Simon Evans kept his championship hopes alive by beating Sergio Jimenez to the chequered flag in what was a thrilling race at the Tempelhof Airport Circuit in Berlin.
The Kiwi started the seventh race of the 2019/20 season from fourth on the grid while Jimenez lined up in pole position and at the race start, tucked behind Caca Bueno who held the final podium spot on lap 1.
With 18-minutes remaining after establishing an advantage over fifth place, Evans activated his first use of Attack Mode to successfully close the gap to and pass Bueno into Turn 1, taking third.
An Attack Mode blunder from second-placed man Nick Foster allowed Evans to make further progress through the field as the 29-year-old moved forward with now only one car ahead.
At the front of the field, Jimenez reserved his two uses of Attack Mode for the closing minutes while Evans opted to run through the zone – situated around the outside of Turn 5 – with five-minutes + 1 lap remaining.
He dropped to third briefly but again inherited second by re-passing Bueno, ultimately closing in on Jimenez to take the lead when the Brazilian armed and activated the device with two-minutes left.
As Jimenez scrapped with his team-mate for second, Evans opened up a slight advantage that rapidly tumbled but with a second use of Attack Mode on the penultimate lap for his title rival behind, this again presented a cushion.
On the final lap, Jimenez launched his offensive into Turn 9 before again challenging for the lead into Turn 10, running out of his 35kW boost on the run to the chequered flag.
In a straight drag race, Evans flew to his second win of the season by only 0.139s ahead of Jimenez while Bueno took third place.
Foster, after missing Attack Mode on two occasions took fourth ahead of Alice Powell as the Briton completed the top five.
She was followed by VIP driver Abbie Eaton in sixth as a drive-through penalty for a jump start compounded Gregory Seger’s efforts when the Frenchman took seventh ahead of Takuma Aoki.
Fahad Algosaibi won in Pro-Am with ninth overall ahead of Paul Spooner and Adalberto Baptista who both came to blows in the closing stages of the race.
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