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This is my farewell to you all! Jeddah offered us two completely different races. Yesterday Pascal Wehrlein won and today his former team-mate Felix da Costa celebrated his first victory with his new team! Formula E now has a break of just over a month before continuing in Madrid on 21 March!
Jake Dennis was unable to take advantage of his good starting position due to the tyre damage. He finished penultimate ahead of De Vries. Müller, Günther and Cassidy also remain without points.
Mortara narrowly misses out on a second podium in a row in 4th place, with both Cupra Kiro drivers behind him scoring points! Ticktum finishes ahead of Marti, but there will be some clarification needed. However, these are Ticktum's first points of the season! Evans, Wehrlein, Vergne and Barnard complete the top 10!
ANTONIO FELIX DA COSTA WINS! This is his first win with Jaguar! He's had a lot of bad luck this season but now he's celebrating his victory in Jeddah! Buemi finishes second and manages to hold off Rowland!
CUPRA KIRO COLLIDES WITH EACH OTHER! Ticktum sends the rookie into the wall! But both can continue. That was a huge risk. Both are currently in the points after all!
The battle for second place is very close! Felix da Costa will win! One more lap to go!
Felix da Costa has the race in his hands, and the last two laps won't change that. Buemi manages to crack Rowland right behind him! The leading pack no longer has attack mode. The top five are Felix da Costa, Buemi, Rowland, Mortara and Ticktum!
Ticktum and Rowland no longer have attack mode. Buemi and Mortara will now try to overtake them! Buemi has already passed Ticktum for 3rd place!
Felix da Costa activates his final attack mode. This lasts longer than that of his direct pursuers. Only Mortara and Buemi can benefit from the extra power for longer. However, the two are far behind.
Ticktum, Rowland, Buemi, Mortara and Wehrlein are now chasing Felix da Costa in attack mode! The lead has shrunk to two seconds.
Seven laps to go and Rowland now wants to counter! He activates six-minute attack mode! Felix da Costa drives away at the front in a similar way to Wehrlein yesterday. He has a four-second lead!
Felix da Costa is now in the lead, followed by Ticktum, who has also overtaken Rowland with an extra effort. Now Buemi also overtakes Rowland! The world champion is only in 4th place! Now only 5th place! Mortara overtakes Rowland, but it was very close before a collision!
Only ten minutes left on the clock! Now the race has really started. The laps are getting really fast and almost everyone has now activated their attack mode!
Dennis has changed the tyres. At the front, Felix da Costa has activated his attack mode and is now chasing Rowland, who is in the lead!
Jake Dennis has just activated his attack mode and now he has a puncture! He's slowing down! This probably takes away his chance of scoring good points despite starting in 2nd place.
Oliver Rowland snatches the lead with attack mode! Meanwhile, Evans is stuck in 6th place.
At the moment, Sebastien Buemi is leading ahead of Mortara and Felix da Costa. Further back, in 7th and 8th place, Rowland and Evans have now activated their attack mode.
Marti is cautioned for the collision with Maloney. The two had already collided yesterday and Maloney dropped out as a result.
The attack mode means that Lucas di Grassi is now in the Top 5 and the Lola-Yamaha-Abt is the weakest car in the field, so unconventional strategies are a source of hope!
The race is getting faster! A lot of energy was saved on the first ten laps. We'll probably see more attack mode activations very soon! There's a slight collision between Pepe Marti and Maloney! The Spaniard hits Maloney and damages his wing.
The top five at the moment are Mortara, who is now leading, Buemi, Felix da Costa, Di Grassi and Ticktum!
Lucas di Grassi is the first in attack mode. He comes from the back of the field and is already eighth!
Felix da Costa squeezes past Mortara. The Portuguese took the crowbar, there wasn't much space left for Mortara.
Now Buemi has to go for it again! The lead rotates every lap because nobody wants to drive at the front without the valuable slipstream!
Buemi has dropped back to fifth place and Rowland also relinquishes the lead. Pole-sitter Mortara is now first! But not for long, because Rowland overtakes him again in the penultimate corner combination!
The drivers' energy levels are all very similar. Only Rowland and Buemi are in a small deficit, as was to be expected.
Oliver Rowland drives significantly slower than Buemi. As a result, the field is compressed again. Rowland's lap in the lead is almost three seconds slower than Buemi's previous lap.
Sebastien Buemi drops back again. Rowland has to lead the race again. Felix da Costa remains in second place.
Felix da Costa also pushes past Rowland and is the new runner-up!
Oliver Rowland has the disadvantage of having to ride without a slipstream. This costs valuable energy, which is why he slows down and the field of drivers compresses. Sebastien Buemi now takes the lead and goes faster than Rowland!
The race is already completely different to yesterday. Saving energy is crucial today and that's why the race is relatively slow at the moment and the lead is less desirable.
Mortara relinquishes the lead! Oliver Rowland now leads the field ahead of Felix da Costa and Mortara. Dennis has dropped back to fourth place.
FULL CURRENT IN JEDDAH! The race is on! Mortara gets away very well and retains the lead. Felix da Costa catches Dennis for 2nd place! Now Dennis counters!
The drivers move to their starting positions...
The race starts in less than five minutes! Unlike yesterday, there are no pit stops with pit boost today
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In second place next to Mortara is Jake Dennis in his Andretti. They are followed by Antonio Felix da Costa and Oliver Rowland on row 2, with Jean-Eric Vergne, Maximilian Günther, Sebastien Buemi, Nick Cassidy, Dan Ticktum and Zane Maloney completing the top 10! Yesterday's winner, Pascal Wehrlein, will only start from 11th place.
Edoardo Mortara took pole position yesterday and he did it again today! The Swiss is in incredible form here in Saudi Arabia. Yesterday he gave away the chance of victory with a bad start. That probably won't happen to him today.
Welcome back to the live ticker! The second race from Jeddah starts in just under ten minutes!
