First victory in FR for Vergne

Starting from pole position, Jean-Eric Vergne was uncompromising during the first Formula race Renault 2.0 WEC. The pilot Red Bull widened the gap in the first five laps to put himself out of reach of his Spanish teammate Miki Monras. The podium – 100% allocated to the SG Formula team – is completed by the Emirati Ramez Azzam, who took advantage of the errors of his teammates Hugo Valente and Dominic Storey. Arthur Pic took 4th place from Albert Costa on the last lap. The Spaniard is the best representative of the Epsilon Euskadi team, not very happy on the wet track.

“My main objective was to get a good start, because I knew that then I had the potential to widen the gap,” explained Jean-Eric Vergne. “Everything went very well and I even took the opportunity to test some new trajectories. » Second with the best lap in the race, Spaniard Miki Monras agreed that his teammate was the strongest: “I got off to a good start, but not enough to worry Jean-Eric. He made the difference in the first laps and I couldn't catch him. However, we have roughly the same settings, so I still need to improve. »