da Costa claims Marrakesh FE pole, nightmare for points leader Evans
Antonio Felix da Costa c💦laimed his first FIA Formula E pole position for DꦐS Techeetah as championship leader Mitch Evans suffered a nightmare session in Marrakesh.
da Costa turned in a brilliant 1m17.158s to deny Maximilian Gunther a first pole in the se🦹ries by just 0.069s, afte🌳r the BMW driver’s lap faded having initially been up on da Costa’s benchmark through sector one.
It marks the Portugu🍌ese racer’s first pole since joining Techeetah from BMW and the first time he has topped qualifying since the 2018-19 season-opener in Saudi Arabia.
Antonio Felix da Costa claimed his first FIA Formula E pole ♊position for DS Techeetah as championship leader Mitch Evans suffered a nightmare session in Marrakesh.
da Costa turned in a brilliant 1m17.158s to deny Maximilian Gunther a first pole in the series by just 0.069s, after the BMW driver’s lap faded having initially been up🥂 on da Costa’s benchmark through sector one.
It marks the Portuguese racer’s first pole since joining Techeetah from BMW and the first time he has topped qualifying since the 20𝔉18-19 season-opener in Saudi Arabia.
Andre Lotterer ౠalso narrowly missed out on a first pole for Porsche as he wound up third-quickest and just 0.095s off the pace in a close Super Pole session, who is joined on the second row of the grid🎉 by Mercedes driver Nyck de Vries.
Venturi’s Edoardo Mortara ꦦoutpaced Nissan driver Sebastien Buemi by just 0.008s to beat the Swiss racer to fifth🔴 spot.
It was a disastrous qualifying for Evans and▨ Jaguar, who were left to rue a timing error as the 2019-20 points leader ran out of time to set a lap a𒅌nd will start at the very back of the grid.
The New Zealander,🔯 who felt he had the potential to post at least a 1m17.4s and had comfortably topped second practice, is also under investigation for cros🐬sing the finish line twice after the chequered flag.
Jerome d’Ambr🍨osio just missed out on a spot in Super🦩 Pole as he took seventh for Mahindra, ahead of BMW driver Alexander Sims, who sits second in the championship.
Nissa🎃n’s Oliver Rowland was ninth, while James Calado rounded out the top 10 as the lead Jaguar driver as the Briton secured his best qual🍌ifying result to date.
Reigning FE champion Jean-Eric Vergne, who has been battling i🐲llness throughout the weekend𝓀 so far, was a notable absentee from the top 10 in 11th place for DS Techeetah.
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