Wehrlein led the 26-lap race till 5 laps from dwelling as Rowland dived to the within of Flip 5 to maneuver into first.
The Nissan driver, who had inherited Saturday’s Misano E-Prix victory after on-the-road winner Antonio Felix da Costa was disqualified for a technical infringement, noticeably upped his tempo and headed Wehrlein by 1.4s onto the ultimate lap.
However exiting Flip 5 for the ultimate time, Rowland slowed permitting Wehrlein to maneuver into the lead and take his second win of the 2024 Method E marketing campaign after the season-opening Mexico Metropolis E-Prix.
Polesitter Jake Hughes initially led away from pole whereas behind Wehrlein moved into second on the expense of Jean-Eric Vergne across the outdoors of Flip 1.
It turned obvious that the tempo of the race was going to be a lot increased than Saturday’s manic contest, the place a number of place modifications happened each lap as drivers tried to avoid wasting power within the pack.
Whereas Wehrlein had run amongst the main bunch for almost all of the race, Rowland solely moved to the entrance for the primary time on the midway level having began down in tenth.
However Rowland, who additionally led the championship standings heading into the second race on the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, was already 2% down on power in contrast with these round him.
Oliver Rowland, Nissan Method E Staff, Nissan e-4ORCE 04, Pascal Wehrlein, Porsche, Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3, Jake Dennis, Andretti World, Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
Photograph by: Sam Bagnall / Motorsport Images
After transferring again to the entrance of the pack with 5 laps remaining, each Rowland and Wehrlein started to tug away from reigning champion Jake Dennis, who was pressured to defend from Abt’s Nico Muller within the closing laps.
Jaguar’s Nick Cassidy had moved into fifth three laps from dwelling, demoting Maximilian Guenther into the Flip 8/9 chicane, and instantly closed on Muller and Dennis forward.
With Rowland left to crawl dwelling, Wehrlein took victory by practically 2s as Dennis simply held on to second, a outcome which leaves him tied on factors with Wehrlein on the high of the standings.
Behind, Cassidy grabbed third on the run to the road on the expense of Muller, with polesitter Hughes managing to finish the highest 5 on-the-road.
However the McLaren driver was handed a five-second penalty for slicing the Flip 8/9 chicane on penultimate lap which dropped him to eighth.
It promoted Nissan’s Sacha Fenestraz into fifth from Sergio Sette Camara (ERT), Vergne (DS Penske), because the Maserati MSG’s of Guenther and Jehan Daruvala accomplished the highest 10.
However after the race Guenther was given a five-second penalty for inflicting a conflict with Vergne, dropping him right down to twelfth, which promoted Daruvala to ninth, Sam Bird (McLaren) to tenth and Lucas Di Grassi (Cupra Abt) to eleventh.