Having been unbeaten over a single lap all weekend, Gunther once more emerged because the quickest driver of all in Sunday’s qualifying as he set a stellar lap of 1m07.753s to defeat Dennis by over half a second within the finals.
Gunther was faster than Dennis from the get-go of their duel, instantly establishing a 0.134s benefit earlier than steadily constructing that hole over the rest of the lap.
By the center sector, Gunther’s time was already 0.479s up on Dennis, and he ultimately claimed his second pole of the Jakarta weekend – and his FE profession – by an astonishing 0.523s.
The German driver had earlier topped the Group B session to progress into the duels stage, the place he upped his tempo even additional to grew to become the primary driver to interrupt the 1m08s barrier this weekend.
That allowed him a straightforward passage over DS Penske’s Stoffel Vandoorne into the semis, the place he obtained the higher of team-mate Edoardo Mortara by 0.134s to place himself within the finals.
In the meantime, Dennis made it to the finals after claiming a slender 0.001s victory over Jaguar’s Mitch Evans within the semis. The British driver had fallen as a lot as 0.138s behind Evans within the center a part of the observe, however he turned the deficit round with an unimaginable closing sector to safe a spot on the entrance row.
Dennis was beforehand the quickest driver in Group A and he additionally breezed by means of quarter finals, outpacing McLaren’s Jake Hughes by effectively over six tenths in what was essentially the most one-sided duel of the day.
Evans will begin the race from third on the grid behind polesitter Gunther and Dennis, placing him in a robust place to bounce again from his DNF on Saturday that left him 34 factors off the championship lead.
Mortara will line up fourth within the second of the 2 Maserati automobiles, with Vandoorne set to begin fifth within the DS Penske.
Saturday winner and Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein will take the beginning from sixth place, having misplaced out to Mortara of their semi-final contest, whereas Nissan’s Sacha Fenestraz and McLaren’s Jake Hughes will share the fourth row of the grid.
DS Penske’s Jean-Eric Vergne, who missed out on a spot within the duels by simply 0.001s to his team-mate Vandoorne, will likely be subsequent up on the grid in ninth.
Vergne will likely be joined on the fifth row of the grid by championship chief Nick Cassidy (Envision), who was once more eradicated within the group phases and can hav to begin 4 locations behind his title rival Wehrlein.
Porsche’s Antonio Felix da Costa locked up on his closing lap in Group B, leaving him eleventh on the grid for the second race of the weekend.
Jaguar driver Sam Chicken struggled much more in qualifying to finish up 14th, behind Nissan’s Norman Nato and the second Envision automotive of Sebastien Buemi.
