Jean-Eric Vergne took the pole position for the Swiss ePrix at Bern Street Circuit, the 11th of 13 races on the 2018-2019 Formula E schedule.
DS Techeetah’s Jean-Eric Vergne took his first pole position of the 2018-2019 Formula E season by taking the pole position for the 13-race season’s 11th race, the Swiss ePrix, at Bern Street Circuit.
In doing so, he become the eighth different polesitter so far this season. While he started from the pole position in the season’s ninth race, the Monaco ePrix, he did so as a result of a grid penalty that was issued to Nissan e.dams’ Oliver Rowland, who originally qualified on the pole.
Vergne, one of two drivers who has won two races already this season and the leader of the driver standings, took the pole for this 45-minute race around the 14-turn, 1.657-mile (2.667-kilometer) Bern Street Circuit temporary street circuit in Bern, Switzerland by recording a top lap time of 78.813 seconds (75.688 miles per hour) in the Super Pole qualifying session in his #25 Spark-DS Automobiles.
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Set to start the race alongside Vergne on the front row is Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s Mitch Evans, who qualified in second place in his #20 Spark-Jaguar.
Nissan e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi, Mahindra Racing’s Pascal Wehrlein and Geox Dragon Racing’s Maximilian Gunther are set to round out the top five on the starting grid for this race after qualifying in third, fourth and fifth place in their #23 Spark-Nissan, #94 Spark-Mahindra and #6 Spark-Penske, respectively.
Envision Virgin Racing’s Sam Bird was the slowest of the six drivers who advanced to the Super Pole qualifying session in this session. He qualified in sixth place in his #2 Spark-Audi.
Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler’s Daniel Abt, DS Techeetah’s Andre Lotterer, Envision Virgin Racing’s Robin Frijns and Panasonic Jaguar Racing’s Alex Lynn are set to round out the top 10 on the starting grid for this race after qualifying in seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th place in their #66 Spark-Audi, #36 Spark-DS Automobiles, #4 Spark-Audi and #3 Spark-Jaguar, respectively.
Here are the full qualifying results for the 2019 Swiss ePrix at Bern Street Circuit.
Qualifying Results
1st – Jean-Eric Vergne
2nd – Mitch Evans
3rd – Sebastien Buemi
4th – Pascal Wehrlein
5th – Maximilian Gunther
6th – Sam Bird
7th – Daniel Abt
8th – Andre Lotterer
9th – Robin Frijns
10th – Alex Lynn
11th – Jerome d’Ambrosio
12th – Felipe Massa
13th – Oliver Rowland
14th – Oliver Turvey
15th – Stoffel Vandoorne
16th – Gary Paffett
17th – Alexander Sims
18th – Edoardo Mortara
19th – Lucas di Grassi
20th – Antonio Felix da Costa
21st – Tom Dillmann
22nd – Jose Maria Lopez
The 11th race of the 2018-2019 Formula E season, the Swiss ePrix, is scheduled to begin later today at 12:00 p.m. ET at Bern Street Circuit.