It will be Mattia Casadei who will start from pole position tomorrow at Misano in the last two MotoE races. The Italian and his teammate Eric Granado made perfect use of qualifying, giving the first two positions on the grid to the LCR team. Along with them, in first will be Jordi Torres, less than a tenth behind the poleman.
Q2 was very intense with minimal gaps: the riders in the first 3 rows are packed in just over 3 tenths. Opening the second was Alessandro Zaccone, who got the better of Kavin Zannoni and Oscar Gutierrez. Seventh place for Nicholas Spinelli, which brings to 4 the representation of Italian riders in the top 7 places.
On the other hand, it was not an easy Saturday for the leader of the standings: Hector Garzo had to go through Q1 and did not go beyond the 8th time in Q2, his worst qualifying performance of the year. However, the Spaniard has a golden opportunity to graduate as champion already in Race 1: with 38 points ahead of Casadei, 44 ahead of Zannoni and 49 ahead of Gutierrez, Garzo will only need a 4th place (regardless of the position of his opponents) to close the games.
Continuing with the lineup, there is a poker of Italians from 10th to 13th place with, in order, Matteo Ferrari, Massimo Roccoli, Andrea Mantovani and Kevin Manfredi. Fifteenth box for Alessio Finello, while Armando Pontone will close the lineup.
Race 1 is scheduled at 12:25 p.m., while Race 2 will start at 4:10 p.m.
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