Dennis' Turn 3 lock-up set the Briton off-line for the following hairpin, and he locked up for a second time to deliver a terminal blow to his chances of kicking off 2022-23 with a pole position.
This meant that di Grassi could back off and simply cross the line to bag pole position, while Dennis was upset having had to contest the final with a broken front wing - caused by contact with a bollard in the stadium section during his quarter-final with Pascal Wehrlein, which wiped out his right front wing endplate.
