Robin Frijns was the strongest driver in Q1 of the first classification of the New York ePrix after signing a time of 1: 10,063. The Virgin driver was one tenth ahead of António Félix Da Costa, although the performance of both was not of much use. Even with a Q2 that had to be interrupted by the touch of Sam Bird and Oliver Rowland, the three best drivers of the second session surpassed Frijns and Da Costa. It was like this Jean-Eric Vergne in front of the timesheets ahead of Pascal Wehrlein and Oliver Rowland himself, although the Nissan driver was left with a pending investigation.
Jean-Eric Vergné resisted as leader after Q3, although Nick Cassidy, Maximilian Günther, Alex Lynn and Lucas Di Grassi eliminated from the ‘top 6’ any pilot in Q1. However, the Frenchman could not be the fastest rider in the group stage, since Sébastien Buemi with a time of 1: 09.531 finished in front after dominating Q4. The Swiss was the exception, as no other rider from the last round managed to even be in the top ten overall. Thus, Buemi led the way to the superpole followed by Jean-Eric Vergne, Pascal Wehrlein and the three best drivers in Q3.
The decisive superpole turned into a duel to three between Jean-Eric Vergne, Nick Cassidy and Sébastien Buemi. However, the Swiss driver did not meet expectations after setting the fastest time in the group stage and made a couple of mistakes on his lap. Two judgments that valued the work previously done by their rivals and that allowed Nick Cassidy to sign pole with a final time of 1: 09.338. Just over a tenth behind the New Zealand rider was Jean-Eric Vergne, while Sébastien Buemi had to settle for fifth place.
Alex Lynn benefited from Buemi’s failure to place third after beating Max Günther by 76 thousandths. Relegated to fifth place, Sébastien Buemi will share the third row of the grid with Pascal Wehrlein. Off the superpole, the Brazilian Lucas Di Grassi has taken the seventh place, while Oliver Rowland has been eighth. With everything, the possible sanction to the Nissan driver draws the option of winning an extra position to Alexander Sims after finishing ninth. For his part, André Lotterer was tenth with the second car of the TAG Heuer team Porsche