and Johnny Rever also improving there as well in the Citroen. Dennis now on the bubble here as well. I don't think Ga's going to trouble him.
No, he doesn't. Stays eighth fastest. So Oliver Olan, the reigning world champion, is out of qualifying in the group stages here in South Paulo.
Let's get confirmation though of those results from group A qualifying here for the Google Cloud Sa Paulo E pre. D Costa, Vern, Mortara, and Jake Dennis are your top four that progress forwards from group A into the jewels. Now, Taylor Barnard next up in the DS Pensky.
New team for him also in the season 12 calendar. Across the line, the wall on the outside. So, Barard will come across the line.
Doesn't improve. Well, he improves in time but goes up to seventh quickest but clip the wall on the exit of the final corner there. So confirmation of the group B classification there.
Norman quickest of the lot. He goes through and into the jewels and will be joined by Pascal Verline. Nick Defit and Dan Tictum also in there as well.
Got Edo Mortar versus Jean Vern Mahindra versus Citroen. Kev has left a little bit of time on the uh table here about half a second or so away as you say and you can see that and hear the tires chirping away there as he's trying to get the car stopped at turn 10. You can see how confident Eduardo Mutara is with his car in comparison to Jeff there especially going through turn 10.
So Mortara then goes through from the first of the quarterfinal jewels here in Sao Paulo. Quarterfinal two though. Jake Dennis in the Andretti versus Antonio Fitz Dosta.
He's Costa going to be out of qualifying in the group stages in the jewels rather. He is. And he comes across the line a tenth of a second slower than Jake Dennis when all said and done.
Quarterfinal three. Then Nick Defahindra versus Pascal Verline in the Porsche. This is a big lap from Pascal Verline.
Well, just to give you an idea of the time we saw from pole last year. It was a 109 851. We could be seeing the better of that here only in the quarterfinal.
Jules to freeze a 1102 across the line. But what about Verline? He comes across and absolutely obliterates that.
A 10982. So not the quickest time that we've seen around this Sa Paulo circuit. Quarterfinal four though.
Dan Tictum versus Norman Nat. Here is Dan Tictum. Will he be enough to outqualify Norman Nat who's dropped even more time in the second sector?
Tictum across the line. A 110. 1.
That's not the quickest time that we've seen so far in the dual stages, but it's quicker than Norman Nat. And he's losing more time still in this third and final sector is the French when he comes out of the final turn, comes across the timing line and eventually ends up 3/10en of a second away from the Britain. Coupiro and Dan Tictton qualify into the semifinals here in Sa Paulo.
Well, a reminder of how we got here then. This is your lineup for the semi-finals. In quarterfinal one, we have Mortara versus Vern, Dennis versus D Costa, Defreeze versus Verline, Tictum versus Nat.
Yeah, really good here for Edward Mortara. More of the same for the last couple of corners for the Swiss driver. Out of the final turn of 11 and across the line we go.
Neat and tidy for him. a 11068. But Dennis has picked up time in the second sector.
All eyes now on the season 9 world champion. We come down and through to turn 10. Can he get it all hooked up nicely.
This is going to be very close here between Mortara and Dennis. Just over a hundredth of a second in it between these two drivers. Across the line we go.
Dennis versus Mortara. And Dennis does it by three 100s of a second. He outqualifies Eduardo Mortara.
Semi-final two then. Dan Tictum versus Pascal Verline. Tictton's catching in this final sector.
Out of turn 11 we go. And across the timing line for the British driver. It's a 1098.
So he matches and even betters the time set by Verline in the quarterfinals. But is Verlin about to better his own time? And now qualify Dan Dictton.
Across the line we go. And he does it by 700s of a second. Verline is through and into the finals for the first time in season 12.
Some breaking news to bring you here from the commentary box. We said about the wheel spinning pit lane and it being prohibited as a result of a regulations change. Pascal Verline has been given a threepace grid penalty for wheel spinning in the pit lane then.
Unbelievable. I I I don't know what that Jake Dennis is on pole position. Pascal Verline going headto-head against one another.
It was sector two and three where Jake was really strong in in both the quarters and the semi-finals. Fur line increasing that advantage still in the third second sector. Out of the final quarter we go for Jake Dennis across the line.
It's a 110. 1. So he did lose time in that first sector and that cost him throughout the remainder of the lap.
Pascal Verline nearly 3/10 of a second in his back pocket as he comes out of the final corner and will be across the timing line to be the quickest man in the dual finals to what would have been pole position. But he will now start at best of fourth place. However, he does bag those allimportant three points and of course the Julius Bayer pole position trophy there as well.
But Pascal Verline then well damage limitation exactly what he needed to do there in the circumstances and of course he now gets three points off the board there as well.
