Formula E: Nato and Nissan top Thursday testing

Nissan’s Norman Nato fired to the top of the timesheets on Thursday’s fifth test session from Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia.

On his first official Formula E outing following his return to the series after a year out, the Frenchman steered to a 1m25.776s lap, which was enough to pip next best driver Oliver Rowland in the Mahindra by a tenth of a second.

Sebastien Buemi, Envision Racing’s new signing, turned in a 1m26.066s to placve third with Edo Mortara continuing Maserati MSG Racing’s hot streak with the fourth quickest time of the hour-long session.

The two Jaguar TCR Racing I-TYPE 6s, with Mitch Evans heading Sam Bird.

Reigning champion Stoffel Vandoorne (DS PENSKE) looked to have pinched the benchmark time at the last, only for his final run to be deleted for exceeding track limits.

Maximilian Guenther’s streak of three table topping times came to an end – the German found himself 19th this time around and a couple of seconds away from the ultimate pace.

Testing comes to a close on Friday with two sessions.

Thursday Results