NEOM McLaren’s Sam Bird and Mahindra Racing’s Edo Mortara topped the ABB Driver of Progress rankings in the Diriyah E-Prix Rounds 2 & 3, respectively. Bird stayed sixth for 21 laps and in that time was consistently slower than the field average – around 4kph down on the average speed per lap. Unlike Bird, Mortara was not in a position to set up a similar strong points finish with an early charge in race two.Mortara’s near miss. Mortara’s battery usage increased quite substantially, never less than 2.8% during this phase and with a peak of 3.1% on lap 21. In fact, Mortara had one of the slowest top speeds of every driver all race.

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