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 leﷺd the way after his storming lap in group two.&nb😼sp;

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, justཧ under 0.080s ahead of his teammate.&nb♓sp;

Di Grassi was an impressive third for Audi, ahead of the Venturi duo⛦ of Edoardo Mortara and Norman Nato☂. 

Sebastien Buemi completed th🍰e top six after prﷺogressed into Superpole from group four with Nato.

Mitch Evans nar♕rowly missed out on Super Pole in seventh ahead of Jake Dennis.

Dennis looked on course to comf♚ortably make the top six but encountered traffic on his qualifying lap after deciding not to do a build-up lap.

The guilty party was Mercedes’ Nyck de Vries, who could feel the wrath of the stewards after the session if he is judged to have blocked Denn💦is.

Pascal Wehrlein and Maximilian ꦦGunther rounded out 𝓡the top ten in Berlin

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

N⛄ick Cassidy and Andre Lotterer completed the top 15, with the latter recently retained by Porsche for next season.

It was a disastrous ꧅qualifying session for Mercedes,෴ with championship leader de Vries qualifying 19th.

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

Robin Frijns will start the r༒ace from 23rd, making a mistake at the hairpin on his run in the first qualifying group.

Joel Eriksson complet🦩es the♑ grid for the first Berlin E-Prix.

Click here for the full FIA Formula E qualifying results from the first Berlin E-𒅌Priꦆx

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