Rowland leads final day of Formula E testing

Reigning world champion Oliver Rowland ended Formula E pre-season testing at the Spanish circuit of Valencia on top, setting the fastest time on the final day of testing for the 20 race drivers.

The Nissan driver's best lap of 1m21.498s on Thursday was only 0.002s quicker than DS Penske's Taylor Barnard, who he usurped late on, with Edoardo Mortara once again at the sharp end for Mahindra in third, a further 0.031s back.

Norman Nato, who was fastest in the morning, made it two Nissans in the top four for the day, just 0.054s off his teammate, while Nyck de Vries rounded out the top five in the second Mahindra. Jake Dennis was the fastest Porsche-powered driver in sixth for Andretti, ahead of Pascal Wehrlein for the factory team and fellow customer runner Dan Ticktum for Cupra Kiro.

Sebastien Buemi was the quickest Jaguar runner for Envision Racing, ahead of Citroen's Nick Cassidy and Kiro's Pepe Marti, who was the fastest of the rookies, with Jaguar TCS Racing's Mitch Evans in 12th.

Nico Mueller was 13th quickest in the second factory Porsche, ahead of Maximilian Guenther in the second DS Penske, Jaguar's new signing Antonio Felix da Costa and Jean-Eric Vergne in the other Citroen.

Felipe Drugovich was 17th, with second year Lola Yamaha Abt driver Zane Maloney 18th, beating teammate Lucas di Grassi, with Joel Eriksson completing the field for Envision.

All drivers set their best times using the full 350kW four-wheel-driver mode, and Mueller completed the highest number of laps during the day with 55. Evans and Vergne completed the fewest circuits with 31 apiece. Evans, however, completed the most laps of the weeks with 294, while Andretti was the team that logged the most tours of Circuit Ricardo Tormo with 586, Dennis and Durgovich both doing 293.

Across the four days of proper pre-season testing, Mortara set the fastest overall time with his 1m22.003s on Tuesday being 0.005s quicker than Rowland's best from Thursday.

“I'm happy with how the test has gone, it's given us the opportunity to run through different testing programs, and plenty of data to take away and analyze,” said Mortara. “The car feels competitive, we have definitely made some improvements, but it's difficult to know what everybody else has done. But we are happy and encouraged with the work that we've done and now we look forward to starting the season in Sao Paulo.”

Nissan and Mahindra, who are both competing with just one team this season – their respective factory efforts – were the only powertrain manufacturers to get two cars into the overall top five for the week, Barnard's Stellantis-powered DS Penske being the other thanks to his best lap from the final day.

Testing concludes on Friday with the second official Formula E women’s test, taking place across two sessions during the day with four teams fielding two female drivers during the day and the rest one.

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