Jean-Eric Vergne remained at the top of the timesheets in second practice for the Misano E-Prix.
The DS Penske driver set a best time of 1m 17.482, 0.020s quicker than NEOM McLaren’s Jake Hughes, with Envision Racing’s Sebastien Buemi 0.101s off the top spot. Nick Cassidy was fourth quickest, but finished the session in the tire barriers at the final corner.
Approaching at speed while on a flying lap, the Jaguar TCS Racing driver was forced onto the grass on the outside by Hughes, who was part of a gaggle of slow cars on the racing line preparing for a final quick lap. Unable to slow his car on the grass, Cassidy continued onto the gravel trap on the outside of Turn 14 before slamming into the wall, causing front end damage.
Stoffel Vandoorne once again ensured there were two DS Penskes in the top-five by winding up fifth, ahead of Mitch Evans and Robin Frijns of Jaguar and Envision Racing respectively, while Andretti’s Jake Dennis, and McLaren’s Sam Bird, and Nico Mueller completed the top-10, Mueller just bettering his Abt Cupra teammate Lucas di Grassi by 0.003s.
After missing FP1 on Friday due to a battery change – something that required the Mahindra team to break curfew and remain at the track until 1AM – Edoardo Mortara finished 12th, ahead of Andretti driver Norman Nato, Nissan’s Sacha Fenestraz, and TAG Heuer Porsche driver Antonio Felix da Costa.
Nyck de Vries was 16th quickest in the other Mahindra, ahead of Tokyo E-Prix winner Maximilian Guenther of Maserati MSG Racing, ERT’s Dan Ticktum, and Pascal Wehrlein in the other Porsche.
Jehan Daruvala (Maserati), Oliver Rowland (Nissan), and Sergio Sette Camara (ERT) completed the field after stopping early on. While Cassidy’s incident in the final moments of the session didn’t bring out a red flag – the resultant yellows did prevent anyone from bettering their time late on – Camara’s car grinding to a halt on the outside of Turn 9 six minutes into the session did, and necessitated a 10 minute extension to proceedings.