{"id":751082,"date":"2026-06-21T07:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:05:12","slug":"andretti-loses-first-formula-e-1-2-after-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/751082\/","title":{"rendered":"Andretti loses first Formula E 1-2 after penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-time Formula E squad Andretti&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-e\/andretti-takes-first-1-2-as-title-rivals-have-disasters\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first-ever 1-2 finish<\/a> lasted only a handful of hours, before a penalty for Felipe Drugovich dropped him off the Sanya podium.<\/p>\n<p>The Andretti pair started first and second and finished first and third on the road, albeit with rookie Drugovich immediately promoted to second behind race-winning team-mate Jake Dennis thanks to a penalty for sometime Andretti driver Antonio Felix da Costa (now at Jaguar).<\/p>\n<p>Now Drugovich has copped a five-second penalty of his own, sanctioned for contact with Porsche&#8217;s title hopeful Pascal Wehrlein &#8211; for which the stewards deemed Drugovich &#8220;wholly responsible&#8221;, dropping him just off the podium (onto which Da Costa has been reinstated).<\/p>\n<p>The penalty also grants fellow rookie Pepe Marti second place in the classification, marking his best finish in Formula E so far.<\/p>\n<p>Nyck de Vries ends up third, having finished fourth on the road but been demoted to sixth with a blocking penalty, which was then rescinded.<\/p>\n<p>That brought the tally of time penalties that have been assessed in- and post-race down to six, four of them applied to the relevant driver&#8217;s finishing time.<\/p>\n<p>Amended results<\/p>\n<p>1 Jake Dennis<br \/>2 Pepe Marti +2.104s<br \/>3 Antonio Felix da Costa +5.702s*<br \/>4 Felipe Drugovich +6.112s*<br \/>5 Max Guenther +7.116s<br \/>6 Nyck de Vries +7.855s*<br \/>7 Nico Mueller +8.780s<br \/>8 Jean-Eric Vergne +9.036s<br \/>9 Taylor Barnard +9.373s<br \/>10 Lucas Di Grassi +9.881s<br \/>11 Zane Maloney +10.471s<br \/>12 Joel Eriksson +11.264s<br \/>13 Sebastien Buemi +12.491s<br \/>14 Pascal Wehrlein +12.742s*<br \/>15 Dan Ticktum +1m20.696s*<br \/>DNF Mitch Evans<br \/>DNF Nick Cassidy<br \/>DNF Oliver Rowland<br \/>DNF Norman Nato<br \/>DNF Edoardo Mortara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-time Formula E squad Andretti&#8217;s first-ever 1-2 finish lasted only a handful of hours, before a penalty for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-751082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}