De Vries and Rowland win as Monaco hosts best-ever E-Prix double
By Laurent Duval, MonacoViews Editorial
Nyck De Vries and Oliver Rowland took victory in the 10th and 11th Monaco E-Prix respectively, with event director Solenne Arrighi calling it the strongest weekend in the race's history.
The Circuit de Monaco delivered two Formula E races in a single weekend for the first time, with Mahindra's Nyck De Vries winning Saturday's contest and Nissan's Oliver Rowland taking Sunday's honours. Both races drew strong crowds to the grandstands around the Principality's street circuit, completing a double-header format new to the Monaco leg of the FIA Formula E World Championship.
Solenne Arrighi, director of the Monaco E-Prix, described the weekend as the finest in the event's eleven-year history, pointing to the quality of racing on track and the atmosphere in the stands as the two factors that set this edition apart from its predecessors.
The result adds another layer to Monaco's already packed motorsport calendar. With the Formula 1 Grand Prix a fixture every May, the E-Prix has steadily carved out its own identity on the same streets, and back-to-back victories for two different manufacturers underlined the competitive depth the all-electric series now brings to the circuit.