Having scythed through the front part of the field in the first half of the race at the Circuito Cittadino dell’EUR having started ninth, Evans forged a 7.5s lead over the battling pair of Robin Frijns and Stoffel Vandoorne, before electing to back off.
At Evans’ previous pace, the race was on the cusp of spilling over into a 28th lap had he not backed off – with the extra-lap strategy part of Porsche’s ploy to win the previous Mexico City E-Prix having conserved enough energy.
But with enough of a lead in hand to sacrifice a couple of seconds to the cars behind, Evans recalled that Jaguar was “burned” by Porsche’s strategy in the previous race, and wanted to ensure that he would make it to the finish without any energy consumption issues.
“When you’ve got good speed, good pace and good energy, you can sort of be in control of it. That’s what I had today,” Evans reflected to Motorsport.com.
“So yeah, just when I got to the lead, I just put my head down and obviously planned…
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