The history books will remember that on the same weekend, PSG won its first Champions League football title, while DS Penske scored its first double in the Formula E world championship. It was a victory meticulously crafted by Max Gunther, but also a brilliantly smart race by Jean-Eric Vergne, resulting in an unprecedented victory for the Franco-American team. But just when everything seemed to be falling into place for a perfect weekend, the weather threw a spanner in the works on Saturday night. Undeterred, the race directors adjusted the schedule to avoid the heaviest rain, and by 7AM the electric cars were queuing up on the pit straight to take to the track.
This final practice session before qualifying was scheduled to last 30 minutes, which was enough to realise how difficult it was to drive in these conditions. After six minutes, a red flag suspended the session as the conditions were deemed too poor. The cars returned to the pits to wait for further instructions. The race directors then decided to extend the session by 30 minutes, until 8AM, but the rain intensified. Meanwhile, the teams pampered their cars, kept the batteries at the right temperature and monitored the tyre pressure (set higher than normal for driving on wet ground). Then, shortly before 7:50AM, it is announced that the practice session is cancelled, in the hope that conditions will improve for qualifying.
