Lucas di Grassi took the pole position for the third race of the 2018-2019 Formula E season, the Santiago ePrix, at Parque O’Higgins Circuit.
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Lucas di Grassi took the pole position for the Santiago ePrix, which is the third race of the 13-race 2018-2019 Formula E season.
This pole position is di Grassi’s first pole position of the season. He is set to start the race on the front row in his #11 Spark-Audi alongside Nissan e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi, who qualified in second place in his #23 Spark-Nissan.
Di Grassi took the pole position for the 45-minute race around the 14-turn, 1.492-mile (2.401-kilometer) Parque O’Higgins Circuit in Santiago, Chile by recording a top lap time of 68.290 seconds (78.653 miles per hour) around the track in the Super Pole qualifying session.
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Di Grassi’s fastest lap time of the Super Pole qualifying session was 0.526 seconds (0.601 miles per hour) quicker than that of Buemi, as his fastest lap time of the session was 68.816 seconds (78.052 miles per hour).
Mahindra Racing’s Pascal Wehrlein, Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Daniel Abt and HWA Racelab’s Stoffel Vandoorne rounded out the top five by qualifying in third, fourth and fifth place in their #94 Spark-Mahindra, #66 Spark-Audi and #5 Spark-Venturi, respectively.
Envision Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird, Venturi’s Edoardo Mortara, Geox Dragon Racing’s Maximilian Gunther, BMW i Andretti Motorsport’s Antonio Felix da Costa and Venturi’s Felipe Massa rounded out the top 10 by qualifying in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #2 Spark-Audi, #48 Spark-Venturi, #6 Spark-Penske, #28 Spark-BMW and #19 Spark-Venturi, respectively.
Here are the full qualifying results for the 2019 Santiago ePrix.
Qualifying Results
1st – Lucas di Grassi
2nd – Sebastien Buemi
3rd – Pascal Wehrlein
4th – Daniel Abt
5th – Stoffel Vandoorne
6th – Sam Bird
7th – Edoardo Mortara
8th – Maximilian Gunther
9th – Alexander Sims
10th – Felipe Massa
11th – Jose Maria Lopez
12th – Mitch Evans
13th – Jean-Eric Vergne
14th – Oliver Rowland
15th – Andre Lotterer
16th – Robin Frijns
17th – Gary Paffett
18th – Antonio Felix da Costa
19th – Oliver Turvey
20th – Nelson Piquet Jr.
21st – Jerome d’Ambrosio
22nd – Tom Dillmann
Be sure tune to in to the live broadcast of the third race of the 13-race 2018-2019 Formula E season, the Santiago ePrix, on the Fox Sports app today at 2:00 p.m. ET or one of the delayed broadcasts of this race, which are set to today at 4:00 p.m. ET and tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. ET.