Monaco E-Prix: Rowland fastest, Vergne on pole

Nissan e.dams driver Rowland, who came through the third segment of group qualifying, set the best time in Super Pole with a 50.021s – 0.174s slower than the lap he set to top FP2.

But as he has a three-place grid penalty for hitting Alexander Sims during the wet race conditions last time out in Paris, Rowland loses pole and will start fourth.

Vergne was quickest in the first sector on his Super Pole lap, before losing fractions in the second and third segments to wind up 0.021s adrift of Rowland’s best.

Mitch Evans took third place but is under investigation for a possible Super Pole procedure infraction, which is believed to be activating his 250kW power mode too early.

Pascal Wehrlein ended up fourth for Mahindra Racing but will be promoted ahead of Rowland, with Venturi’s Felipe Massa starting fifth.

Sebastien Buemi, who won both of FE’s previous races in Monaco, finished sixth in Super Pole after losing time in the opening sector.

Sims ran early in group three, slotting into third in the group standings, which were topped by Vergne, before he was shuffled back to seventh, missing out on Super Pole by 0.104s.

Alex Lynn was the highest group four runner as he took eighth for Jaguar, one spot ahead of BMW's Antonio Felix da Costa, who was the highest group one runner. Jose Maria Lopez (Dragon) rounded out the top 10 from group four.

Stoffel Vandoorne took 11th for HWA, with championship leader Robin Frijns (Envision Virgin) heading his fellow group one runner Lucas di Grassi (Audi) in 12th and 13th.

Maximillian Gunther was 14th for Dragon, but he will drop to the rear of the field after getting a 10-place penalty for picking up a third reprimand of the season for speeding during the full course yellow test in FP1.

Andre Lotterer ended up 22nd and last on the timesheets for DS Techeetah. He was the first driver to complete a lap in group one, but a lock up at the second part of the Swimming Pool complex and what looked like a brush with the barrier at the last corner cost him time.

Jerome d'Ambrosio (Mahindra) and Edoardo Mortara (Venturi) both move down three places because of penalties from Paris, and will start 18th and 20th respectively.

Starting grid:

Cla	#	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	25	Jean-Eric Vergne	Techeetah	50.042
2	20	Mitch Evans	Jaguar Racing	50.112	0.070
3	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mahindra Racing	50.128	0.086
4	22	Oliver Rowland	Nissan e.dams	50.021
5	19	Felipe Massa	Venturi	50.218	0.176
6	23	Sébastien Buemi	Nissan e.dams	50.234	0.192
7	27	Alexander Sims	Andretti Autosport	50.351	0.309
8	3	Alex Lynn	Jaguar Racing	50.370	0.328
9	28	Antonio Felix da Costa	Andretti Autosport	50.375	0.333
10	7	Jose Maria Lopez	Dragon Racing	50.432	0.390
11	5	Stoffel Vandoorne	HWA AG	50.451	0.409
12	4	Robin Frijns	Virgin Racing	50.498	0.456
13	11	Lucas di Grassi	Team Abt	50.502	0.460
14	2	Sam Bird	Virgin Racing	50.526	0.484
15	16	Oliver Turvey	NIO Formula E Team	50.578	0.536
16	66	Daniel Abt	Team Abt	50.602	0.560
17	17	Gary Paffett	HWA AG	50.664	0.622
18	64	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Mahindra Racing	50.601	0.559
19	8	Tom Dillmann	NIO Formula E Team	50.811	0.769
20	48	Edoardo Mortara	Venturi	50.618	0.576
21	36	Andre Lotterer	Techeetah	51.018	0.976
22	6	Maximilian Gunther	Dragon Racing	50.514	0.472
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