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Cassidy gets London E-Prix Race 2 pole after penalty to Ticktum
Dan Ticktum topped qualifying for the first time in the second race of the London E-Prix but will start Sunday afternoons race from sixth on the grid after getting a penalty in the first race of the weekend.
The Cupra Kiro driver’s time of 1m 7.278 in the final of the head-to-head Duels was 0.216s quicker than Jaguar TCS Racing’s Nick Cassidy, but a five-place drop for spinning the other Jaguar of Mitch Evans on Saturday drops him back. He does, however, keep the three points for pole.
Ticktum started qualifying by going quickest in the second group session, and then demolishing Stoffel Vandoorne by 0.968s in his first Duel. A win over Maximilian Guenther followed to set up the final with Saturday's race winner.
Cassidy was fourth in the first group, behind the Mahindras of Edoardo Mortara and teammate Evans, and had an easy route through his first Duel after a braking issue took Mortara out of contention at the first corner.
In an all-Jaguar semifinal, Cassidy was quicker in the first sector but a mistake at Turn 16 cost him dearly. However, with second in the drivers' championship still in reach for Cassidy, Evans backed out in the final corner to give Cassidy a shot at pole.
With Ticktum’s penalty, Cassidy will start from pole, ahead of Maximilian Guenther, with Evans directly behind him in third. Pascal Wehrlein will start fourth, with de Vries fifth, ahead of Ticktum, Vandoorne, and Mortara.
Norman Nato leads an all-Nissan row five alongside Oliver Rowland, whose last lap in the first Group was only good enough for fifth, thus not a top-four transfer spot.
Taylor Barnard is the highest-placed NEOM McLaren driver in the team's final race in 11th, ahead of Robin Frijns and Jean-Eric Vergne, with Nico Mueller 14th and Sebastien Buemi 15th.
Jake Dennis, Jake Hughes, Sam Bird, the Lola Yamaha Abts of Lucas di Grassi and Zane Maloney, and David Beckmann are next, with Antonio Felix da Costa bringing up the rear after failing to set a meaningful lap time in the first group before he pulled off with a front driveshaft failure.
UP NEXT: Race 2 starts at 12:00pm ET (CBS and Paramount+).
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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