BMW i Andretti Motorsport driver Alexander Sims claimed his third consecutive pole at Formula E for Saturday's Diriyah E-Prix in Riyadh, becoming the only driver in Formula E to score three consecutive poles.
The British driver set the fastest time of 1:11.467s to take his second pole position of the season after a slide at Turn 17 on the pole lap.
Nissan driver Sebastien Buemi will line up second on the grid, two-tenths off the pace of leading BMW while Audi's Lucas Di Grassi will start on front of the third row, alongside Mitch Evans.
Starting in fifth position will be Mahindra Racing's Jerome D'Ambrosio ahead of Antonio Felix da Costa who lost control of his car to end up in 6th place.
The Portuguese driver was quickest going into Superpole after leading group qualifying but ran wide, losing well over 2 seconds. He will line up in sixth place, ahead of Envision Virgin Racing's Sam Bird.
The Englishman was in contention for super pole but got pipped by his rivals right at the end of group qualifying.
Edoardo Mortara will line up 8th today in the Mercedes-powered Venturi car while Sims's teammate Maximilian Guenther will take start in the race from 9th.
Andre Lotterer completed top 10 for Porsche Formula E team ahead of his former teammate Jean-Eric Vergne, who came from a battery change in practice to come 11th.
Mercedes had a difficult qualifying session after scoring a podium in yesterday's race, as Stoffel Vandoorne could only manage 12th while Formula 2 champion Nyck de Vries will start in last place, well over 2 seconds off Sims's time.
Lotterer's teammate Neel Jani meanwhile, had another fruitless session of the weekend, as the Swiss driver handled Porsche to only 19th place, 1.3s shy of the pole time.
Update: Both Vergne and Evans are penalised following qualifying. Vergne's car required battery change and will receive 20 place grid penalty as well as 10-seconds stop go penalty during the race while Evans will drop from 4th to 6th following minimum weight regulation breach. Evans got a reprimand that promotes D'Ambrosio and Da Costa by a place.
The final race of the weekend at Diriyah will start at 03:04 pm local time.
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