Sebastien Buemi tops first practice session ahead of the Long Beach ePrix

Renault e.dams driver Sabastien Buemi was fastest in the first practice session of the Long Beach ePrix in a session that didn't have much action within it.

The Swiss driver was 0.4 seconds ahead of DS Virgin's Sam Bird in second place and ahead of Amlin Andretti driver Simona De Silvestro in third place after sneaking into the top three with five minutes ago and she was quicker than Andretti teammate Robert Frijns in fourth place by 6 thousandths of a second.

Salvador Duran ended the session in ffith place while Stephane Sarrazin in the Venturi car was the last driver to get within one second of Buemi and was in sixth place. Antonio Felix da Costa was 0.65 seconds slower than his Venturi teammate Duran and finished in seventh place.
Lucas di Grassi finished the session in eighth. During the session, Di Grassi asked his team over the radio near the end of the session whether practice was finished, after he passed a number of cars cruising. He will hope that he is further up the classification for qualifying as he makes up for the disqualification in Mexico City.

His teammate Daniel Abt was not too far behind him, but finished in tenth place in the practice session as Renault e.dams driver Nico Prost separated them in ninth place.
Jean-Eric Vergne in the DS Virgin Racing machine ended the session in eleventh place, still struggling with the brakes on the car. Loc Duval and Jerome D'Ambrosio for Dragon Racing finished twelfth and thirteenth places, with 0.009 seconds the difference between the two.

Oliver Turvey beat his championship defending teammate Nelson Piquet Jr in the practice session, the two finishing fourteenth and sixteenth places respectively. Mike Conway separated them in fifteenth place, and had a moment going into turn five near the beginning of the session.

The two Mahindra Racing drivers, Nick Heidfeld and Bruno Senna, will be disappointed that they finished at the bottom of the standings and have a lot of work ahead of them to do if they want a good result from this weekend.

Sarah Jones- @jonesy_laaa