Nick Cassidy rebounded from a horrible begin to System E’s title decider in London to seize pole place for the second London E-Prix race.
The Jaguar TCS driver did not set a time in observe on Sunday morning as a consequence of brake-by-wire points, issues that also threatened to derail his qualifying runs too. However a lap of 1m09.871s within the Duels remaining noticed him seize pole forward of Maserati MSG’s Maximilian Guenther by 0.169s.
Cassidy was up by solely 0.003s within the first sector, however a stellar second elevated that hole to over a tenth of a second. One other purple sector, this time faster by 0.56s, put all fears to mattress.
Forward of the ultimate, Cassidy topped the primary group session in entrance of fellow championship contender Pascal Wehrlein, Sam Fowl, and Robin Frijns – a efficiency he described because the “greatest job I’ve ever accomplished in System E”.
He then defeated Envsion Racing’s Frijns within the first spherical of the Duels, regardless of taking an excessive amount of curb at Flip 13 which unsettled his automotive via Flip 14. Subsequent up was TAG Heuer Porsche’s Wehrlein, who he beat by 0.163s.
Guenther had the same path to the ultimate, topping the second group forward of Mitch Evans, and the DS Penske pairing of Stoffel Vandoorne and Jean-Eric Vergne. He then defeated Vergne and Evans within the Duels, Evans unable to overtake a robust first sector from the German regardless of recovering within the remaining two components of the lap.
All three remaining championship contenders begin Sunday night’s season finale within the entrance two rows of the grid, with Evans lining up third straight behind his teammate, and Saturday winner and Wehrlein fourth.
Robin Frijns will begin fifth, with Vergne sixth and Vandoorne seventh. Sam Fowl will line up eighth with FP3 pace-setter Oliver Rowland and Antonio Felix da Costa finishing the highest 10.
Jehan Daruvala and Norman Nato will begin eleventh and 12 respectively, forward of Dan Ticktum, Lucas di Grassi and Jake Hughes. Nico Mueller will line up sixteenth, with Saturday podium finisher Sebastien Buemi seventeenth.
Sergio Sette Camara, Sacha Fenestraz, Edorado Mortara, Jake Dennis, and Nyck de Vries full the grid.
After pole and the three factors that include it, Cassidy strikes to inside a degree of Evans, and simply 4 behind Wehrlein, making Sunday’s race very a lot a winner-takes-all affair.
