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“Idiotic” first lap contact cost Vergne Marrakesh FE win
Reigning Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne says his “idiotic” first lap contact with Sam Bird cost him the Marrakesh win. Vergne started on the front row alongside Envision Virgin Racing’s Bird and despite an average getaway made a lunge into Turn 1 in which he brushed the right-rear of Bird’s car, spinning his DS Techeetah round. From the back of the field Vergne recovered to fifth before the safety car came out for Antonio Felix da Costa’s stricken BMW Andretti. “[It was] idiotic. Obviously I made a mistake in Turn 1 and I lost everything,” he said. “I clearly made a mistake. I don’t remember the last one I did. “Some drivers will tell you that [it was a brake...
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