Techeetah secures front row lockout with Vergne on pole in Berlin

DS Techeetah has locked out the front row for the first Berlin E-Prix with two-time Formula E champion Jean Eric-Vergne on pole position ahead of Antonio Felix da Costa.
Techeetah secures front row lockout with Vergne on pole in Berlin

Techeetah was the team to beat in group qualifying as Vergne led the 𝐆way after🐼 his storming lap in group two. 

Da Costa eclipsed Lucas di Grassi’s provisional pole time by over a tenth, but it wasn’t🍸 enough as Vergne found even more time at the death in Superpole.

Vergne took to the top with a 1m06.227s, just under 0.080s ahe꧅ad of his teammate. 

Di Grassi was aಌn impressive third fꦍor Audi, ahead of the Venturi duo of Edoardo Mortara and Norman Nato. 

Sebastien Buemi compl𒁏eted the top six after progressed into Superpole from group four with Nato.

Mitch Evans narrowly♑ missed out on Super Pole in seventh ahead of Jake Dennis.

Dennis looked on course to comfortably make th🏅e top six but encountered traffic on his qualifying lap after deciding not to do a build-up lap.

The guilty party was Mercede🎶s’ Nyck de Vries, who could feel the wrath of the stewards after the session if he is judged to have blocked Dennis.

Pascal Wehrlei༒n and Maximilian Gunther rounded out the top ten in Berlin

Next up was Oliver Rowland and Sam Bird, while Rene Rast couldn’t match his teammate’s pace wi📖th 13th.

Nick Cassidy and Andre Lotterer completed the top 15, with the latter ♏recently retained by Porsche for next season.

It was a disastrous qualifying session f🌜or Mercedes, with championship leader de Vries qualifying 19th.

Stoffel Vandoorne didn’t fare a𒈔ny better with the Belgian set to start from 22nd on the grid.

Robin꧑ Frijns will start the race from 23rd, making a mistake at the hairpin on his run in the first qua🧸lifying group.

Joel Eriksson completes the griܫd for the first Berlin Eℱ-Prix.

Click here for the fuওll FIA Formula E qualifying resu🌳lts from the first Berlin E-Prix

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