The FIM Enel MotoE™ World Championship has returned one last throw of the dice Gran Premio Red Bull di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini as the title fight goes down to the wire. It was a dramatic qualifying, with Mattia Casadei (LCR E-Team) storming to an incredible pole position, taking the maximum advantage from Friday. Casadei set a 1:39.856 to leap to P1 ahead of teammate Eric Granado (LCR E-Team) in second. The #51 was a mere 0.067s behind and placed ahead of Jordi Torres (Openbank Aspar Team), who after a strong final flying lap, stole third.
However, there was another twist in the Championship, with Hector Garzo (Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE™) forced to fight through Q1 before qualifying in P8. Garzo will start behind his title rivals, with Casadei starting on pole and Kevin Zannoni (Openbank Aspar Team) and Oscar Gutierrez (Axxis-MSI) qualifying in fifth and sixth on the grid.
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The Championship remains for grabs with Garzo entering the weekend with a 38-point advantage - with just 50 points up for grabs. Garzo can wrap up the title if Casadei does not close Garzo's advantage to less than 25 points. If Casadei was to take victory in Race 1, Garzo has to finish in fourth place or above to wrap up the title ahead of Race 2. Meanwhile, Zannoni and Gutierrez will need some luck on Saturday, sitting 44 and 49 points behind – starting from the second row.
Next up, the final two races of the year await, with lights out for Race 1 on Saturday at 12:15 local time (UTC +2) before Race 2 at 16:10 local time, so make sure you keep up to date with all the action on motogp.com!
Top 10:
| 1 | Mattia Casadei (LCR E-Team) | |
| 2 | Eric Granado (LCR E-Team) | +0.067 |
| 3 | Jordi Torres (Openbank Aspar Team) | +0.098 |
| 4 | Alessandro Zaccone (Tech3 E-Racing) | +0.111 |
| 5 | Kevin Zannoni (Openbank Aspar Team) | +0.163 |
| 6 | Oscar Gutierrez (Axxis-MSI) | +0.174 |
| 7 | Nicholas Spinelli (Tech3 E-Racing) | +0.262 |
| 8 | Hector Garzo (Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE™) | +0.307 |
| 9 | Lukas Tulovic (Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE™) | +0.336 |
| 10 | Matteo Ferrari (Felo Gresini MotoE™) | +0.740 |