Mexico City E-Prix: Wehrlein beats teammate da Costa to take pole as Porsche dominates

reigning formula e champion Pascal Wehrlein Claimed back-to-back pole positions with best team-mate Antonio Felix Da Costa Porsche dominated qualifying for the Mexico City E-Prix.

The German entered the second round of the season with a new chassis after his spectacular shunt at the São Paulo season-opener, but that did not stop him from becoming the first driver to take pole position four times at the same venue.

Da Costa was initially less than a tenth faster in the starting field, but fell behind in the second field as he finished 0.324 behind his teammate.

Despite a small slide into the final turn for Wehrlein, he was able to take his eighth Formula E pole position by 0.125s with a 1m10.984s, as da Costa reported a problem with his car over the radio.

Da Costa set the fastest lap in the entire qualifying with a time of 1m 10.739 s in the semi-final stage, leaving him ahead by 0.184 s. Jean-Eric Vergne,

Wehrlein makes second consecutive qualifying final after besting Nissan oliver roland In the semi-finals, the Briton was partially ahead at the end of the second sector before losing two tenths in the final section.

Championship leader and Sao Paulo winner mitch evans Crashed out at the quarter-final duel stage, the Jaguar driver finished 0.280 seconds behind Rowland, as the Briton posted a 1m 11.058s courtesy of the 350 kW all-wheel-drive mode.

Wehrlein was never in the lead in his duel Edoardo Mortara When the Mahindra driver went too far inside Turn 1 and lost almost a second to Andretti jake dennis Da Costa finished almost half a second behind.

In the all-DS Penske affair, Vergne posted faster times in the first two fields to beat Maximilian Guenther by more than three tenths.

With the track still damp for the initial qualifying group, the final laps proved decisive as Wehrlein led Roland, Envision’s Sébastien Buemi and Evans.

But Buemi was robbed of his best time due to a throttle pedal map violation, promoting Mortara to the duels, having initially missed the cut by only two tenths as he was pitted. lucas di grassi Through the last corner.

The incident was investigated before no further action was taken as di Grassi was relegated to ninth place alongside his Lola-Yamaha ABT teammate. zane maloney Andretti was promoted to fifth ahead of Nico Muller.

kilo of cotton david beckman The Maserati was classified seventh ahead of MSG after running deep into Turn 1 during the session. Stoffel Vandoorne And mclaren‘S taylor barnardWhich was 4.5s behind Wehrlein’s 1m14.610s.

Taylor Bernard finished last in the group, almost 4.5 seconds off the 1m14.610 of Wehrlein, the McLaren driver.

As conditions improved, Guenther topped the second session with a time of 1:13.352 seconds, ahead of Dennis. nick cassidy And da costa.

Second DS Penske Vergne missed the cut by just 0.037 seconds, but like Mortara, the Frenchman progressed after Cassidy was stripped of his fastest lap for a throttle pedal map violation.

second hypothesis of robin frizens The forward finish at the start also suffered a similar fate. Sam BirdThe McLaren driver left disappointed as he was stopped on the final turn in Mahindra’s last-ditch effort Nick de Vries,

The incident was investigated and the Dutchman was given a three-place grid penalty and one penalty point.

maserati msg jake hugheswho was punished in the same manner as De Vries for obstructing the work of the Freijns, Capra Kiro dan tickham and nissan norman nato Provisional classification completed.

Mexico City E-Prix qualifying results