FE | Berlin 2: Dennis surprises and returns to pole by beating Cassidy

Formula E is probably among the most unpredictable categories in the motorsport landscape, where everything can change in the space of just twenty-four hours. This was also the case in Germany this weekend, because the second qualifying session provided a big surprise, namely the pole position of Jake Dennis.

There is talk of surprise not so much because the Briton is new to certain performances on the flying lap, but because yesterday, in the first qualifying tests of the weekend, he had finished in the very last rows, but without having a clear idea of ​​the reason for this performance. Furthermore, his teammate, Norman Nato, had also suffered the same fate, demonstrating that the difficulties were linked to the way in which the American team had prepared qualifying, more specifically, probably something related to the tyres.

Today the situation was reversed, as Andretti was able to not only put Jake Dennis on pole position, but also Nato on the second row, demonstrating excellent potential after making changes based on the experience of Saturday’s qualifying .

Dennis beat the current championship leader Nick Cassidy in the final with an advantage of around two tenths at the finish line, built mainly in the central sector due to an error by the Jaguar driver in turn nine, where he ended up slightly wide losing several cents.

In the second row there will be, precisely, the other Andretti of Nato, which will be joined by the second Jaguar of Mitch Evans. Both semi-finals, in fact, were an internal duel: the two Andrettis clashed in the first heat, while the two Jaguars clashed in the following heat. Evans paid for a small mistake in turn 6/7 in the comparison with his teammate, while Nato lost the clash with Dennis by just 22 thousandths.

The third row of the grid will instead be made up of an excellent Stoffel Vandoorne, who confirms himself in good shape after the good performance in qualifying on Saturday, and Max Gunther, who manages to bring his Maserati to the duels once again. In Saturday’s race the German then suffered an accident despite himself which put him out of action: the objective for today’s race is to redeem yesterday’s ePrix and achieve a good result in a race that promises to be chaotic.

Behind them will be Pascal Wehrlein, who continues his streak of top 8 in qualifying, and Edoardo Mortara. After the pole obtained yesterday, the Swiss continues to show excellent form, once again bringing his Mahindra to the top of the standings.

Pascal Wehrlein, Porsche, Porsche 99X Electric Gen3

Photo by: Andrew Ferraro / Motorsport Images

It will be an uphill race for Jean-Eric Vergne from ninth place, but be careful not to underestimate the Frenchman, because Saturday’s race demonstrated that, even more than pure performance, strategy can make a big difference in Berlin, thus allowing to the transalpine driver to recover and get back into the fight for the podium. Alongside him on the grid there will be the other Porsche, that of Antonio Felix da Costa, with the Portuguese preceding Joel Eriksson, author of a good performance on his second day as “substitute” for the official Envision drivers.

Sixth row for Lucas di Grassi with the Abt Cupra, whose ambition is to get back into the points, which was missed yesterday only due to a collision suffered by Dan Ticktum while he was in seventh place.

Of note is the subpar performance of the two Nissans, with Oliver Rowland, currently third in the world championship, only sixteenth on the starting grid, while Sacha Fenestraz will start immediately behind his teammate. However, Rowland himself yesterday demonstrated how it is possible to recover even from the back rows, despite today’s race having two laps less.

Dan Ticktum will close the group and will suffer a 40 position relegation on the grid, converted into a 10 second penalty for stop/go du