Envision’s Nick Cassidy won qualifying ahead of Saturday’s Formula E dual event in New York this weekend.
The American round of the championship will take place on a 2.32 km long urban track, constructed in the Brooklyn docklands. Its distinguishing feature, as the organizers always emphasized, is an excellent view of Manhattan, as the famous skyscraper district is on the other side of the East River.
Seven teams reached the quarter-finals of the qualification: in addition to Cassidy, these were his partner Robin Friens, Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche), Sam Bird (Jaguar), Stoffel Vandorn (Mercedes), Alex Sims (Mahindra), Sebastien Buemi (Nissan) and Lucas di Grassi (Venturi).
Cassidy, Wehrlein, Vandorn and Di Grassi advanced to the semi-finals, while Vandorn became the New Zealander’s rival in the pole game.
However, Nick emerged victorious and had already won pole at the New York circuit a year ago and now repeated the feat, just 0.008 seconds ahead of the Belgian driver of the works Mercedes team.
If he can run the race as confidently as qualifying, it will improve his standings significantly, as so far Cassidy is only 13th in the individual standings and has no podium to his name yet.
Last year, when he started from pole in New York, he failed to convert that lead into a podium finish, but the following day, in Sunday’s weekend race, Cassidy finished second.
Source: F1 News
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