Nick Cassidy will start on pole for the first race of the New York E-Prix weekend, with the Envision driver setting a 1:08.980, beating out Mercedes’ Stoffel Vandoorne by just 0.008.
The New Zealander was in the first qualifying group, taking second behind his teammate Robin Frijns. He eliminated Sam Bird and Pascal Wehrlein on his route to the final, where he faced, and outqualified, championship challenger Vandoorne.
Behind Cassidy and Vandoorne, Wehrlein will start third and Bird fourth. Both qualified for the duels in the second group, which saw rain cause chaos. Title rivals Mitch Evans and Jean-Eric Vergne both didn’t get through to the duels, but Evans’ teammate Bitrd did, alongside Wehrlein, Lucas di Grassi, and Alexander Sims.
Sims and di Grassi will start sixth and seventh, behind group 1 qualifier Sebastien Buemi. Bird will start eighth, slowest in the duels, after he made a mistake at the first corner on his quarter final lap, losing over a second.
Championship leader Edoardo Mortara qualified ninth, missing out on the duels by mere thousandths of a second. Antonio Felix da Costa will round out the top 10, starting alongside Mortara in tenth, whilst Evans and Vergne will start down in 14th and 16th.
Race 1 starts at 1pm ET, 6pm UK time.
