Alexander Sims picked up his third Formula E pole position in a row after topping qualifying for BMW in Di🌠riyah on Saturday, benefitting from early pa👍ce-setter Antonio Felix da Costa's error that left the Techeetah driver down in sixth.

Sims took pole for the season-opener in Diriyah on Saturday before finishi♓ng eighth in the race, leaving him in Group 3 for qualifying, with🐷 the improved track conditions helping him get through to Super Pole in fourth place.

Sims set aꦬ time of 1m11.418s in Super Pole despite a slide near the end of the lap, but it was enough to hand him pole by three-tenths of a sec▨ond from Nissan's Sebastien Buemi.

It makes Sims the first driver in Formu🅠la E history to take three pole posit🌃ions in a row.

Felix da Costa had set the fastest time in the combined qualifying heats, and was on course to beat Sims' pole time before a late mistake saw him drop over two seco♛nds, leaving him sixth on the g💦rid.

Audi's Lucas di Grassi recovered from his disappointing race on Satཧurday to qualify third ahead of 𝐆Jaguar's Mitch Evans, while Jerome d'Ambrosio took fifth on the grid for Mahindra.

Saturday race winner Sam Bird qualified seventh for Envisioꦬn Virgin ahead of Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian Gunther, with Porsche's Andre Lotterer completing the top 10.

Reigning chamওpion Jean-Eric Vergne could only qualify 11th, but will drop down the grid due to a post-qualifying penalty.

Mercedes drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries qualified 1💜2th and 24th respectively following the team's breakthrou𒊎gh podium on debut yesterday.