Alessandro Zaccone’s impressive qualifying form continues. This Friday, the rider secured pole position for the MotoE German GP, marking his third consecutive pole after Mugello and Assen.
In the first qualifying session, ten riders competed for the last two spots in Q2, aiming to join the eight who had directly qualified through the combined classification of the two practice sessions.
Right from his first flying lap, Nicholas Spinelli (Tech3 E-Racing) set a time that remained unbeaten, which at the time was a MotoE lap record at Sachsenring. Kevin Zannoni (Openbank Aspar) improved just at the end to take second place, 0.320s behind the leader. This bumped Alessio Finello (Felo Gresini) out of Q2 by 0.238s.
Q2 was even more thrilling. After the first flying laps, the leader was Eric Granado (LCR E-Team), who was then beaten by Spinelli. The Italian then lost the lead to Óscar Gutiérrez (Axxis-MSi).
Only one rider managed to do better than the Spaniard: Zaccone (Tech3 E-Racing), who set a new lap record at 1m26.234s, making him 0.062s faster and securing pole position. Spinelli will start from the front row in third.
The championship leader had a tough qualifying session: Mattia Casadei (LCR E-Team) will start only from eighth after crashing while trying to improve on his last lap. At the time, yellow flags were being shown, adding a Long Lap penalty to his race for the incident.
Due to crashes, two riders were left without times: Lukas Tulovic (Dynavolt Intact GP), who had been the fastest in practice sessions; and Zannoni, who had to visit the circuit’s medical center for examination.
Results:
💪 @AleZacc61 had to work very hard for his 3rd pole position in a row
— MotoE™ (@MotoEofficial) July 5, 2024
Gutierrez and Spinelli complete the front row as Casadei and @Kevin_Zannoni have a difficult Q2 👀#GermanGP 🇩🇪 pic.twitter.com/Xy2owyldeF
