Dan Ticktum Takes Formula E Pole in Monaco

Dan Ticktum took pole position in formula e qualifying in Monaco and did it by over a tenth of a second. The CUPRA KIRO driver beat Nyck de Vries in the final duel, then nearly clipped the barriers coming out of the casino on the lap that sealed his second Julius Baer Pole Position.

Ticktum and de Vries in Monaco

The final came down to Ticktum against de Vries, with the Mahindra Racing driver reaching the last duel after Antonio Felix da Costa made a rare mistake at Mirabeau. Ticktum had already taken care of Pascal Wehrlein in the quarter-finals, while de Vries advanced after beating Mitch Evans.

That duel mattered because Monaco qualifying sets the grid for Round 9 on a circuit where a clean lap is hard to find and even harder to repeat. Ticktum’s margin was enough to put him ahead of the established names around him and give him his second Julius Baer Pole Position in Formula E.

Wehrlein, Guenther, and the cut line

Wehrlein led the session at one stage with a lap of 1m28.832s and reached the Duels, while Maximilian Guenther beat Nico Müller in their first meeting in the head-to-heads. Ticktum edged Guenther in the first semi-final before moving on to the final.

The rest of the order carried its own pressure. Jean-Eric Vergne finished fifth, Oliver Rowland went out in sixth, Sebastien Buemi ended eighth, and Nick Cassidy was knocked out in ninth. Edoardo Mortara never left the garage after a mechanical issue and did not set a lap time.

Round 9 Grid Set

For Ticktum, the result locks in the front of the grid for Monaco’s Round 9 and gives him a clear opening against the field on one of the season’s most difficult qualifying tracks. He has now turned a place he has long liked into the kind of result that can reshape a weekend before the race even starts.