Daniel Abt swept to his second pole position in Formula E after edging out Oliver Turvey in the final Super Pole shootout ahead of the Mexico City ePrix on Saturday.
After spending much of his time in Formula E in the shadow of title-fighting teammate Lucas di Grassi, Abt led the ABT Scheaffler Audi Sport team to its second straight pole at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez as a number of title favorites struggled.
Following his red-eye flight from the WEC Prologue at Monza, Sebastien Buemi struggled in qualifying thanks to a dirty track that caused the early runners to lose grip. Buemi qualified 10th, leaving him with a fight on his hands to battle through to his fourth straight win.
Di Grassi was another to lose out in Q1, falling to a lowly 18th, leaving teammate Abt to take the limelight as he made the most of a cleaner track in Q2 to get through to Super Pole.
After seeing NextEV NIO’s Turvey go faster in the initial heats, Abt managed to put together a rapid lap of 1:02.711 to take provisional pole. Turvey did all he could, but was powerless to stop Abt from taking pole, falling 0.156 seconds short to finish second.
Jose Maria Lopez put in an impressive display for DS Virgin Racing to qualify third, matching his best effort from Hong Kong, while Venturi’s Maro Engel finished fourth. He will drop 10 places on the grid due to a penalty. Jean-Eric Vergne rounded out the top five for Techeetah.
The Mexico City ePrix kicks off at 5pm ET on Saturday.