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in the town of Amozoc near

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on 19 and 20 June 2021. With usual

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patients, a replacement had to be found, making this the inaugural running of a competitive Formula E event at the track, and the sixth in the country. It marked the eighth and ninth rounds of the

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. The first race was won by

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ahead of his teammate René Rast and Edoardo Mortara, after pole-sitter and original race winner Pascal Wehrlein was disqualified due to a technical infraction. Edoardo Mortara won the second race to claim the championship lead, with Nick Cassidy and Oliver Rowland rounding out the podium.

Classification

Race one

Qualifying

Notes: * – Joel Eriksson and Sérgio Sette Câmara received a 20-place grid penalty each for changing the inverters in their Dragon / Penske Autosport cars. As they didn't qualify high enough to drop all 20 positions, they had to serve a drive-through penalty at the start of the race.

Race

Notes: * – Fastest lap. * – Pole position; fastest in group stage. * – Both

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and both Nissan e.dams cars were disqualified due to a technical infraction. Wehrlein, Lotterer and Buemi originally finished 1st, 16th and 18th, while Rowland had retired in the pits.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Race two

Qualifying

Race

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. * – Sérgio Sette Câmara received a 5-second time penalty for causing a collision.

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings ;Teams' Championship standings * Notes: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Notes

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