Bird endured a tough first New York City E-Prix after he crashed heavily in practice, putting him on the backfoot going into quali🎉fying.

The British driver recovered to finish inside the top ten and was the ꦉman to beat in Superpole.

Evans’ 1m08.662s stood a♕t the top of the timesheets, just 0.001s ahead of Nick Cassidy.

Having topped group qualifying, Bird maintained his form into the Sup🤡erpole 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 hܫim pole position.

Yesterday’s polesitter Cassidy starts third ahead of Pascal Wehrlein, while Sergiꦉo Sette Camara impressed for Dragon with fifth.

Andre Lotterer made it two Porsch💖es in𒀰 the top six ahead of Antonio Felix da Costa.

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

Rain threatened qualifyinꦕg throughout with gr✨oup two impacted the most.

Lucas di Grassi, who finished third in the first New York E-Prix, was the hi🔯ghest driver from group two in 12th place.

ꦜChampionship leader Edoardo Mortara was only 14th as once again the group one participants struggled pace.

Robin Frijns is ꦜlevel on points in the championship with Mortara but will start f♏rom 21st.

Jean-Eric Vergne is set to start this afternoon’s E-Prix🏅 from the back of the grid after suffering a mechanical issue on his quali🦂fying lap.

DS Techeetah team principal Mark Preston confirmed that the team will have to investigate 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.