Edoardo Mortara won the first Berlin EPrix of the weekend but is under investigation by stewards for an overspeed infringement in the pit lane.
The Venturi driver took his second provisional race win of the season by holding off Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne in a race that was uninterrupted by Safety Car periods.
When the lights went out, Edoardo Mortara led from pole, ahead of Alexander Sims, Antonio Felix da Costa and Andrei Lotterer, who passed Jean-Eric Vergne to take fourth place. Mortara looks comfortable out front in the early laps, while Sims was passed by Da Costa, then Lotterer to drop the Mahindra down to fourth in the early running.
Just under ten minutes into the race, the stewards announced that the leader, Mortara, was under investigation for potentially breaking the speed limit on the way to the grid prior to the race. They confirmed that Mortara would be investigated but only after the chequered flag.
Pascal Wehrlein was the first of the frontrunners to take his first Attack Mode from sixth. Vergne passed Lotterer to take third place, before Lotterer opted to take Attack Mode, dropping him to sixth behind both Wehrlein and Sims.
Wehrlein used his Attack Mode to pass Venrge for third place, before the two Techeetahs of Da Costa and Vergne both took Attack Mode, promoting Wehrlein to second – Mortara out front the only driver of the leading pack still to take his first Attack Mode.
Lotterer had more pace than his second placed team mate and Porsche asked Wehrlein to allow Lotterer past, which he did into the long first corner. That made Wehrlein vulnerable to the two Techeetahs still on Attack Mode behind, with both Da Costa and Vergne passing the Porsche to take third and fourth.
At the half-distance mark, Mortara finally took his first Attack Mode, surrendering the lead to Lotterer in the process. However, it did not take long for Mortara to reclaim the lead with the extra power, driver clean around the Porsche along the pit straight. Behind…