The race started at 16:00
Western European Time (
UTC+0) on 13 January. The weather at the start were dry and sunny with the air temperature between and the track temperature . Chassis manufacturer
Spark Racing Technology ordered that Rosenqvist's
battery be changed half an hour before the race began after Mahindra were alterted to the problem. Similarly, Buemi began the race in his second car as the one he intended to start in had a
water pump failure.
Audi undertook a precautionary
power inverter change in di Grassi's car. Buemi made a clean start to retain the lead heading into the first corner as Bird and Rosenqvist maintained second and third. Both ran close behind Buemi as most drivers also made clean starts. Mortara made contact with another car further down the field. Lynn was spun onto the run-off area, and re-joined the track in 19th. Turvey was the main beneficiary of the incident, moving to 15th place. He drove off the
racing line and Audi instructed him to stop his car. Di Grassi attempted a restart procedure, prompting the waving of localised
yellow flags.
(pictured in 2016) passed Buemi to secure his third career victory and his second in a row. Meanwhile, his teammate Abt overtook Piquet for fourth but was issued a drive-through penalty for his earlier contact with Lynn. Abt exited the pit lane behind Lynn in 15th place as Turvey moved to tenth. Vergne was sixth and his teammate Lotterer 13th. The problems affecting the Audi pair of di Grassi and Abt promoted López to fourth. Course officials waved yellow flags at the section of the track Lotterer stopped at for half a minute until the race director decided a full course yellow was necessary. Piquet set the eace's fastest lap on the penultimate lap, completing a circuit in 1 minute, 22.832 seconds, earning him one point. Buemi followed 0.945 seconds later in second and Bird completed the podium in third. Off the podium, Piquet equalled his best result of the season in fourth and Vergne took fifth. Engel was deemed responsible for causing the Heidfeld-Mortara crash and incurred a post-race drive through penalty converted into time, dropping him to twelfth. Buemi stated he did not mind losing the win to Rosenqvist, feeling the latter had "payback" after his victory in the second
2017 Berlin ePrix was revoked because of a sporting infringement, "When you lose a race you always end up a bit disappointed. But everyone thought we had no pace and we were done, and we came here, had pole and finished second. We showed everyone we're still there." The final positions moved Rosenqvist to top of the Drivers' Championship for the first time in his career with 54 points. Bird's second-place result dropped him to four points behind Rosenqvist in second while Vergne fell to third place after finishing fifth. Piquet gained three positions to move into fourth on 25 points and Mortara was fifth, one further point behind. Mahindra further extended their advantage atop of the Teams' Championship on 75 points; Virgin had 17 less points but still maintained second place and Techeetah remained in third. Jaguar overtook Venturi for fourth with nine races left in the season. Rosenqvist spoke of his satisfaction of leading the championship and revealed it motivated him not to take too many risks in the upcoming races.
Race classification Drivers who scored championship points are denoted in
bold.
Notes: • — Three points for
pole position. • — One point for
fastest lap. • —
Maro Engel had twenty seconds added to his race time for causing a collision. • —
Nico Prost was penalised twenty seconds for exceeding the speed limit during the
full course yellow period. ==Standings after the race==