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Here we will be following the Formula E race weekend in Monaco from May 3rd, 2025. You can find out more about the race weekend here:
With that, I bid you farewell after this finalless qualifying here in Monaco! The field is well mixed, so it will be very exciting again at the race at 3pm! We'll also be following the race as usual with the live ticker.</p
DS Penske will be satisfied despite this. Having both cars on the second row yesterday would have been unthinkable.
A qualifying session could hardly get any stranger. Rowland starts from 1st place next to Nyck de Vries in 2nd place! Because Günther drove his cancelled time first, he is allowed to start from 3rd place on the grid ahead of Vergne!
Now both lap times have been cancelled! Oliver Rowland starts from pole position! THERE WILL BE NO FINAL!
Jean Eric Vergne wins! He clearly beats his team-mate, but both miss the chicane after the tunnel. In the end, JEV is two seconds faster!
Maximilian Günther drives ahead, but is already a tenth slower in the first sector!
Now the two DS Penske drivers are racing against each other. This duel last took place in Mexico, where Vergne won, just like in Misano last year. In London, however, Günther won!
Oliver Rowland wins! Nyck de Vries probably didn't expect Rowland to make a mistake and dawdled while driving back onto the track!
Nyck de Vries misses the approach to the hairpin and Rowland misses the first corner! Both have to turn around, but the laps still count!
Nyck de Vries will be the first of the two to start his lap and Rowland will have to follow.
The first semi-final is Oliver Rowland against Nyck de Vries. This duel has already taken place twice, most recently yesterday. Each won once.
Dan Ticktum is also under investigation for an offence during the qualifying procedure. He activated the wrong energy mode and drove with too little power.
In addition, Vergne hit the wall slightly on his lap. But apparently without damage.
Maximilian Günther wins! He beats Buemi by seven tenths and the Swiss is also stripped of a lap for track limits.
Sebastien Buemi is two tenths slower than Günther in sector 1!
After no DS Penske entered the duels yesterday, Günther now has the chance to reach the semi-finals with both cars. He has to beat Buemi to do so! Günther will drive ahead.
Jean Eric Vergne wins! His 1:48.481 is eight tenths faster than the time of his team-mate from last year.
Jean Eric Vergne is almost a second faster in sector 1! Vandoorne must have made a mistake at the end, the gap was wafer-thin beforehand.
Hopefully it will now be closer between Vandoorne and Vergne. Stoffel Vandoorne will be the first to set his time
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Dan Ticktum skids over the chicane and cancels the lap. Nyck De Vries wins by five seconds!
De Vries is one and a half seconds faster in the first sector! Very weak from Ticktum.
Dan Ticktum is now competing against Nyck de Vries! The Cupra Kiro drives up.
Oliver Rowland wins! He is one and a half seconds faster than Da Costa. What an embarrassment for the Portuguese driver.
Rowland is half a second faster in sector 1! The duel is probably decided.
Yesterday, Rowland drove against Wehrlein's Porsche in the quarter-finals and won. Da Costa was eliminated in the group stage.
The duel between Rowland and Da Costa is on! Rowland has to go first.
The quarter-finals from Group B are:
Jean Eric Vergne versus Stoffel Vandoorne - This duel between the former team-mates took place twice. Vandoorne won both times.
Sebastien Buemi against Maximilian Günther - This duel between the former team-mates has never been seen before!
For Buemi, it is the first duel of the season.
The quarter-finals continue straight away. These duels result from Group A:
Oliver Rowland against Antonio Felix da Costa - This duel took place once. Back then in Sao Paulo, Rowland won!
Nyck de Vries against Dan Ticktum - This duel has never happened before!
But you can't hear any joy on Sebastien Buemi's radio. The Swiss driver is furious because, according to him, the other drivers tried to drive so slowly in the outlap that he was unable to start the fast lap.
Pascal Wehrlein finishes fifth, Jake Dennis sixth and Nick Cassidy seventh! Yesterday's pole setter, Taylor Barnard, only finished eighth!
Sebastien Buemi is seven tenths faster than the rest! None of the top four drivers made it into the duels yesterday!
Sebastien Buemi wins! What a lap from the Swiss driver! Jean Eric Vergne, Vandoorne and Günther also progress!
Buemi and Vandoorne are the fastest in Sector 1....
Everyone makes it across the finish line in time! But it was very close for Beckmann, he literally makes it at the last second!
The track has dried out a little more in the meantime. The lap times should therefore be significantly faster. Now it's down to each individual driver!
It's green! Everyone will be able to do a lap!
Repairing the McLaren for the race will be a challenge. Not only is the front suspension broken and the front end destroyed, but the rear suspension was also destroyed on first contact with the wall on the left.
Sam Bird is now sitting with his team in the pit lane. He is fine, but visibly disappointed.
There are still repairs to the barrier in turn 1.
On the clock there are only 2 minutes and 46 seconds left. That's only enough for one fast lap!
The team radio between Cassidy and his team remains heated in the pit lane. Jaguar wants to fit new tyres, Cassidy says: "If it goes green and you don't have the tyres on the car, we look like idiots! We won't do that."
Just before the red flag, however, Nick Cassidy was displeased on the radio. Although he was fourth, he was two seconds slower than the leaders. He complains: "That's not just track development. I don't make up two seconds in one lap! I was only able to improve by a tenth on the last one!
At the moment, Stoffel Vandoorne, Jean Eric Vergne, Maximilian Günther and Nick Cassidy are still in the race.
Sam Bird hit the wall to the left of the entrance to the first corner. The resulting suspension damage made him nothing more than a passenger.
Sam Bird got out of the car, he seems to be fine. The impact was very fast, the McLaren barely decelerated before the corner.
Sam Bird is in the first corner. The McLaren is destroyed at the front. That doesn't bring back good memories. Last year, he broke his hand in the same place.
Red flag! The session is interrupted. Sam Bird has crashed!
Jean Eric Vergne is really fast! He beats Buemi by three and a half seconds and is faster than the best time from Group A!
At the moment, Sebastien Buemi is leading with a 1:58.385, which is 30 seconds slower than a fast dry time.
The first lap times are slowly trickling in. The drivers are faster than the drivers in Group A at the start of their group phase.
Nick Cassidy has not yet taken part in any duel phase this season. Things went well for him in training. He will do everything in his power to end this inglorious streak.
Sebastien Buemi is told on the radio not to take any risks. Only the very last laps will be decisive, says his team.
Group B can take to the track! The rain has stopped, the conditions will improve, but the track will remain wet.
Now comes Group B! Pascal Wehrlein, Taylor Barnard, Jake Dennis, Maximilian Günther, Jean Eric Vergne, Nico Müller, Stoffel Vandoorne, Sam Bird, Nick Cassidy, Sebastien Buemi and David Beckmann will line up.
While De Vries won, his team-mate came a bitter last, also standing in Ticktum's way on his final lap. Mitch Evans was also eliminated. Jaguar's turnaround from training has not yet borne fruit.
Nyck de Vries wins! The Dutchman qualifies together with Da Costa, Rowland and Ticktum!
The session is over! The last laps count!
Dan Ticktum now leads ahead of Rowland, Da Costa and Hughes!
Nothing has been decided yet. De Vries and Evans are both very fast. But everyone else is improving too.
Oliver Rowland completes a lap! He is one second faster than the competition! But the laps are getting significantly faster by the second. There are still two minutes to go.
Nyck de Vries is currently in the lead. He is the only one faster than two minutes.
Rowland slides over the chicane, his lap time is cancelled, it would have been enough for the current lead.
What a slide! Mitch Evans' onboard looks like an egg race. The car has no grip whatsoever and starts to turn sideways every time the steering is turned. Getting to sector 3 at all costs the drivers just as much time as a dry whole lap.
The rain in Monaco is very critical for several reasons. On the one hand, the track is narrow and the tarmac is slippery, as it is resurfaced every year. There is also the tunnel in sector 2, which remains completely dry inside.
The track is completely wet and the spray is spraying up from the cars. It will be a challenge to generate the necessary temperature.
Qualifying is open!
His direct rivals are Antonio Felix da Costa, Nyck de Vries, Edoardo Mortara, Jake Hughes, Mitch Evans, Lucas di Grassi, Dan Ticktum, Norman Nato, Robin Frijns and Zane Maloney.
Group A will take to the track in just three minutes. Oliver Rowland, yesterday's race winner, will also line up in that group.
We will definitely experience a wet session. Depending on whether the rain stops, Group A will have bigger problems. Get an overview of the distribution of the drivers!
It's raining in Monaco! The treacherous street circuit is wet! This could throw everything into disarray, nobody has been able to prepare for rain yet.
Welcome back to the live ticker! In less than 15 minutes, qualifying will begin on the historic streets of Monaco.
