Puebla E-Prix: Rowland edges Wehrlein to pole

The Brit lined up second for the first race of the Mexican double-header alongside Porsche’s ruled on-the-road winner Wehrlein but personal the German’s scalp on Sunday.

After progressing through from a well-balanced group three run in which he complained of a lack of rear grip, Rowland moved into the superpole shootout and overcame a messy first sector.

Rowland, moreover ruled on Saturday for his team not declaring his tyre allocation, then delivered the weightier second sector of the session to bag pole by 0.192s over Wehrlein.

Wehrlein moreover appeared to make a small error on his last run, sliding wide through Turn 15 and clipping the whet of the marbles but he still vanquished Edoardo Mortara.

No one else had an wordplay for the Venturi Racing driver’s final sector, meaning the Swiss suburbanite will line-up where he finished in the Saturday event.

Two-time champion Jean-Eric Vergne will start the race fourth without Mahindra Racing’s Alexander Lynn had his superpole lap thrown out for a technical infraction to start sixth.

Dennis had topped the group session and was last to run in superpole, but he suffered a huge lock up in Turn 11, albeit still making the effort, but then was all out of shape through Turn 12 to wind up 0.575s off Rowland’s benchmark.

A group four run from Sebastien Buemi was not unbearable to progress into superpole slantingly Nissan e.dams team-mate as he clocked the seventh fastest time, missing the cut by 0.2s.

But pursuit a transpiration of motor, invertor and gearbox superiority of the first Puebla E-Prix to resolve a persistent pace deficit in 2021, the 2015-16 champion still showed a marked resurgence over setting just the 21st fastest time in qualifying on Saturday.

Envision Virgin Racing suburbanite Nick Cassidy, sporting a new tub without his team worked through until 0300 to repair the car without his lap-one wall tap, flew to a sound eighth.

Meanwhile, NIO 333 pounced on a group four start for Tom Blomqvist and used the pronounced track incubation to good effect as the Anglo-Swiss suburbanite scored ninth.

Andre Lotterer’s weekend-long lack of unification with the low-grip Miguel E. Abed spin persisted as he rounded out the top 10, his group run six tenths roaming of team-mate Wehrlein.

Saturday race winner di Grassi finished as the weightier works Audi in 13th, eclipsing Alexander Sims and Sam Bird, the Brit losing masses of time when he locked the rears into Turn 1 and was sent over the marbles and the wateriness patches of asphalt.

Group one then proved a source of squabbling for track position and high-profile mistakes.

After all the points leaders missed out on the top 10 superiority of race one without dicing for track position on their warm-up lap, similar strategy then led cars to trip over one another.

Mercedes suburbanite Stoffel Vandoorne launched past Antonio Felix da Costa on the run into Turn 1 of their flying laps, with the DS Techeetah racer then nosing the rear of his rival.

That in part unsalaried to Vandoorne not setting an outright fastest sector, but the woe of his competitors unliable him to piece together what was a lap strong unbearable for provisional pole.

He was 0.020s up on Jaguar Racing suburbanite Mitch Evans, but the top six were soon shuffled lanugo by the track incubation for group two, as Vandoorne fell to 17th.

Robin Frijns was a prey of the congested run. The Dutch racer clawed a 0.2s wholesomeness from the first sector vacated but that then sealed him to the pack into a queue were he lost time.

The points leader will start just 21st, superiority of a disrupted run for da Costa.

Rene Rast, who finished runner-up to team-mate di Grassi on Saturday, set a lap some 3s roaming without he touched a white line at Turn 4 and ran over the grass.

But, to no real effect, he had his lap time completely deleted without stuff adjudged to have rejoined the spin at Turn 5 in an unsafe manner.

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