da Costa claims Marrakesh FE pole, nightmare for points leader Evans
Antonio Felix da Costa claimed his first FIA Formula E pole position for DS Techeetah as championship leader Mitch Evans suffered a nightmare sessio🌺n 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 firᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚst tiꦓme 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 Evan൲s suffered a nightmare session in Marrakesh.
da Costa turned 🎃in a brilliant 1m17.158s to deny Maximil🌄ian 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.
I🧜t marks the Portuguese racer’s first pole since joining Techeetah f🀅rom BMW and the first time he has topped qualifying since the 2018-19 season-opener in Saudi Arabia.
A✅ndre Lotterer also 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 sessionꦍ, who is joined on the second row of the grid by Mercedes driver Nyck de Vries.
Venturi’s Edoardo Mortara outpaced Nissan driver Sebastien Buemi bꦡy ju✅st 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 and will start at the very back of th♋e 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 inꦅvestigation for crossing the finish line twice after the chequered flag.
Jerome d’Ambro🍃sio 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.
Nissan’s Oliver Rowland was n🌄inth, while James Calado rounded out the top 10 as the lead Jaguar driver as the Briton secured his best quꦑalifying result to date.
Reigning FE champion Jean-Eric Vergne, wh🦂o has been battling illness throughout the week𝓀end so far, was a notable absentee from the top 10 in 11th place for DS Techeetah.
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