Reigning Formula E world champion Nyck de Vries pulled away from the Venturi of Edoardo Mortara to win the second Berlin EPrix.
The Mercedes driver passed Mortara into the first corner at the start and came out of the Attack Mode phase of the race with the lead, comfortably keeping ahead of the Venturi behind to take his second win of the season.
Stoffel Vandoorne took his second podium in two days in third after a late pass on Lucas di Grassi in the second Venturi.
At the start, polesitter Edoardo Mortara hugged the inside wall approaching turn one, but left just enough space for Nyck De Vries to poke his Mercedes alongside the Venturi from third place and muscle Mortara out of the lead at the first corner. De Vries therefore took the early lead, with Mortara in second ahead of Robin Frijns, Andre Lotterer and the second Venturi of Lucas di Grassi in fifth place.
The order at the front remained static over the early phase of the race, with De Vries holding the lead but the pack behind not allowing him to escape their reach. De Vries was warned by his team he was “low on change” and encouraged to carry out more energy saving. However, he responded by taking his one of only Attack Mode first of all the frontrunners, dropping down to third place behind Mortara and Frijns.
The next lap, Frijns attempted to take Attack Mode from second place, but was not granted the additional power boost despite appearing to successfully navigating through the activation zone, costing his two places for no benefit. De Vries took advantage of the free position to catch to the back of Mortara and use his extra speed to overtake the Venturi and retake the lead.
Antonio Felix da Costa used his Attack Mode to pass Di Grassi for third, then quickly drove around Mortara to move into second place. Mortara took his Attack Mode last of all the leading drivers, falling to fifth place. However, as the four cars ahead of him all had Attack Mode expire, the Venturi in fifth still had over five…