Championship leader Sebastien Buemi started the Faraday Future Long Beach ePrix in the perfect fashion by setting pace in the opening free practice session.
The Renault e.dams racer recorded a lap of 57.383, putting him 0.4s ahead of DS Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird. It was a good session for the Andretti team, with Simona de Silvestro an excellent third and one place and 0.006s ahead of team-mate Robin Frijns.
Showing the competitiveness of the season one package, Salvador Duran – who topped the times for a large part of the session – was fifth fastest for Team Aguri. Stephane Sarrazin was sixth quickest for Venturi.
Last year’s winner Nelson Piquet Jr was 16th fastest for NEXTEV TCR, just behind two-time Long Beach Grand Prix winner Mike Conway, who’s racing for Venturi.
The next session takes place at 10.30am (PST).