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First Tokyo E-Prix qualifying rained out, Rowland gets pole from FP2 time
Qualifying for the first race of the Tokyo E-Prix has been canceled, in the interest of safety, due to adverse weather conditions.
The venue at Tokyo Big Sight, the Tokyo International Exhibition Centre, has been subject to heavy rain throughout Saturday, with the morning’s practice session taking place in extreme wet conditions.
While that did go ahead, continued rain and standing water meant that qualifying was called off after a 40 minute delay. The decision has been made with a view to the race later on in the afternoon (scheduled for 15:05 local time, 02:05 ET) still going ahead. Better conditions are expected.
As a result of the qualifying cancelation, the grid for Saturday’s race will be set by FP2 times, and the usual three points for pole position will not be awarded.
That means Oliver Rowland will start on pole for Nissan ahead of Mahindra's Edoardo Mortara, with Norman Nato starting directly behind his Nissan teammate in third.
Taylor Barnard will line up fourth for NEOM McLaren, with Nyck de Vries of Mahindra and Envision Racing's Sebastien Buemi sixth.
The fourth row of the grid will feature Cupra Kiro's Dan Ticktum and DS Penske's Jean-Eric Vernge, with Vernge's teammate, the 2024 Tokyo E-Prix winner Maximilian Guenther ninth and Robin Frijns 10th.
Antonio Felix da Costa will start 11th ahead of Sam Bird, with Nick Cassidy and Stoffel Vandoorne next. Jake Hughes occupies 15th on the grid, ahead of Zane Maloney, Pascal Wehrlein, and Lucas di Grassi. Mitch Evans, and David Beckmann occupy the penultimate row, while Andretti’s Nico Mueller and Jake Dennis round out the grid.
Dominik Wilde
Dominik often jokes that he was born in the wrong country – a lover of NASCAR and IndyCar, he covered both in a past life as a junior at Autosport in the UK, but he’s spent most of his career to date covering the sliding and flying antics of the U.S.’ interpretation of rallycross. Rather fitting for a man that says he likes “seeing cars do what they’re not supposed to do”, previously worked for a car stunt show, and once even rolled a rally car with Travis Pastrana. He was also comprehensively beaten in a kart race by Sebastien Loeb once, but who hasn’t been?
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