The 2021 Valencia ePrix (formally the 2021 DHL Valencia E-Prix) was a pair of

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electric car races held at the

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in the town of

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near

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on 24 and 25 April 2021. Having previously hosted numerous pre-season tests, this was the inaugural running of a competitive Formula E event at the track, as well as the first time an ePrix was held in Spain. It marked the fifth and sixth rounds of the

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. The first race was won by

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, with

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and

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rounding out the podium.

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took his first Formula E victory in the second race, finishing ahead of

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Classification

Race one

Qualifying

Notes: * –

received a 5-place grid penalty for causing a collision in the previous race in

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. * –

originally qualified first with a 1:26.839 in the group stage and a 1:26.494 in the superpole, but later had all his lap times cancelled due to a tyre infringement.

Race

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

received a 5-second time penalty for forcing another car off the track, and a further post-race 10-second time penalty for failing to fulfil the total amount of time of his second attack mode. * –

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received a post-race drive-through penalty converted into a 30-second time penalty for failing to activate the second of the two mandatory attack modes. * – Both

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drivers pulled into the pit lane at the end of the final lap after exceeding the maximum energy usage. As they did not cross the chequered flag, they were not classified. * – Rowland,

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, Lynn and

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originally finished 2nd, 3rd, 9th, 10th and 11th respectively, but were disqualified from the race due to their energy used being over the regulatory limit.

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

Notes: * –

and

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received a 3-place grid penalty each for causing a collision in race one.

Race

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

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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.

Controversy

The ending of the first race caused controversy after roughly half of the field ran out of power at the end with five cars being disqualified and two retiring for this reason. Frédéric Bertrand, circuit championships director of the

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, said after the race that the finish of the race "demonstrated how difficult it was to win in

", yet conceded that it should "never happen again". His comments were blasted by

, one of the drivers disqualified for energy use, who stated that Formula E would become the "joke of the week" following that finish. Despite this the FIA stood by its energy management rules and race winner

said that Formula E is "not necessarily" at fault.

Notes

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