Ticktum makes it back-to-back Monaco E-Prix poles

Dan Ticktum made it back-to-back pole positions at the Monaco E-Prix, beating Antonio Felix da Costa to pole with the largest margin of the season.

The Final Duel came after the two came together in the closing laps of Saturday's race costing both a shot at a podium finish. Jaguar TCS Racing driver da Costa retired while Ticktum was handed a penalty for the incident.

Cupra Kiro’s Ticktum topped the opening Group session ahead of Mahindra’s Edoardo Mortara, Jaguar’s Mitch Evans, and Andretti’s Felipe Drugovich, then saw off Drugovich in his first Duel after making up time in the final sector.

In his Semifinal, Mortara – making his sixth Semifinal appearance this season, the most of any driver – set the fastest time of the weekend so far with a 1m26.414s but Ticktum went quicker still by 0.197s.

In the Final it was Ticktum domination. He was a quarter of a second up in the first sector, after da Costa slid in Saint Devote, and increased his margin to 0.476s in the second, before crossing the line with a 1m26.222s, 0.676s quicker than da Costa.

da Costa's route to the Final started with fourth in the second Group behind DS Penske’s Taylor Barnard, reigning champion Oliver Rowland of Nissan, and Citroen’s Jean-Eric Vergne. He then narrowly defeated Barnard by 0.001s in his first Duel before beating Vergne in another close affair in the Semifinals, the gap that time being 0.015s.

After failing to qualify on Saturday, Mortara will start Sunday's race from third, alongside Vergne with Drugovich and Barnard in fifth and sixth.

Championship leader Evans and Rowland will start seventh and eighth as the last of the drivers to make it to the Duels. Norman Nato will start ninth for Nissan after missing out on the Duels by just 0.015s in the first Group with Kiro’s Pepe Marti 10th after getting knocked out of the Duels late on by Vergne.

Porsche’s Nico Mueller was another to narrowly miss out on the head-to-heads from Group A, his deficit being 0.069s; he will start 11th alongside DS Penske’s Maximilian Guenther, who had a lap time that would’ve been good enough deleted due to a track limits violation at the Swimming Pool chicane.

Jake Dennis will start 13th, the Andretti driver’s last Group stage lap not being enough to move him up the order. Pascal Wehrlein will start 14th after struggling with the balance of his Porsche in the Groups.

Saturday race winner Nyck de Vries will start a lowly 15th for Mahindra, ahead of the Envision Racing drivers Joel Eriksson and Sebastien Buemi, with Citroen’s Nick Cassidy and the Lola Yamaha Abts of Lucas di Grassi and Zane Maloney completing the grid.

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