{"id":20450,"date":"2018-10-16T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/formula-e-sims-sets-the-pace-in-day-1\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T17:24:14","slug":"formula-e-sims-sets-the-pace-in-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/formula-e-sims-sets-the-pace-in-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula E: Sims sets the pace in Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to day one of ABB FIA Formula E Championship pre-season testing. Day one of a new season with new cars, new rules, new cities and a whole lot more action coming up. Feels good to be back, right?<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s only been a few months since we crowned Jean-Eric Vergne as our Season 4 champion, we&#8217;re ready to do it all again as we embark on a Season 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/clonecircuit.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Felipe-Massa.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19737 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/clonecircuit.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Felipe-Massa-1170x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Measuring in at 4.005 km, testing returns to the Circuit Ricardo Tormo for the second consecutive year. Nestled in the foothills, 24 km outside of the Spanish city, it&#8217;s the first time all 22 cars have hit the track ahead of the first race in Saudi Arabia on December 15, 2018. Here&#8217;s all the action from day one of pre-season testing at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite his first Formula E outing, it was BMW i Andretti Motorsport&#8217;s Rookie driver Alexander Sims who set the pace in pre-season testing with a 1:17.553 lap time &#8211; setting the fastest time in both sessions. Despite his lack of Formula E experience, Sims was a full second quicker than last years fastest lap time, set by NIO Formula E Team&#8217;s Oliver Turvey.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/clonecircuit.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-social\/facebook\/107132469324932\/2018\/10\/44203340_1951566508214843_4376449293825867776_o.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19733 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/clonecircuit.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-social\/facebook\/107132469324932\/2018\/10\/44203340_1951566508214843_4376449293825867776_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>Coming in second fastest of the day was DS Techeetah&#8217;s Andre Lotterer with a time of 1:17.654 behind the wheel of the DS E-Tense FE19, followed by BMW&#8217;s Antonio Felix da Costa with a best lap time of 1:17.727, set in the\u00a0afternoon session.<\/p>\n<p>After a trouble-free morning, HWA RACELAB&#8217;s Rookie driver Gary Paffett had a brief excursion with the barrier at the chicane on the start\/finish line. With the session temporarily halted while Paffett&#8217;s car was recovered, the British driver returned to the pits with only scuffs and scratches to the bodywork.<\/p>\n<p>Rookie Max Gunther, driving for Geox Dragon, had technical issues in the morning, which brought his session to an early end while Venturi&#8217;s Felipe Massa rounded off the top ten of the day, with a 1:18.17.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to day one of ABB FIA Formula E Championship pre-season testing. Day one of a new season with new cars, new rules, new cities and a whole lot more action coming up. Feels good to be back, right? While it&#8217;s only been a few months since we crowned Jean-Eric Vergne as our Season 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[893,894],"tags":[692],"class_list":["post-20450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias-en","category-sin-categoria-en","tag-formula-e"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.circuitricardotormo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}