in the pits. And that is that is that Bird? It's a Virgin going slowish. No it's not. I don't I hope. Maybe it's Alguersuari. Yeah Alguersuari's in the pits. So Sam Bird has run into problems out there. Something's gone wrong with Sam Bird. Is he having has he got too little usable energy? It looks like the best strategy. Maybe he was meant to come into the pits on that lap but he was so busy trying to overtake. 0.1 0.1%. So that is a disaster for Sam Bird. Prost is out there running very low but he's just made it back to the pits. So Sam Bird presumably was meant to come in on that lap got so busy trying to make an overtake. And Piquet has 90% left. Goodness me. So Nelson Piquet Jr. this has worked out very well for. So out of the pits has gone Daniel Abt and Lucas Degrassi and the like but that is a disaster for Sam Bird. Took the lead in the race so decisively but now he's run out of his usable energy in that car. Hopefully he hasn't gone over the limit. We'll have to try and get Nicky to find out if that's the case. In comes Loic Duval but Nelson Piquet Jr. is still out there. That's the impressive part of this race so far. And he's going to have to do less laps than everybody else therefore could turn up the width a little bit. So was this a very nice move from Nelson Piquet Jr.? We'll have to wait and see. So he's currently in the lead of the race. Nick Heidfeld hasn't pitted either at the moment. There is Piquet Jr. heading down the back straight as Scotspeed waits to head out of the pits. And there is Sam Bird. I heard an exclamation from Michael Andretti. It doesn't sound a positive one either as Scotspeed exited the pits. Piquet Jr. So here's a look then. Let's try and figure out what's happened. So the two Abt cars are in front of Jean-Eric Vergne. Oh, just coming out of the pit lane there! Side by side! We'll see what happens. Vergne out just in front of Scotspeed but the two Abt cars are in front. I think Nico Prost is in front of them but we'll try and no, Prost is in the middle of the two Abt cars. So Daniel Abt is ahead of Prost who's ahead of Degrassi who's ahead of Vergne with Nelson Piquet Jr. and Nick Heidfeld yet to pit. So at the moment it's a net lead of the race I believe for Daniel Abt depending on what happens with Piquet who's in the pit lane now. That's Charles Piquet. That's Charles Piquet, sorry. But no, he is. It's still true but he's just over the other side of the garage. So that's Charles Piquet who's a lap down. Doesn't matter. Over on the right-hand side it's Nelson Piquet Jr. We're following the guy that's a lap down. It's alright. He still wants to do his stop. But here's Daniel Abt then. The battle is between Daniel Abt and Nelson Piquet Jr. to come out in the lead of the race into the left-hander of Turn 5. Look as they come up to Turn 7 here. That's the point. Who's going to get to the exit of Turn 7 first? Into the right-hander comes Daniel Abt has Nelson Piquet Jr. left the pit lane yet. Yes, there he goes. I think Abt's going to lead there. Yes, I do. Agreed. Into the right-hander comes Daniel Abt and he moves into what should be the lead of the race. But Nick Heidfeldt is still out there and is yet to pit. I hope he's pitted because he was at 0% there. Right, OK. Well, he's still out on the circuit and hasn't made his pit stop yet. So Nick Heidfeldt is still on the circuit. So there's Sam Bird. He is now right up behind is that Nelson Piquet Jr. I think who's just come out of the pit lane. They go side by side. Yes, it is. Bird on the attack trying to get past Nelson Piquet Jr. in the battle over what is now 8th place. Karud Chandog has a penalty. Drive-through penalty just to make his day worse. He's not having a good day. No, and that's for using maximum power. Here's Heidfeldt in the pits. So it'll be Daniel Abt or Nick Heidfeldt who is leading this Miami E-Prix at the end of this pit stop window. 17 laps to go. There's our race leaders at the moment. Daniel Abt, Nico Prost, Lucas di Grassi, Jean-Éric Vergne, Scott Speed. Brilliant performance from Speed. But where is Nick Heidfeldt going to come out in all of this? I think he'll be further back because he started in 19th on the grid but he might be able to get himself up solidly inside the top 10. Yes, so through goes Daniel Abt into the lead of the race. 2nd place is Nico Prost, 3rd is Lucas di Grassi, 4th is Jean-Éric Vergne, 5th is Scott Speed, 6th is Jerome D'Ambrosio, 7th is Sam Bird, and 8th is Nelson Piquet Jr. And then it's Sébastien Buemi. So out goes Heidfeldt. He hasn't gained that much. There's the two Amelina Goury cars coming through the right-hander. Sam Bird doesn't have the fat boost but I think he'll be powered by red this time after that mess up. Absolutely. He's just done the fastest first sector of anyone as if to prove the point. So that is Stéphane Sarrazin who's in 19th place but here's our race leader, Daniel Abt for the Abt Sport team. Right behind him is Nico Prost but Abt has used quite a lot of usable energy already. Prost has got a good 6% more. Prost at speed look in good shape here don't they? Yeah, so now this second half of the race is going to get very interesting because it's the first half to a certain extent. But look at Piquet Jr. He's 92%. Yeah, that's very true. But he's 9th place and not on the back of this gang. That'll take some doing. Yeah, don't care how much power you've got. Unless there's a safety car now. Salvador Duran has just set the fastest first sector of anyone. And we go on board now with Scott Speed. 85% of his usable energy remaining. You can see the power on the right-hand side. He's using about 140 kilowatts at the moment. Using the regen as he comes under the braking for the right-hander of Freedom Tower. Shifting up through the gears. Right up behind his teammate Jean-Éric Vergne. And I think if he follows Jean-Éric Vergne home that would be a very satisfactory day for Scott Speed. Yeah, but he's a racing driver. The first thing he wants to do is beat his teammate. Yeah, that's very true. So Jean-Éric Vergne running in fourth place. His teammate Scott Speed in fifth. Great performance from the Andretti squad. But they'll be frustrated that Vergne couldn't come out in the lead of the race. Did you see how close Scott Speed was to the apex while they're in turn two? Yeah, incredible. It's one of those once you close your eyes and open them and think oh, I didn't hit it. Speed's actually pretty close to the back of Vergne as they come down towards turn five. He's not going to oh, he's going for it. Speed's going for it on his teammate and he goes through. That is going to be a very annoyed Jean-Éric Vergne because he's just been passed by Scott Speed his teammate down towards the right hander they come. Vergne sticking there but Speed is through and up into fourth position with 5% more usable energy remaining. If you're Scott Speed you've got to go. You've clearly got a bit in hand on your teammate. And this isn't team orders is it? No, no, absolutely not. Because that's he came from quite a way back there. That's a great overtaking move there. Well done. Great to have Scott Speed here in the championship and he's up into fourth position the American driver in Miami. And Vergne they were pretty close to each other there and Vergne had to back out of it tried to get the cutback but it didn't quite work out for him. Nelson Piquet Jr. has just set the fastest lap of anyone and is right up behind Sebastien Buemi. That was a bit of a nervy time I think for Rob there. Yeah, let's see Michael's face. You can normally tell quite a lot from Michael's face if he's happy or not but Scott Speed's driving away. Yeah, so You know, he's paying him to drive the car he's paying him to get out Oh, almost almost into the wall there for Scott Speed on the exit of fourth. So here's Daniel App the race leader right up behind him is Nico Prost there in second place and in third place is App's team mate Lucas di Grassi. And then 1.6 seconds further back is the American Scott Speed trying to claw in on the German the Frenchman and the Brazilian up in front of him. 26 of 39 14 laps to go here in Miami the fifth round of the FIA Formula E Championship there's Lucas di Grassi flashing through and Prost is close Prost is close Yeah, he beat 2 tenths in the last lap, didn't he? He certainly did as they come underneath the the swimming pool balcony once again over where they started the race which is halfway around the lap. So let's take stock Daniel App leads the way Prost in second di Grassi third speed Verne D'Ambrosio Bird, Buemi, Piquet Jr and da Costa the top ten Bruno Senna's had to come into the pits again so he must have a bit of a problem Jean-Éric Vergne lost the time in the pit stops he was 7 seconds slower in the pit lane than he needed to be and that's the race over for Bruno Senna by the looks of things real shame for the Mahindra team but Jean-Éric Vergne was 7 seconds slower in the pits than he needed to be and he's 4.5 seconds off the lead of the race and those that's why it's so important Yeah, I just I don't get that one did he get held up exiting? I don't know we'll have to maybe if Niki's in that area she can try and find out for us but there's Daniel App the race leader and what a result this would be for Daniel App because he's had a tough season so far and that was that was Nico Prost coming over giving some energy giving some energy readings a little out of breath there yeah I think you hopefully you've not just given Daniel App the commentator's curse there probably yeah you'd make the change to me doing it OK, so Nico Prost is on target by the sounds of it as he comes through the left-hander of Turn 1 up onto 11th Street then round this double right-hand holding station here really, aren't they? Prost looks quite dangerous you'd have to say he's just close enough the great thing about this aero package of the Formula E cars they can run really close to each other they're not so aero sensitive that you start getting all the wash and all that nonsense you can get right up close to the car in front Scott Speed was the man who nailed the pit lane speed time because he was in there for 63 seconds exactly and that's the minimum time so that's how he went from sort of 10th all the way up to what is now 4th position I think that might explain Michael Andretti's exclamation that he was thinking oh no, we've done it too quickly possibly yeah but it's worked out alright in the end lap 28 of 39 here in Miami 12 laps to go in the 5th Formula E race of the season after this we go to Long Beach we go to Monaco we go to Berlin we go to Moscow and then we finish in London around Battersea Park at the end of June and these are our top three cars at the moment it's all very calm and collected at the moment but Nico Prost will be desperate to win a race he's only had one podium finish which was last time out in Buenos Aires despite two qualifying pole positions I've been looking at the Venturi guys again a day that really it was so much maybe expected now they're 15th and 18th yeah well Sarazan ended up with the problem as well yeah which was a shame and so these are the top three pulling away but you're absolutely right about Venturi it just doesn't come together I know they say you make your own luck but it seems to be for no luck you know nothing to do with their own yeah, who knows Degrassi just just closed up half a second on that last lap so it's we're looking at a three-way fight here for the lead and Scott Speed Scott yeah Scott Speed's making some inroads there at 8.8 last lap so he caught just over half a second on the leaders yeah, that's very true so the gap is down to just 1.2 seconds just trying to we have the team radio open basically so if they talk we hear it Frost has got 6% more energy to use as does Scott Speed yeah so that is true so they are looking in a very very strong position that beep you hear that sort of bloop is them pressing the radio button and then they either talk or they don't talk so apologies if we talk over it sometimes but it's really cool to have it live with all the buildings yeah sometimes as well you just cannot hear with all the buildings and you get out of range of the radio and yeah trust me the drivers on the teams will be as frustrated as we are not being able to hear and this is now a four way battle for the lead of the Miami E-Prix you've got the two yellow and red cars the Brazilians of Lucas di Grassi in third in the lead of the race is Daniel Amp in the middle of them is the blue and yellow car of Nico Frost in second place and joining the party at the back is the American Andretti Autosport car of Scott Speed in his first ever FIA Formula E race and he is really starting to close in now and we saw him make that move on his teammates so convincingly and another 4 tenths that lap yeah yeah the gap is down to just 9 tenths of a second the top four covered by 2.1 seconds so with 10 laps to go it's really really starting to ramp up here in Miami Jean-Éric Vergne has just done a personal best in the first so Vergne's lost out to Jerome D'Ambrosio as well so Jerome D'Ambrosio has got up into 5th place for the Dragon Team past Jean-Éric Vergne we missed that Sam Bird's in 7th place Nelson Piquet Jr. 8th Buemi and Da Costa are in 9th and 10th positions this is the onboard view Nelson Piquet just the fastest lap of the race there 7th, 9th that was a very quick fast lap wasn't it it didn't have fan boost or anything so that's really impressive from Nelson Piquet Jr. here's a look and now he's on the attack going past Sam Bird for 7th place remember he went a lap longer so he's got more energy to use in that second car which he's using to very good effect right now yeah there he is in the red yellow team China car that is a big that could be a big moment in Sam Bird's championship because he could have taken the lead of the championship if things had, you know if he'd have made that move won the race he takes the lead of the championship hips and butts you know but whoever's decision that was or it was a communication issue or a radio problem but it's cost Sam dearly so Nelson Piquet Jr. has just set the fastest first sector of anyone as well so he's really getting on it and he'll be right behind John Eric Byrne well now really as the car has come under braking for the left hander there is Sam Bird 8th place Sebastian Buemi in 9th place again Buemi hasn't been at the races today I don't know what it is I don't know if it's because we have the delays this morning or what but he has just not been on it at all and now we've got some back marker action to contend with so this could get a little bit difficult up at the front a little look from Piquet Jr. as he tries to pass John Eric Byrne but it's a battle between Liuzzi and Sarazan over 17th position but the race leaders are coming up to the back of now how much is it though that these cars are so equal the drivers are so equal and it's just they're very complex things and when somebody just nails that set up or not as the case may be you see them either up the front with a guy like Scott Speed running P4 in his first race or a guy you would expect to be absolutely nailing it like Aldous Suarez P13 how much of it is just them missing the set up and when they miss it in the middle of a race there's nothing you can do you can maybe adjust the tyre pressures for your second car or small adjustments that's it let's have a look and see if Piquet Jr. has a crack going down here looks to the inside line oh he's gone for it Banzai down the inside and Piquet Jr. goes through what a move into 6th place that came from about 3 days back didn't it great move from Piquet Jr. he is on a mission now and oh there's not a happy Michelangelo I've seen that look before yeah a number of times I closed that look a little bit of an update from other events Senna's suspension broke Virgin don't think that Sam Bird exceeded the power of the power limit in that first car but they're not 100% sure and Stefan Sarazan has had a gearbox problem in his second car so that's why he has had to come into the pits and retire from the race so thank you Nicky Shields for that news from the pit lane and this is them trying to squeeze past Tonio Liuzzi to crash he's lost out here big time and he might be under pressure from Scott Speed through the kick they come down towards the right hander and Speed needs to go through and follow through and he does beautiful move Liuzzi we needed to pay more attention there quite honestly the leaders of the race coming up should be getting involved car 23 is under investigation which is Nick Heidfeld so that's another kick in the teeth for the Venturi team not 100% sure what for probably using too much power and this is now D'Ambrosio trying to get past Tonio Liuzzi who's the last out exactly and so he'll be getting out the way but behind him will be Nelson Piquet Jr. trying to get in the fight as well and get up into 5th place so this is a really great drive from Nelson Piquet who don't forget qualified 2nd but had to take a 5th place grid penalty because of the ignored yellow flags in the previous race you see that D'Ambrosio gesticulating like a madman as he tries to get past Tonio Liuzzi but he needs to keep an eye out because Piquet Jr. will take advantage of that gesticulation if he does it too much there's no reason for a guy of Liuzzi's experience to be doing what he's doing none there's a move there yep so that is that is Liuzzi getting out of the way finally and he goes through and so does Nelson Piquet Jr. so that has knocked them back a little bit as well which is a shame because they were getting right up with that battle over 4th place this is a replay of oh this is going to be Alguersuari shunting with Antonio Felix da Costa well they got away with it and I think da Costa Sam that was Sam Bird you're right that was da Costa taking 9th place away from Sam Bird my apologies and so da Costa goes through I think that's just Verne going past Tonio Liuzzi yes it is with Buemi trying to follow through as well then it's Antonio Felix da Costa in 9th Sam Bird is in 10th place still top 4 cars 1.9 seconds yeah incredibly close 6 laps to go it's going to get feisty isn't it with 6 laps to go here in Miami Daniel Aff leading the way there he is Nico Prost right behind him here's the attack from Scott Speed into 3rd place job done down on the inside into turn 5 and another just definitive move from Scott Speed and he's into a podium position in his first race with 33% power still he's got 2% more than anybody else he's fighting so yeah Scott's doing a heck of a job here this is the onboard talk us through it textbook he's just sitting there he's waiting for the car in front to move over to the right just thinking about braking well there you go thank you very much decisive move lovely when it's that decisive it just looks easy it feels easy sometimes and other times it's bloody impossible but that was absolutely textbook and you can tell he's confident on the brakes and he's just he's just knocking them down one at a time if you're Nico Prost you're going to be a bit touch nervous right now I think that will be making Michael Andretti a little bit happier he's the man on the left hand side there as we look back to Jean-Eric Vergne under pressure from Sebastian Buemi and that must be Salvador Duran no De Costa's dropped back now I think no he's joined the party hasn't he, my apologies but look at Scott Speed he's right up behind Nico Prost for the battle in second position five laps to go and I just missed the percentages down there but I think Speed is still looking good the top three are closing in with five laps left here in Miami if we had an American win this race it would be absolutely mega and you just heard him completely get off there and regen so he's in control he's very calm he's saving energy and you can see how he's doing it really well driven tucked right up behind Nico Prost down towards Freedom Tower look how early he's getting off here we've got a good exit let's see if he's ready to have a go at Prost it seems like he's found his preferred overtaking spot energy reading six eight that's your Andretti that's Scott Speed yep so just giving the energy reading as he comes under the brakes down into turn one he closes in so much under brakes he's really good on the brakes he's good on the brakes but he's regening at the same time he's as they say over here in America and as we are in America I can say this he's in the cat bird seat he really is look how he's closing in there yeah will he have a go into five his preferred spot is he going to get a good enough exit to have a go into five nah not that time maybe he was a little bit earlier on the brakes than Nico Prost but we've seen him come from you know two or three days back before will he be close enough to do it again not this time but now missed the apex and he's got the battery he's got the battery in hand look at that he's only got 15% for four laps to go so this is this is going to be tight tight tight in the final four laps of the race if I'm that straight now I'm thinking oh no three laps of the race I should say so three laps to go and this is a three-way battle for the lead of the race and Lucas di Grassi has lost out to Jérôme D'Ambrosio did we did we see that I don't I don't remember seeing that but D'Ambrosio is up into fourth place now Di Grassi's dropped to fifth but it's all about this battle for the lead but Scott Speed he's got to take advantage of that he's got everything going for him he's got to take advantage of it Abt's now going to start defending I would say because he's low on power he's going to have to start defending from Prost which is going to allow Scott Speed to get into the battle yeah what a thrilling end to the race we're going to have here three laps to go that was Alain Prost a man who has won many many races over the course of his career this is a critical point Scott Speed has got to get the exit out of this next corner let's see how he manages it yeah good exit this could be a wee move coming up here so three laps to go here in Miami on board with Scott Speed not quite close enough to Nico Prost on the run down Prost is going on the attack no he's locked up that could compromise him coming out of this and into that right hander but no again Scott Speed not quite close enough to the back of Nico Prost two laps to go now and who is going to win this Miami E-Prix surely it'll be one of these three Daniel Abt leading the way in the Abt car Prost in second in the blue and yellow Edams machine and that man there Scott Speed third in the white and blue Andretti Autosport car Prost is looking to the inside and goes through past Daniel Abt into the lead of the race almost taps the wall on the outside Speed's got to go here Abt is going to be fighting back as they come down towards turn one surely this will open the door for Scott Speed but they're still going to be side by side in the lead of the race Scott Speed is through into second position can he get it stopped yes Prost leads Speed second right this is all going Scott's way here Absolutely just opened up lovely there let's see if he's got enough he's got to make a move soon here because last lap Prost is going to be looking all over his mirrors and we haven't seen a move there at Freedom Tower for the whole of the race but Nico Prost has bided his time and sent it through and Daniel Abt is having to run at a lower power now to keep his back straight he's coming up behind Abt here and Speed's still got 14% more than Nico Prost I reckon Speed has a chance on this final lap of the race as they come down towards the right hander so you can hear both team radios of Scott Speed and Nico Prost oh out of shape there Nico Prost did he hit the wall some debris flies up Nico Prost might have clipped the wall ok so he's just giving some more information this is it this is the moment I think they told him to shut up there Nico Prost getting very very frustrated Scott Speed is there is he close enough no not close not quite coming down into the left hander these next 3 corners is where it's all at he's got to set up for a move down the inside of the turn 5 1km of racing still to go here in Miami out through the right hander of turn number 3 it's all about this right hander of turn number 4 Prost's exits are so good though look he did it again there brilliant exit let's see how brave how brave Scott Speed is going to be only 2 corners to go here in Miami Speed surely is not going to be quite close enough Daniel Abt is having to defend for all he's worth to try and keep on the podium final corner surely Speed won't just send one up the inside here oh the yellow flags are out double yellow flags at the last turn and that means that Nico Prost is going to take the chequered flag and win the race here in Miami 2nd place across the line for Scott Speed Daniel Abt in 3rd there was no chequered flag so I don't know if they've seen the chequered flag because they're still going on it it's been classified as a finish on the timing screens Nico Prost is the race winner here in Miami the flag man was off having a beer he was watching the screen to see who was going to win and they were like oh they're coming round so Nico Prost wins the race victory for Edams their second win of the year Nico Prost's first win of the year there he is he waves the chequered flag Scott Speed finishing 2nd on his debut for Andretti that is a brilliant result for the American and wonderful to have that happen here in Miami D'Ambrosio couldn't quite get past Daniel Abt for the final podium spot Nelson Piquet Jr. 5th Da Costa 6th Duval 7th not quite sure how he managed that but that's a great drive from Loic Duval to go from 18th on the grid to 7th Bird 8th well we could write a book about Bird's race Degrassi 9th championship leader in 9th Salvador Duran completing the top 10 well let's have a look at the replay so this is going to be Scott Speed oh this is Prost going up the inside of Daniel Abt Abt tried to get the cutback almost pulled it off but that allowed if anything the door to be open for Scott Speed to come through I think Abt was in trouble I really do I think he was he was trying to get a little bit of regen and Scott Speed took full advantage of it just not enough to get Prost but great race from Nico Prost there well well deserved win Scott Speed too and finally Daniel Abt gets a podium and gets a result to his speed has merited all season well I think we've got a podium of finales haven't we finally Nico Prost has won a race having led for most of the race in Beijing Scott Speed has finally given Andretti a really strong finish in second position because apart from their second place in the first race of the season they haven't been back on the podium since and Daniel Abt has finally finished on the podium a really strong performance from all three of those guys Nelson Piquet Jr. set the fastest lap of the race and as a result picks up some points for that the cars now pull back into the pit lane at the end of what was not the all out crash fest and craziness of Buenos Aires but a good motor race did anybody even touch the wall I thought it was a very controlled but a very very good race I thought Prost was done on that when he hit the wall on that final lap but he got away with it this guy's done a great job yeah he's yeah Michael Andretti was very very impressed with him and Mike's a hard guy oh he wants water he's a little thirsty yeah Michael's a hard guy to impress so yeah no a really good performance from Scott Speed and I know we're sort of oh what's happening oh there's Jean-Luc Vergne so that's why the double wave yellow was out now Guemi just had a kind of an invisible day for some reason which is not like him he's been from the first test we watched at Donington he's been the guy to beat you know yeah a very happy Daniel App despite leading the race he is very happy with that third position and I know we've spoken a lot about Scott Speed but this is his first race weekend in the championship and he's finished second and a brilliant comeback drive but Nico Prost led for every single moment of the race in Beijing except the final corner and now he has finally won a race in Formula E I thought you had the same idea with the ah I had so much power in the bank man he's a happy man but frustrated as well because like he says he had so much power in the bank man but that's the man of the moment Nico Prost stunning performance from him to fight through get the lead of the race take the victory on the final lap and that's good to see great to see now what we're going to see now is they're going to head to Long Beach in a couple of weeks for the partial IndyCar course they think this place was bumpy wait till they get to Long Beach one of the all time classic street course races that will open their eyes and it will be wonderful to see but hopefully Scott Speed will continue in the Andretti car he's deserved it today absolutely but Nico Prost takes victory and we'll have to wait and see but by my mental calculations that will take him to the top of the championship because di Grassi only picked up two points for a ninth position Bird only picked up three or four points so we'll have to wait and see for the final championship calculations in a couple of moments time but Nico Prost is going to be there or there about there is the E-DAMS driver on the right hand side getting ready to talk to Nikki Shields and so let's head down to her now and hear from our race winner Nico Prost a beautiful race there were you feeling the pressure of Scott Speed on your tail? yeah I mean I thought I was really good because of the energy and I was following Daniel but not easy to overtake but I thought I might have an opportunity at the end but then I was like wow who's that guy behind coming back and he was coming back strong I was a bit lucky because I touched the wall one lap from the end but I turned my way but what a great race really nice race you must be on an absolute high right now yeah it's good it's really good feels really good I had a very good day I was really happy with my quali then I had a really good race so yeah everything is perfect my brother is here my wife is here everyone is here it's nice to be with all the family well you've just become a winner in America as well which is a first yeah I mean I grew up in America for 4 years so I obviously love this country so yeah it's really nice it's not home but it's almost home fantastic well done enjoy the celebrations with your family so Nico Prost the 33 year old Frenchman the son of 4 time world champion Alain Prost has been an absolutely superb performance so far today he was living over here when he was attending Columbia University and so he knows America very well he was also a very successful golfer whilst he was attending Columbia University there's a little was he? yeah how do you know this stuff? you know it's just research Darryl you should try it that's what I'm good at that's why you're here so now let's hear from Scott Speed a second place finish in his Formula E debut well Scott Speed you said that you don't get stressed about these things but it certainly paid off what a race yeah it was a big learning experience yeah we have a great car Andretti has given us such a good car really it makes my job a lot easier it was a lot of fun I learned so much out there unfortunately I had the same strategy and we both left all of our power for the last lap so but it was a great race what a really fun event you managed the battery extremely well I mean how did you know to do that? I don't know I did what they told me to do the guys at Andretti are really great they're very clever guys and they gave me a great plan and I just stuck to the plan and it worked out great I mean winning your debut or coming second in a debut race on your home soil that's impressive impressive stuff thank you very much we got some hardware so it was a good weekend thanks very much enjoy the celebration the great thing about some of these drivers is is that they seemed they did Formula 1 ended up looking sort of washed up but then we get to see them actually how good they are as racing drivers and we saw that today especially with Scott Speed here's a look at the classification of the race Nico Prost the race winner only four tenths of a second clear of Scott Speed who couldn't quite get past in the final few laps but a great performance from Prost third Daniel Abt fourth Jerome D'Ambrosio a pretty under the radar drive from D'Ambrosio but he finished in fourth place Nelson Piquet Jr. fifth Antonio Felix da Costa in sixth place good result for the Yamanaguri squad Loic Duval did very well to go from 18th on the grid to 7th Bird, Degrassi and Duran the top ten so now let's hear from our third place finisher Daniel Abt almost getting his first race win Daniel Abt you almost had a podium in the first race we had in Beijing but now finally the time has come how does it feel? you look exhausted but very happy yeah it's so many emotions you know it's such a long time that I've been on the podium I really had a hard time in racing the last two and a half years and we've been so close so many times and finally we made it you know I knew we always had it but you have to make it happen until the end obviously would have been nice to finish first but I had no chance I had to save my energy so I'm so happy to be third I think it was a fantastic race and to get the first podium in Miami there couldn't be a better place but did you know that they were on your tail and coming with more power? yeah of course I mean Prost was in front of me in the first stint and I knew he had one he pitted one lap later so he had more energy on the second run so I knew I had to push in the first few laps I was always pushing and actually was not on target so in the end I had to save quite a lot yeah and I had to really defend but I'm still happy just enough power left to keep you in the podium no one came so far so I hope it's going to stay like this no it should be fine you look very happy and well deserved yes he crossed the line third in the opening race of the season in Beijing but had used too much energy and as a result was knocked down to tenth position but a great result for the Apt team and Daniel Apt is part of the family that started their tuning company in 1967 five drivers titles in the DTM great to have them here in Formula E as well and running so successfully with Lucas di Grassi towards the top of the standings and Daniel Apt now starting to get up to speed because like I say third on the road in Beijing had used too much energy so he was knocked back to tenth place he started the race third in Malaysia but had car problems so he didn't get to finish as high as he would have liked there either but finally it's all come together Daniel Apt with that third place finish you know we saw in the early races everybody having little niggling issues it didn't look today like there actually was any of those you know everybody seemed to have you know Bruno Senna had a suspension thing was that contact with the wall I don't know but it didn't seem those sort of small issues we had in the first couple of races were any issue today So that's where me and Dario are heading to a boat out in the I wish out in the sea yeah no no probably not but a great advert for Formula E racing here in Miami around the American Airlines arena here's a look at the race classification Nico Prost taking the win half a second clear of Scott Speed Daniel Apt in third D'Ambrosio fourth Piquet Junior fifth Da Costa Duval third Degrassi and Salvador Duran completing the top ten that's Salvador Duran's first point of the season which is brilliant to see and then Sebastian Buemi only 13th after all of that Liuzzi will be disappointed to be in 16th place Jean-Eric Vergne finishing down in 18th place in the end because he retired from the race at the end of towards the end of the race unfortunately