The dirt and dust made for a tough first Free Practice for the Formula E grid. Nissan’s Oliver Rowland topped the timesheets in the delayed session, but drivers were quick to reference the lack of grip when it came to their lap times. Rowland set a time of 1m15.400s, but laps were five seconds off what the GEN3 cars managed here last year. But now we are so far off in terms of grip and I am sure that tomorrow in FP2 it will change again, so I am not sure we will actually change a lot tonight.”. But the track is gripping up all the time and you clearly see there is one line going, so if you put one wheel off that line you’re off.

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