page_title: 2017 Berlin ePrix
section_title: Race
hierarchical_section_title: 2017 Berlin ePrix / Race one / Race
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Lucas di Grassi und José María López starten aus der ersten Startreihe English: Lucas di Grassi and José María López starting from the first row of the grid
context_page_description: The 2017 Berlin ePrix were a pair of Formula E electric car races held on 10 and 11 June 2017 at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit in Berlin before a two-day crowd of 24,000 people. They were the seventh and eighth rounds of the 2016–17 Formula E season and the third Berlin ePrix. The 44-lap race contested on 10 June was won by Mahindra driver Felix Rosenqvist from a second place start. Lucas di Grassi finished second for Audi Sport ABT and Rosenqvist's teammate Nick Heidfeld was third. The longer 46-lap race on 11 June was won by e.Dams-Renault driver Sébastien Buemi from second position start. Rosenqvist took second and di Grassi was third.
  Di Grassi won the pole position for the first race by recording the fastest lap in qualifying and maintained the lead by gradually building a gap over Rosenqvist in the opening five laps but the latter steadily reduced it over the following laps to three-tenths of a second before the mandatory pit stops. Rosenqvist passed di Grassi for the lead on the 22nd lap and retained the position after switching into his second car.
context_section_description: The first race began at 16:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). The weather at the start were dry and sunny with an air temperature between 23.25 to 23.8 °C (73.85 to 74.84 °F) and a track temperature ranging from 31 to 33.9 °C (87.8 to 93.0 °F). When the race started, di Grassi maintained the lead heading into the first corner. Mahindra teammates Rosenqvist and Heidfeld made fast starts and overtook the slow starting López for second and third respectively. Abt passed Vergne for sixth and Sarrazin overtook Piquet for 12th. Evans gained places through the first corner, but after the field bunched up in turns two and three, he was unsighted by Sarrazin who squeezed the Jaguar into the concrete barrier, braking his suspension and damaging both rims. Buemi did not gain any positions and appeared to make contact with Piquet's car with a section of the NextEV's bodywork lodged in his car's open slot. At the end of the first lap, di Grassi led from Rosenqvist, Heidfeld, López, Bird, Abt, Vergne, Engel, Prost and Turvey.
  Evans limped his damaged Jaguar back to the pit lane where he switched to his second car and his team refocused their efforts to setting the race's fastest lap. By the fifth lap, di Grassi held a 1.2 second lead over Rosenqvist with Heidfeld in third, ahead of the Virgin duo of López and Bird. Buemi gained one position by passing Sarrazin for 12th place at turn nine. Soon after, Buemi, di Grassi and Abt were announced as the winners of the first FanBoost vote. Dillmann incurred a drive-through penalty for overusing electrical energy. Rosenqvist required additional battery life to go a lap longer than di Grassi before his pit stop while Andretti teammates Félix da Costa and Frijns elected to make their stops later to try and gain positions and have more electrical energy to use for an attack for the final laps. Attention focused on Buemi who passed Turvey for tenth and Engel on the outside of turn nine for ninth place. At the front, Rosenqvist started to draw closer to di Grassi with his additional electrical energy while Heidfeld pulled away from López and Bird. 
  Evans recorded the race's fastest lap of 1 minute, 10.224 seconds on lap 16, earning him one point. Entering the pit stop phase, Rosenqvist reduced di Grassi's lead to three-tenths of a second after the latter locked his tyres. Di Grassi lifted and coasted early, allowing Rosenqvist to pass him on the inside for the lead into the first corner on lap 22. The mandatory pit stops for drivers to change into a second car began at the conclusion of the lap when the top three drivers entered the pit lane. Rosenqvist rejoined the track in the lead with di Grassi second and Heidfeld third. Abt fell behind Prost in seventh while Bird lost three positions to emerge in eighth. Félix da Costa and Frijns's strategy did not work and fell to 18th and 19th. While di Grassi elected to hold back on using his FanBoost to attack Rosenqvist, Buemi overtook Abt for eight and began closing up to Bird. Despite gaining positions after the pit stops, Vergne was under investigation for being released into Dillmann's path. Meanwhile, Heidfeld started to draw closer to di Grassi with 15 laps left. Buemi braked later than Bird to pass him for seventh place on the inside of turn nine.
  Entering the final laps, Buemi had closed up to Bird and teammate Prost; the latter did not defend as Buemi took over sixth place. Vergne was imposed a five-second time penalty for his pit stop release and Buemi responded by allowing Vergne to pull away slightly. Rosenqvist opened up a two-second lead over di Grassi, who had battery temperature issues. Rosenqvist's teammate Heidfeld had closed up to di Grassi who responded by using his FanBoost to defend second place. Rosenqvist maintained the lead and crossed the start/finish line after 44 laps to secure his and Mahindra's first victory in Formula E. Di Grassi finished second, 2.2 seconds behind, with Heidfeld securing his third consecutive third-place finish. López finished fourth, with Buemi fifth on the road. Prost, Abt and Bird were in the 
caption: The start of the first race
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