FACTS AND STATS: Big margins, dominant drives and the best of the rest in Jakarta

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FACTS AND STATS: Big margins, dominant drives and the best of the rest in Jakarta

Jakarta has thrown a real challenge the way of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship's world class grid of teams and drivers, but one man really conquered - even if there were two race winners with one of those a key return to form in the title race. Here's our Indonesian double-header in numbers.

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- Maximilian Guenther (Maserati MSG Racing) sealed his first Julius Baer Pole Position ahead of Round 10

- He had five prior front row starts without a pole – the same as Lucas di Grassi’s run from Seasons 1 and 2 until his first pole in Season 3, at the Buenos Aires E-Prix

- Guenther doubled up on Sunday with a second pole. The last driver to do it back-to-back was teammate Edo Mortara in Berlin, Season 8

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- Germans have made pole in every season except Seasons 2 and 3. Season 5 was the only other time German drivers had taken more than one – with Pascal Wehrlein and Andre Lotterer on pole in Mexico City and Rome, respectively

- There were two intra-team Duels for the first time in qualifying. DS PENSKE and Maserati MSG Racing squared off in teammate battles in the quarters

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- Guenther became the first driver to top three quali groups in a row – Group B in Monaco and both Jakarta races

Landmarks and streaks

- Guenther sealed his 200th point. Germany is the first nation to have five drivers top that mark (Daniel Abt, Lotterer, Wehrlein, Guenther and Nick Heidfeld). British drivers are next best with three over the 200-point mark

- Jake Hughes started 20th and ended 10th in Round 10 – the first time the rookie and NEOM McLaren have managed to gain that much ground in a race

- Race 2 saw Mitch Evans (Jaguar TCS Racing) hit 90 Formula E races for the team – a record, equal with Oliver Turvey at NIO. Di Grassi (ABT) and JEV (TECHEETAH) are the only other drivers to pass 70 races for a single team

- DS PENSKE scored 24 points in Jakarta – seeing them pass the 600-point mark. They’ve scored more points in the last eight races than the prior 73

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- Jakarta marked their eighth score on the spin – equalling their best streak (the first eight races of Season 1). It was also the team’s 50th points-scoring race

- That was also Evans’ 10th third-placed finish. Only five drivers have finished in the same spot 10 or more times: Di Grassi (1st, 2nd and 3rd), Vergne (1st and 2nd), Sebastien Buemi (1st and 3rd), Sam Bird (1st and 7th) and Antonio Felix da Costa (11th)

- Five drivers have led more than 100km this season (Nick Cassidy, Wehrlein, Dennis, Evans and Guenther). Only Season 7 had more drivers lead over 100km.

Dominant runs

- Gunther topped eight sessions across the weekend in Jakarta (FP1, FP2, FP3, two qualifying group sessions, two poles and one race win) – equalling da Costa’s record eight sessions across the Berlin six-race nine-day event in Season 6

- 10 of Jake Dennis last 11 top 10 finishes have been podiums (two wins, six seconds, two thirds). The only time he’s missed out on silverware when finishing in the top 10 was Race 1 in Seoul, Season 8

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- Only five drivers have taken four podiums in a row and only two have done that twice. Dennis joins di Grassi, who claimed four in a row in Season 2 and seven in Season 4

Unusually big margins

- Guenther won Race 2 by 2.822 seconds. That’s only the second time a driver has won by more than two seconds in Season 9 (Jake Dennis, Mexico City). Season 7 saw a record 9/16 races won by more than that margin

- Mitch Evans’ third in Race 2 saw him 18.498 seconds off the lead – the fourth largest gap to the leader of any podium finisher. The three larger gaps came in Putrajaya, Season 2 (29.776 seconds), Mexico City, Season 2 (25.537 seconds) and Valencia, Race 1, Season 7 (34.886 seconds)

- Dennis took the Race 2 TAG Heuer Fastest Lap – the 100th bonus point by a British driver in Formula E. That’s seven points from Quali Groups between Seasons 6 and 7, 69 for poles and 24 for fastest laps. Bird tops the list of seven bonus-scoring Brits (34 points)

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- All four of Guenther’s victories in Formula E have come in different months (January, June, July and August)

- Bird failed to start Race 2 in Jakarta due to a technical issue on the grid. This marked the second time Bird has failed to start a race in Season 9 (after Cape Town), making him the first driver in Formula E to have two DNS’ in the same season