Jaguar’s Mitch Evans climbed from ninth on the grid to win the first Rome EPrix of the weekend in the fourth round of the 2022 Formula E championship.
Evans used his Attack Mode carefully, biding his time until later in the race and taking advantage to pass Robin Frijns and claim the lead in the closing laps. Stoffel Vandoorne finished third for Mercedes, with Jean Eric Vergne fourth for Techeetah.
At the start, pole-winner Vandoorne held off Frijns on the run to the first corner, with Nyck de Vries settling into third position. As the field headed up the hill on their way through turn seven, Oliver Rowland was spun around after contact with Edoado Mortara, leading to Rowland’s Mahindra sitting sideways across the track.
Lucas di Grassi, Sebastien Buemi, Maximilian Gunther and Oliver Turvey were all blocked, until the rest of the field were able to pass the obstruction. With a heavily damaged Nissan from the melee, Gunther then crashed into the barriers further around the lap,…