Stoffel Vandoorne takes pole for Race 1 in Valencia

In one breath (28 thousandths), Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes) snatched pole from the outgoing champion of the Formula E, António Félix da Costa (DS Techeetah) for the first race of Valencia this Saturday afternoon.

At the end of the qualifying groups, Alex Lynn (Mahindra), registered in the fourth and last group, set the provisional best time in 1'26"799, 40 thousandths ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne, in the lead for a long time after dominating the first group. .

The top 6 for Super Pole then consists of Lynn, Vandoorne, Maximilian Günther (BMW i Andretti), António Félix da Costa, Sébastien Buemi (Nissan e.dams) and Nyck de Vries (Mercedes), all grouped into 115 thousandths.

If António Félix da Costa seems set to dominate the session after being ahead of Nyck de Vries by more than two tenths, Vandoorne steals the best time from the Portuguese, with a new reference in 1'26 "494. Alex Lynn will not be able to do better than the fifth time at the end of his attempt, thus validating the Belgian driver's pole.

But with the five-place penalty inflicted on Nyck de Vries after the Rome ePrix, Vandoorne will start on pole ahead of Félix da Costa, Günther, Lynn, Buemi, and André Lotterer (Porsche).

Eliminated at the end of the qualifying groups, Norman Nato (Venturi) will start 7th in this race 1 after having failed less than a tenth from the Super Pole, when Jean-Eric Vergne (DS Techeetah) was only able to sign 13th time.

Race 1 of the Valencia ePrix will start shortly after 15 p.m. French time.