Casadei gave Pons Racing its last world title

The Italian Mattia Casadei (Pons Racing 40) was declared the champion of the Electric Motorcycle World (MotoE) after his victory in the penultimate race of the season this Saturday at the San Marino Grand Prix. With an advantage of 37 points in the drivers’ standings, Casadei was unable to catch up with what had been a great rival and leader for most of the campaign, the Catalan. Jordi Torres is only the tenth. Héctor Garzó (Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE) and Nicholas Spinelli (Pons Racing 40) completed the podium in Race 1.

On the other hand, for second place, everything is at stake in Race 2 at the end of the day in Misano: behind the Italian, only three points separate his compatriot Matteo Ferrari, champion in 2019, from the Spaniard Jordi Torres, who were crowned in 2020 and in 2021.

Casadei replaced the Swiss Dominique Aegerter who won the title of what is still called the MotoE World Cup, which this season has officially become the world championship. The Italian brings Pons Racing, which closes the shutter at the end of the current campaign, the last world title.

Jordi Torres (Openbank Aspar Team), who lost the lead due to a crash last week at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit, managed to get ahead of Mattia Casadei and Nicholas Spinelli, who started fifth on the grid. The three men extended their advantage from the start, but in the second round, the Championship experienced a new twist in the script, as it was seen Jordi Torres He started early and had to complete a double ‘long lap, dropping to 12th place and almost surrendering the title since he entered Misano 21 points behind Casadei.

Mattia Casadei, Héctor Garzó and Nicholas Spinelli remained in the lead and Kevin Zannoni and Kevin Manfredi had two laps to go. Casadei started the last lap in the lead with half a second ahead, but Héctor Garzó came back and tried a maneuver in the last corner but it was unsuccessful and he lost the victory by just 21 thousandths. Nicholas Spinelli completed the podium.