Bird maintained the lead ahead of Jaguar teammate Mitch Evans at the start, although it was a close call for the Kiwi as he nearly speared into Bird into Turn 1 when he locked up 🐈at the start. 

With Evans running 🦋behind, Bird was under no threat as he won by over four seconds at the chequered flag. 

A 1-2 was on the cards for Jaguar until Evans hit the wall in the closing laps, da🀅maging the rear suspen✃sion of his car.

Evans pl𒁃ummeted down the order, dropping from second 🦹to finish 13th. 

With Ev🙈ans out of the way, Nick Cassidy finished second ahead of Antonꦅio Felix da Costa in third.

The Porsches ran close behind in fourth and fifth, Pascal Wehrlein ahead of Andreꦰ Lotterer♓.

Alexander Sims finished nine seconds behind Lotterer in sixth, in what was a lonely drive for the Mahindr༺a driver.

Sims was over eight seconds clear of Vent๊uri’s Norman Nato, while Robin Frijns salvage🔥d eighth.

Alex Lynn and Maximilian Gunther benefꦑitted from Evans’ issue and Sergio Sette Camara struggled for energy in the closing laps to complete the points-paying positions.

Lucas di Grassi finished inside the top ten on track but dropped to 14th having been handed a 10-second penalty for colliding with for🐬mer title rival Sebastien Buemi into Turn 1.

It was a disastrous day for Jean-Eric Vergne, who🍷 didn’t get off the line at the start o🗹f the E-Prix.

Formula E resumes in two weeks’ time in London.

Click here for the full FIA Formula E race results fཧrom the second New York✱ E-Prix.