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Dominant race for Bird in Putrajaya

Sam Bird takes his first victory in FIA Formula E after starts from second place and dominate the whole race. Di Grassi and Buemi completes the podium after a great comeback from the back of the grid. Di Grassi now continues on the lead of the championship, followed by a solid Sam Bird.


20In the start Oriol Servià keeps Sam Bird at turn 1, followed by Sam Bird and Jarno Trulli. Legge crashes with Cerruti, and Brabham had a spin during the opening lap and thus cause the safety car.

After 3 laps the safety car came in and Bird overtakes Servià for the lead of the race. The Catalan also loses the second place with Trulli. Bird quickly makes an important gap with Trulli. Servià at lap 7 loses more places with Chandhok. At the same lap, Nick Heidfeld had to retire due to a crash into the wall when Montagny had tried to overtake him for seventh place. This cause the second safety car of the race. Abt came in for the car change and Cerruti retires.

With 11 laps done, the green flag came back, on this lap, Piquet had tried to overtake Servià but he cause a damage to Franck Montagny who needs to come into the pits. Montagny rejoins the race in the middle of the battle for fifth place where Senna crashes into the wall.¡, but he continues in the battle.

On lap 18, Brabham had stop his car at the same point where Heidfeld retires and this cause the reaction of Trulli, Chandhok, Servià, Piquet, Da Costa, D’Ambrosio.  One lap later, Di Grassi, Prost, Buemi, Alguersuari, Senna, Tung, Brabham, Montagny. Bird stops at lap 18, and this makes a good advantage after all car changes for Daniel Abt on first place with 24 seconds in front of Bird. Third was Trulli followed by Di Grassi, Piquet, Buemi, Prost, D’Ambrosio, Senna, Chandhok on top10.

With 10 laps to go Piquet overtakes Di Grassi for fourth place as Trulli and Montagny receives a drive thought penalty. A lap later Piquet had tried again with Trulli who not give to thr Brazilian a space to overtake.

Bird catches Abt with 5 laps to go, and retakes the lead again, a lap later the German lost the podium positions and downs to sixth place.

Finally, Bird takes the win, the championship leader Lucas Di Grassi finishes second and Buemi completes the podium in 3rd place. Prost 4th, D’Ambrosio 5th, Chandhok 6th, Servià 7th, Da Costa 8th, Alguersuari 9th and Abt 10th. Senna lost his fifth place after crash at last lap unto the wall.