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British driver Jake Dennis closes in on Formula E world title with victory in Rome

Dennis produced a lights-to-flag win to regain the championship lead ahead of the season finale in London

The Independent UK

Bird concedes Rome Formula E win risk was "not worth it"

The Briton was battling for the lead against eventual winner Jake Dennis at the midpoint of Sunday’s race and made several attempts to overtake the Andretti Autosport driver.

Autosport

Rome E-Prix: Dennis wins as Evans crashes into Cassidy

The Andretti Autosport driver took a lights-to-flag victory having never been headed from pole during the 24-lap contest, but only after resisting intense early pressure from Nissan’s Norman Nato and Jaguar’s Sam Bird who completed the podium.

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Rome E-Prix: Dennis wins as Evans/Cassidy collide

Autosport

DS Penske through thick and thin

The air was already 30C when the electric single-seaters took to the track at precisely 8.10am on Saturday.

Autosport

Rome E-Prix: Dennis takes pole against title rival Cassidy

The Andretti Autosport driver had built up a margin of three-tenths over the opening two sectors in the final duel and posted a 1m37.986s.

Autosport

Rome E-Prix: Evans continues Formula E dominance in FP3

The Jaguar driver claimed pole, victory and fastest lap in Saturday’s opening race in Rome to propel himself firmly back into title contention and posted the fastest time in FP3 on Sunday morning.

Autosport

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Mitch Evans closes in on Formula E title leaders with victory in Rome

Evans broke Formula E records by securing his fourth victory ever and third in a row in the Italian capital

The Independent UK

Rome E-Prix: Evans wins from Cassidy after early-race pile-up

The Jaguar driver beat fellow Kiwi and championship protagonist Nick Cassidy by 1.6s to the win, as the runner-up spot moved the Envision Racing driver into the points lead.

Motorsport

Rome Formula E race red-flagged after Bird crash triggers pile-up

The first of two FE races in Italy this weekend was halted on the ninth lap of racing after numerous cars were involved in a high-speed accident.

Motorsport

Rome E-Prix: Evans beats Jaguar team-mate Bird to pole

Bird – who at one stage in qualifying had been stripped of a place in the duels due to a stewards’ decision, before being reinstated – was fractionally quicker than Evans through the opening sector.

Motorsport

Rome E-Prix: Evans sets the pace in FP2 ahead of Dennis

The Jaguar driver was already top of the times with a lap that would have been good enough to end the session fastest heading into the final five minutes.

Motorsport

Rome E-Prix: Evans sets the pace in FP2 ahead of points leader Dennis

The Jaguar driver was already top of the times with a lap that would have been good enough to end the session fastest heading into the final five minutes.

Autosport

Portland E-Prix: Cassidy wins tense energy-saving battle

Envision Racing driver Cassidy judged the energy-saving requirements of the high-speed Oregon venue to perfection as he beat Andretti man Jake Dennis at the end of the 32-lap contest by 0.294 seconds.

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Portland E-Prix: Nissan's Nato sets the pace in second practice

Nato left it until the final minute of the 30-minute session to set the best lap of 1m09.101s, eclipsing Maserati MSG driver Guenther by 0.139s.

Autosport

Portland Formula E and the hopes of DS Penske

As on three occasions since the start of the season, the drivers of the electric single-seaters in the Formula E world championship will be racing on a new track. This is also the first time that the series has visited the north-west of the United States, and the city of…

Motorsport

Dennis feels his Formula E title challenge is "back alive"

Dennis enjoyed a strong showing in the Indonesian double-header, qualifying on the front row for the first time since the season opener in Mexico City before going on to finish second in each of the two races.

Autosport

Jakarta E-Prix: Gunther beats Dennis to claim second straight FE pole

Having been unbeaten over a single lap all weekend, Gunther again emerged as the fastest driver of all in Sunday’s qualifying as he set a stellar lap of 1m07.753s to defeat Dennis by over half a second in the finals.

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Cassidy in damage limitation mode as Porsche rivals shine in Jakarta FE

Cassidy struggled to seventh in the first of two FE races in Indonesia, failing to make much in-roads from 10th on the grid in his Jaguar-powered Envision car despite saving his final Attack Mode activation in the hope of a late charge.

Autosport

Cassidy in damage limitation mode as Porsche FE rivals shine in Jakarta

Autosport

Second all-Jaguar FE collision "hurts" as Bird again takes out Evans

Evans and Bird were running in eighth and ninth positions with just three laps to go in Indonesia when Bird misjudged his braking into Turn 1, hitting the back of the Kiwi’s car.

Autosport

Jakarta E-Prix: Wehrlein wins to get title challenge back on track

Wehrlein moved into the lead of the race early on after passing both Jake Dennis and polesitter Maximilian Gunther, and then held off the duo in the closing laps to clinch his third victory of the season.

Motorsport

Jakarta E-Prix: Wehrlein ends win drought to close in on points lead

Wehrlein moved into the lead of the race early on after passing both Jake Dennis and polesitter Maximilian Gunther and then held off the duo in the closing laps to clinch his third victory of the season.

Autosport

Jakarta E-Prix: Maserati's Gunther beats Dennis to maiden pole

Having been quickest in the two practice sessions across Friday evening and Saturday morning, Gunther was also untouchable in qualifying as he defeated Andretti’s Jake Dennis with a time of 1m08.141s.

Motorsport

Jakarta E-Prix: Gunther leads Maserati 1-2 in first FE practice

Gunther lapped the 2.4km circuit in the Indonesia capital in 1m08.946s towards the end of the 30-minute session, edging out his team-mate Edoardo Mortara by 0.191s to claim the top spot.

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