The 2019 Diriyah ePrix (officially the 2019 ABB FIA Formula E Saudia Diriyah ePrix) was a pair Formula E electric car race held at the Riyadh Street Circuit in the town of Diriyah, north-west of Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia on 22 and 23 November 2019. It formed the first and second rounds of the 2019–20 Formula E season and was the second edition of the Diriyah ePrix. The first race was won by Sam Bird with Andre Lotterer and Stoffel Vandoorne completing the podium.^[1] Alexander Sims won the second race.

Classification

Race one

Qualifying

Group draw^[2]
Group 1	JEV (1)	BUE (2)	DIG (3)	FRI (4)	EVA (5)	DAC (6)
Group 2	ABT (7)	LOT (8)	BIR (9)	ROW (10)	DAM (11)	WEH (12)
Group 3	SIM (13)	MOR (14)	MAS (15)	VAN (16)	GUE (17)	TUR (20)
Group 4	HAR (–)	MUL (–)	DEV (–)	JAN (–)	CAL (–)	QMA (–)

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	GS	SP	Grid
1	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti-BMW	1:15.255	1:14.563	1
2	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	1:15.151	1:14.839	2
3	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	1:15.027	1:14.929	3
4	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi-Mercedes	1:15.254	1:15.131	4
5	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	1:14.946	1:15.350	5
6	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	1:15.273	1:15.539	6
7	36	André Lotterer	Porsche	1:15.518	—	7
8	22	Oliver Rowland	e.dams-Nissan	1:15.653	—	8
9	28	Maximilian Günther	Andretti-BMW	1:15.680	—	9
10	3	Oliver Turvey	NIO	1:16.018	—	10
11	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	1:16.129	—	11
12	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	1:16.200	—	12
13	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	1:16.200	—	13
14	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.dams-Nissan	1:16.243	—	14
15	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	1:16.264	—	15
16	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	1:16.532	—	16
17	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi-Mercedes	1:16.583	—	17
18	6	Brendon Hartley	Dragon-Penske	1:17.074	—	18
19	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	1:17.213	—	19
20	18	Neel Jani	Porsche	1:17.745	—	20
21	13	António Félix da Costa	Techeetah-DS	1:18.613	—	21
22	33	Ma Qinghua	NIO	1:21.701	—	22
DSQ	7	Nico Müller	Dragon-Penske	1:23.017	—	23¹
DSQ	51	James Calado	Jaguar	1:23.792	—	24¹
Source:^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Notes:

^1 – Nico Müller and James Calado were disqualified from the session after disrespecting Parc fermé regulations in order to allow repairs to their damaged cars. The Stewards allowed Müller and Calado to start from the back of the grid.^[7]^[8]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	34	46:17.371	5	25+1³
2	36	André Lotterer	Porsche	34	+1.319	7	18
3	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	34	+1.672	2	15
4	22	Oliver Rowland	e.dams-Nissan	34	+1.944	8	12
5	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	34	+3.983	12	10
6	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	34	+4.560	3	8
7	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi-Mercedes	34	+5.122	4	6
8	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti-BMW	34	+5.715	1	4+3⁴
9	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	34	+6.628	6	2
10	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	34	+7.048	16	1+1⁵
11	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	34	+7.460	13
12	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi-Mercedes	34	+8.166	17
13	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	34	+8.404	19
14	13	António Félix da Costa	Techeetah-DS	34	+8.853	21
15	3	Oliver Turvey	NIO	34	+10.172	10
16	51	James Calado	Jaguar	34	+11.572	24
17	18	Neel Jani	Porsche	34	+15.429	20
18	28	Maximilian Günther	Andretti-BMW	34	+25.662	8
19	6	Brendon Hartley	Dragon-Penske	34	+52.219¹	18
20	33	Ma Qinghua	NIO	33	+1 lap²	22
Ret	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	29	Accident	15
Ret	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	21	Steering	11
Ret	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.dams-Nissan	3	Technical	14
DNS	7	Nico Müller	Dragon-Penske	0	Did not start	23
Source:^[9]

Notes:

^1 – Brendon Hartley received a ten-second time penalty for being unable to fulfill the complete time of the second attack mode.^[10]
^2 – Ma Qinghua received a drive-through penalty converted into a 24-second time penalty for not respecting the homologated throttle pedal map.^[11]
^3 – Fastest in group stage.
^4 – Pole position.
^5 – Fastest lap.

Race two

Qualifying

Group draw^[12]
Group 1	BIR (1)	LOT (2)	VAN (3)	ROW (4)	FRI (5)	DEV (6)
Group 2	SIM (7)	MOR (8)	DAM (9)	EVA (10)	WEH (11)	MAS (12)
Group 3	DIG (13)	DAC (14)	TUR (15)	CAL (16)	JAN (17)	GUE (18)
Group 4	HAR (19)	QMA (20)	ABT (21)	JEV (22)	BUE (23)	MUL (24)

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	GS	SP	Grid
1	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti-BMW	1:11.858	1:11.476	1
2	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.dams-Nissan	1:11.774	1:11.696	2
3	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	1:11.939	1:11.784	3
4	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	1:11.835	1:12.093	4
5	13	António Félix da Costa	Techeetah-DS	1:11.418	1:14.134	5
6	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	1:11.972	no time¹	6
7	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	1:12.007	—	7
8	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi-Mercedes	1:12.008	—	8
9	28	Maximilian Günther	Andretti-BMW	1:12.051	—	9
10	36	André Lotterer	Porsche	1:12.153	—	10
11	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	1:12.327	—	24²
12	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	1:12.422	—	11
13	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	1:12.454	—	12
14	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	1:12.635	—	13
15	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	1:12.642	—	14
16	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi-Mercedes	1:12.656	—	15
17	22	Oliver Rowland	e.dams-Nissan	1:12.660	—	16
18	3	Oliver Turvey	NIO	1:12.671	—	17
19	18	Neel Jani	Porsche	1:12.732	—	18
20	6	Brendon Hartley	Dragon-Penske	1:13.182	—	19
21	33	Ma Qinghua	NIO	1:13.205	—	20
22	51	James Calado	Jaguar	1:13.430	—	21
23	7	Nico Müller	Dragon-Penske	1:13.703	—	22
24	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	1:14.082	—	23
Source:^[13]^[14]

Notes:

^1 – Mitch Evans' car was found underweight after Super Pole, and his lap time was deleted.^[15]
^2 – Jean-Éric Vergne received a twenty-place grid penalty for battery change, forcing him to start from the back of the grid.^[16] For being unable to take the full grid drop (by only losing thirteen places on the grid), he also received an additional drive-through penalty at the race.^[17]

Race

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti-BMW	30	46:48.327	1	25+3⁷
2	11	Lucas di Grassi	Audi	30	+2.817	3	18
3	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	Mercedes	30	+3.581	11	15
4	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi-Mercedes	30	+4.294	8	12
5	22	Oliver Rowland	e.dams-Nissan	30	+5.475	16	10
6	66	Daniel Abt	Audi	30	+16.942	14	8
7	51	James Calado	Jaguar	30	+17.221	21	6
8	25	Jean-Éric Vergne	Techeetah-DS	30	+19.394	24	4
9	6	Brendon Hartley	Dragon-Penske	30	+20.702	19	2
10	13	António Félix da Costa	Techeetah-DS	30	+22.634	5	1+1+1⁸
11	28	Maximilian Günther	Andretti-BMW	30	+25.383¹	9
12	23	Sébastien Buemi	e.dams-Nissan	30	+26.291²	2
13	18	Neel Jani	Porsche	30	+27.493	18
14	36	André Lotterer	Porsche	30	+29.046¹	10
15	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra	30	+35.290	13
16	17	Nyck de Vries	Mercedes	30	+36.318³	23
17	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi-Mercedes	30	+45.758⁴	15
18	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar	30	+1:01.105¹	6
19	33	Ma Qinghua	NIO	30	+1:28.165⁵	20
Ret	7	Nico Müller	Dragon-Penske	28	Puncture	22
Ret	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin-Audi	18	Accident	12
Ret	2	Sam Bird	Virgin-Audi	13	Collision damage	7
DNS	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra	0	Did not start	4
DSQ⁶	3	Oliver Turvey	NIO	30	Energy usage	17
Source:^[18]

Notes:

^1 – Maximilian Günther, André Lotterer and Mitch Evans all received a drive-through penalty converted into 24-second time penalties after overtaking cars under the yellow flag.^[19]^[20]^[21]
^2 – Sébastien Buemi received a ten-second time penalty for unsafe rejoin to the track.^[22]
^3 – Nyck de Vries received a five-second time penalty for a technical infringement.^[23] He then received a drive-through penalty converted into a 24-second time penalty after overtaking Oliver Turvey under the yellow flag.^[24]
^4 – Felipe Massa received a drive-through penalty converted into a 24-second time penalty for speeding in the pit lane.^[25]
^5 – Ma Qinghua received a drive-through penalty converted into a 24-second time penalty for causing a collision with Nico Müller.^[26] He then received a second drive-through penalty converted into a 24-second time penalty after overtaking four cars after the safety car procedure.^[27] Ma also received a five-second penalty before the race due to his battery being below 97% on the dummy grid.^[28]
^6 – Oliver Turvey originally finished eighth and would have gotten promoted to sixth after all penalties having been applied, but was later disqualified as he used 40.06 kWh of total energy, exceeding the 40 kWh maximum.^[29]
^7 – Pole position.
^8 – Fastest in group stage; fastest lap.

References

^ "Formula E: Sam Bird wins Saudi E-Prix". BBC Sport. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 24 - Qualifying Groups" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 42 - Classification Qualifying" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 43 - Classification Qualifying Superpole" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 52 - Final Classification Qualifying" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 53 - Starting Grid RACE" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 48 - Decision 14" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 50 - Decision 15" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 64 - Final Classification RACE" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 60 - Decision 19" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 62 - Decision 21" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
^ "Doc 69 - Qualifying Groups - Round 2" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ "Doc 83 - Classification Qualifying - Superpole" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ "Doc 84 - Final Starting Grid Race" (PDF). FIA Formula E. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
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^ @DSTECHEETAH (23 November 2019). "JEV has served his 10 second drive through and is back out on track. Time to pass some cars. DAC is running P4" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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