MotoE 2023: the riders of the MotoE World Championship arrive at the San Marino GP, the last round of the season. Who will be the 2023 World Champion? Mattia Casadei arrives at the decisive round with a 21-point lead over Torres and 22 over Ferrari.
The MotoE is ready to take on the Misano circuit, the last round of the 2023 season of the MotoGP electric class, and find out who will be the 2023 World Champion.
Barcelona hosted some serious drama in the 2023 FIM Enel MotoE World Championship. Going in, Jordi Torres (Openbank Aspar Team) held a 15-point lead and just two races later it’s Mattia Casadei (HP Pons Los40) heading into the decider at Misano with 21 points in hand. A last lap touch and then a crash on his home turf makes it a mountain to climb for Torres to lift the crown, and now we’re heading onto home turf for Casadei and Matteo Ferrari (Felo Gresini MotoE).
Torres remains Casadei’s closest challenger for the crown with that 21-point deficit, but he’s not on home turf. Still, he’s had some pace at Misano and now it’s all or nothing too – something that could unlock that extra magic if Torres can walk the tightrope of risk and reward. If track records count in this new era though, the rider to watch may well be Ferrari.
22 points back is a fairly sizeable margin, but anything can still happen. And Ferrari earned his moniker the King of Misano by winning, winning, and winning again at the Adriatic venue. It’s where he stamped some authority on the 2019 Cup by doing the double, and he’s added four more victories at Misano since then for a whopping total of six. No other MotoE™ rider has a similar record at any other track.
The last rider who has a chance of victory, at least mathematically, is Hector Garzo (Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE). He’s 44 points back so he needs to make some big strides in Race 1 to stay in contention even before the final race of the year gets underway.
Rivals aside though, Casadei’s form of late is just about the worst-case scenario for his competitors. He’s 0,044 seconds away from having taken five wins in a row, only losing out by that margin in Race 1 in Barcelona. And that was to Andrea Mantovani (RNF MotoE Team) – fast and surely a podium threat again at Misano, but not a threat for the crown. Casadei also has a win and a series of podiums at Misano. After scoring 120 points out of 125 in the last five races and recovered the 56-point deficit he was at mid-season, can anyone really beat Casadei for the MotoE championship title?
Luca Salvadori should have returned for the final round at Misano; the Prettl Pramac team rider MotoE however, he was declared unfit by the doctors and will thus miss the San Marino GP.
In its place on the Ducati V21L of the Pramac team will be raced by Andrea Migno.
Here you can find out the MotoE World Championship and who will win the title of the electric class of the MotoGP 2023!
MotoE World Championship
The TV and streaming schedule of the San Marino GP
Numbers and stats of MotoE 2023 on the eve of the San Marino GP at Misano
With his last four victories in five races, Casadei brings his total MotoE career wins to six and now stands behind Granado, the most victorious driver in MotoE with 11 successes, and of Ferrari, with ten victories.
Among the riders participating in the 2023 season, none have achieved a similar number of victories to Granado and Ferrari; Torres, winner of two editions of MotoE, has won only four races so far. Among the riders who have participated in the past MotoE seasons, among the most victorious is Dominique Aegerter, with five successes, one less than Casadei.
So far, seven riders have won a race in 2023: Casadei (4), Ferrari (3), Torres (2), Mantovani (2) and Granado, Krummenacher and Garzò with one victory each.
Regarding podiums, ten riders, more than half of the MotoE grid, have reached the podium in at least one race: Casadei (8), Ferrari (7), Torres (6), Krummenacher (4), Granado (4), Garzò (4), Mantovani (3), Manfredi (2), Zannoni (2), and Spinelli (2).
In 2023, the HP Pons Los40 team achieved 10 podiums, two more than the Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE team while the Felo Gresini MotoE team achieved seven podium finishes, one more than the Openbank Aspar team. Behind them, the LCR E-Team and Ongetta Sic58 Squadra Corse won 4 each, while the RNF team MotoE is at three. Tech3 E-Racing and Prettl Pramac Racing are at zero and have only two races to get their first podium of the season. The team with the most points is Dynavolt Intact GP MotoE (329) ahead of HP Pons Los40 (328) while Felo Gresini MotoE and LCR E-Team are tied for third place (227).
MotoE World Championship
The standings of the 2023 championship
The performance of the MotoE 2023
In the first two rounds of 2023, at Le Mans and Mugello, the V21L beat the previous lap record by more than three seconds. A new track record was also set at the Sachsenring. Furthermore, in both races of the French GP, all the participants were faster than the previous lap record of the MotoE. Also in the Dutch GP at Assen, the new one MotoE was faster than the previous track record, this time by 2.5 seconds.
Already at the beginning of the season, in the first test of 2023, in March, Granado had been half a second faster than the official record of the MotoE in Jerez. A month later, in the second test, Granado was again the fastest, lowering the official MotoE lap record in Barcelona by three seconds.
At Mugello, the MotoE set its new top-speed record: at the end of the main straight, Jordi Torres reached the speed of 281,9 km/h.
Here is some information on the Ducati V21L: the acceleration data were recorded during a start while the braking data are those recorded at the end of the main straight in Barcelona (turn 1).
Photos: motogp.com
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