Jean-Eric Vergne claimed his third pole place of the season and a brand new outright Method E document forward of the Portland E-Prix, beating Antonio Felix da Costa by simply 0.025s.
The DS Penske driver produced a 1m08.779s having been simply fractionally quicker within the first and third sectors on the Portland Worldwide Raceway and with it his seventeenth Method E pole which is a brand new document.
Vergne superior to the ultimate on the expense of Envision’s Robin Frijns, the 2 podium finishers from Saturday’s race separated by 0.219s on the line, with McLaren’s Sam Bird simply over a tenth off da Costa’s finest, the Portuguese driver looking for a hat-trick of wins on the bounce later right now.
Regardless of Pascal Wehrlein being solely 24 factors off Nick Cassidy within the championship battle, no staff orders have been at play when the Porsche team-mates went up in opposition to one another within the quarter-finals.
Da Costa comfortably superior by 0.373s over Wehrlein with a 1m08.750s that was the quickest time in qualifying and which denied the German the possibility of preventing for the three factors awarded for pole.
Cassidy himself did not progress to the semi-finals as he fell 0.141s brief in his battle in opposition to Vergne, regardless of being fractionally faster within the opening sector.
Simply 0.014s separated McLaren’s Jake Hughes and Frijns, with the latter popping out on high, as Fowl completed almost two tenths faster than Mahindra’s Nyck de Vries.
Nick Cassidy, Jaguar TCS Racing, Jaguar I-TYPE 6
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Polesitter for Saturday’s race and on-the-road winner earlier than a five-second penalty was utilized, Mitch Evans did not progress from the opening qualifying group because the Jaguar driver dropped out by simply over half a tenth.
He completed sixth behind Maserati MSG’s Jehan Daruvala, who in flip missed the reduce by solely 0.003s, as Frijns headed Vergne, Cassidy and Hughes.
Additionally eradicated have been Nico Muller (Abt), Dan Ticktum (ERT), Lucas di Grassi (Abt) and the second Maserati MSG of Maximilian Guenther as simply 0.340s coated 10 drivers.
The second Envision of Sebastien Buemi was additionally eradicated in eighth, earlier than he was stripped of his quickest laps resulting from a technical infraction.
Saturday’s race winner da Costa topped the second group with a 1m09.726s as he was joined by Fowl, de Vries and team-mate Wehrlein.
Forward of Andretti’s residence race, reigning champion Jake Dennis might solely handle ninth after shedding management into Flip 12 and struggling a high-speed spin on his closing effort.
Crew-mate Norman Nato had earlier gone off on the exit of Flip 11 and fared no higher on the chequered flag, ending tenth.
Norman Nato, Andretti International, Porsche 99X Electrical Gen3
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Moments after the Frenchman had gone off, he was joined on the grass by Nissan’s Caio Collet, with Oliver Rowland’s stand-in ending the session final and below investigation after rejoining into the trail of Edoardo Mortara.
The Mahindra driver, who claimed his finest results of the season with fourth in yesterday’s race, was additionally eradicated in sixth, only a fraction behind DS Penske’s Stoffel Vandoorne who missed the reduce by 0.004s.