Nyck de Vries wins Monaco E‑Prix Race 1

Nyck de Vries gave Mahindra Racing its first Formula E win of the GEN3 era on Saturday, taking Race 1 of the Monaco E-Prix after an early Pit Boost stop and a clean run through the final phase. The Dutch driver finished the 29-lap race in 51 minutes 26.313 seconds, 2.677 seconds ahead of Jaguar’s Mitch Evans, according to the FIA’s final classification. CUPRA KIRO rookie Pepe Martí was promoted to third after a post-race penalty for teammate Dan Ticktum. The result was de Vries’ fifth career Formula E victory and his first since Berlin in 2022, Formula E and the FIA said. ### How did de Vries take the lead if Ticktum started on pole? Dan Ticktum led the field away from pole, but Formula E said de Vries was among the first drivers to make his Pit Boost stop, diving into the pits on Lap 16. That undercut put the Mahindra driver in position to attack later in the race. (fia.com) António Félix da Costa briefly held the lead after the pit sequence, but Formula E said de Vries used ATTACK MODE to pass him on Lap 20 and then pulled clear. The FIA said de Vries reached the flag with about a three-second margin over the cars behind. ### What did the final order look like after the stewards’ decisions? (fia.com) The FIA’s final classification listed de Vries first, Evans second and Martí third. Felipe Drugovich finished fourth for Andretti, followed by Sébastien Buemi and Joel Eriksson. Dan Ticktum crossed the line in podium position but was classified 12th after what the FIA document described as a drive-through penalty converted into a 33-second time penalty under stewards’ decision No. 16. (fia.com) The same classification showed Félix da Costa as not classified after completing 26 laps. (fia.com) ### What changed in the championship picture? Mitch Evans left Monaco with the Formula E drivers’ championship lead, Formula E said, moving ahead of Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein and opening a 15-point advantage. The series also said Jaguar moved ahead of Porsche in the teams’ standings, while Porsche remained first in the manufacturers’ table. (fia.com) Nyck de Vries’ win also carried team significance for Mahindra. Formula E and the FIA both described it as Mahindra’s first victory of the GEN3 era, with de Vries calling it “the first one for Mahindra together” in comments published by the governing body. ### What did de Vries say after the race? (fia.com) Nyck de Vries said Mahindra “executed the right calls at the right time” and said the result was emotional after what he described as a difficult period. He said the team had “the right energy to push during the pit window.” (fia.com) The FIA quoted de Vries as saying he joined Mahindra in 2024 when the team was “penultimate last” and that it finished fourth in the teams’ championship last year. He said the team remained “more ambitious than that.” ### What else happened during the race? Lap 4 brought an early safety car after contact involving Nick Cassidy and Jake Dennis, according to Formula E’s race report. (fia.com) The series said Dennis hit the barriers and retired, while Cassidy later received a 10-second penalty for the incident. The same report said Monaco’s narrow layout produced further incidents after the restart, including contact involving Nico Müller and Pascal Wehrlein. (fia.com) Those incidents did not prevent de Vries from controlling the closing laps once he cleared da Costa. ### When is the next Monaco race? Formula E’s official Monaco event page listed Race 2 of the double-header for May 17. (fiaformulae.com) The series homepage showed qualifying for Round 10 on May 17 and reported that Ticktum took pole again for the second race. (fiaformulae.com)