Oliver Rowland tops Formula E Santiago ePrix fastest as red flags disrupt the session

Santiago ePrix

Rowland tops a stop-start pracitce two in Santiago

Lots of questions and very few answers ahead of Formula E qualifying

Sam Hall

Saturday 18 January 2020 14:57 Updated: 15:03

Oliver Rowland tops a heavily disrupted practice two for the Santiago ePrix after Ma Qinghua ends the session in the Chilean walls.

In contrast to practice one, when practice two got underway, most drivers instantly took to the track in Attack Mode.

With temperatures only set to increase throughout the day, the earlier stages of the session would likely yield the more representative data for teams.

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Neel Jani (TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team) slid wide and made contact with the wall early on but that was just the start of a crazy session.

Half way through the session, the GEOX Dragon team left the cooling fans on the front of Brendon Hartley's car when he left the pits which brought out a brief red flag period, Antonio Felix da Costa (DS Techeetah) turned in on Rowland (Nissan e.dams) into turn one which resulted in minor contact but then Ma Qinghua (NIO 333 FE Team) crashed heavily into the wall, causing a far longer stoppage.

The session was not restarted and Rowland, who was the only front runner to complete a lap in full qualifying mode, heads into qualifying as the fastest man.

1 Oliver Rowland Nissan e.dams 1:04.799 2 Felipe Massa ROKiT Venturi Racing +0.131 3 Mitch Evans Panasonic Jaguar Racing +0.247 4 Maximilian Gunther BMW i Andretti Motorsport +0.321 5 Andre Lotterer TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team +0.458 6 Antonio Felix da Costa DS Techeetah +0.481 7 Edoardo Mortara ROKiT Venturi Racing +0.528 8 Oliver Turvey NIO 333 FE Team +0.599 9 Daniel Abt Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team +0.670 10 Brendon Hartley GEOX Dragon +0.741 11 Nyck de Vries Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team +0.787 12 Pascal Wehrlein Mahindra Racing +0.799 13 James Calado Panasonic Jaguar Racing +0.835 14 Stoffel Vandoorne Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team +1.100 15 Jean-Eric Vergne DS Techeetah +1.459 16 Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team +1.484 17 Alexander Sims BMW i Andretti Motorsport +1.550 18 Jerome d’Ambrosio Mahindra Racing +1.569 19 Nico Muller GEOX Dragon +1.861 20 Robin Frijns Envision Virgin Racing +2.058 21 Sebastian Buemi Nissan e.dams +2.105 22 Sam Bird Envision Virgin Racing +2.208 23 Neel Jani TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team +2.257 24 Ma Qinghua NIO 333 FE Team +3.565