Techeetah secures front row lockout with Vergne on pole in Berlin

Techeetah ﷽was the team to beat in group qualifying as Vergne led the wa✤y after his storming lap in group two.
Da Costa eclipsed Lucas di Grassi’s provisional pole time by over a tenth, but it wasn’t enough ♊as Vergne found eve✨n more time at the death in Superpole.
Vergne took to the top with🌠 a 1m06.227s, just under 0.080s ahead of his teammate.
Di Grassi was an impres✤sive third for Audi, ahead of the Venturi🔴 duo of Edoardo Mortara and Norman Nato.
Sebastien Buemi completed the top six after progressed into Superpole from group 🌱four with Nato.
Mitch Evans narrowly missed out on Super Pole in s💖eventh ahead of Jake Dennis.
Dennis looked on course to comfortably ma꧅ke the top six but encountered traffic on his qualifying lap after deciding not to do a build-up lap.
The guilty party was Mercedes’ Nyck de ﷽Vries, who could feel the wrath of the stewards afte🧜r the session if he is judged to have blocked Dennis.
Pasca🧜l Wehrlein and Maximilian Gunther rounded out the top ten in Berlin
♏Next up was Oliver Rowland and Sam Bird, while Rene Ra💫st couldn’t match his teammate’s pace with 13th.
Nick Cassidy and Andre Lotterer completed the top 15, with the latter recently retaineꦐd by Porsche for next season.
It was a disastr⛄ous qualifying session for Merce🧔des, with championship leader de Vries qualifying 19th.
Stoffel🥂 Vandoorne didn’t fare any better with the Belgian set to 🌌start from 22nd on the grid.
Robin Frijns will start the race from 23rd, making a mistake at the hairpin on his run in the first qualify🍸ing group.
Joel Eriksson c🀅ompletes the grid for the first Berlin E-Prix.
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