Bird beats Jaguar Formula E teammate Evans to New York City E-Prix pole

Sam Bird will start the second New York City E-Prix from pole position after beating Jaguar teammate Mitch Evans in qualifying. 
Bird beats Jaguar Formula E teammate Evans to New York City E-Prix pole

Bird endured a tough first New York City E-Pꦓrix after he crashed heavily in practiওce, putting him on the backfoot going into qualifying.

The British driver recovered to finish inside the top ten and was the man to beaꦡt in Superpole.

Evans’ 1m08.6꧑62s stood at the top of the🀅 timesheets, just 0.001s ahead of Nick Cassidy.

Hav🀅ing topped group qualifying, Bird maintained his form into the Superpole shootout to secure pole in New York and had Jaguar its first-ever front row lockout.

Evans was left to rue a lock-up🐟 into Turn 1, costing him pole position.

Yesterday’s polesitter Cassidy sta🎃rts third ahead of Pascal Wehrlein, whil♔e Sergio Sette Camara impressed for Dragon with fifth.

ꦦAndre Lotterer made it two Porsches in the top six ahead of Antonio Fel♈ix da Costa.

Next up was the two Mahindras, Alꦦex Lynn just ahead of Alexander Sims, while Norman Nato could only manage tenth in group four.

Rain threatened quali🎐fying throughout wit꧅h group two impacted the most.

Lucas di Grassi, who finished third in the first New York E-Prix, was the highest driver ꦉfrom group two in 12th place.

Champi♋onship leader Edoardo Mortara was only 14tဣh as once again the group one participants struggled pace.

Robin Frijns is le🌟vel on points in the championship with Moಞrtara but will start from 21st.

Jean-Eric Vergne is set to start this afternoon’s E-Prix from the back of the grid after suffering a mec🌱hanical issue on his qualifying lap.

DS Techeetah team principal Mark Preston confirmed that the team will have to inve🦹stigate the issue after qualifying, stating that Vergne reported a ‘dead throttle’ over team radio.

Click here for the full FIA Formula 🎀E qualifying results from the second New York E-Prix.

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