After exactly three months (15th of May), Matteo Ferrari is back on the front row by finishing in the top three in Spielberg’s E-Pole, the penultimate one of the MotoE season. The standard bearer of Team Indonesian E-Racing Gresini MotoE, who has well performed in all sessions, managed to set his personal best lap-time today during the single-lap qualifying session and will line up on the third spot of the #AustrianGP grid.
Some positive signs also come from the other side of the pit-box, with Andrea Mantovani able to improve his performance across the weekend so far – on a new circuit for him – and was able to finish 15th with a time of 1’36.865secs. The goal for tomorrow’s race (scheduled at 15:30 local time) will be to get in the top-ten, which was only a few milliseconds away today.
3º – MATTEO FERRARI #11 (1’35.546)
“It’s been a very positive weekend so far and we showed today that we’re quick, and we have a competitive bike. The goal was to stay ahead of my title rivals and I must say mission accomplished. We now have to score the most points we can in order to get to Misano and battle for the title.”
15º – ANDREA MANTOVANI #9 (1’36.865)
“We were able to replicate our FP3 time in E-Pole, but it’s a shame that we can’t manage to be more effective in such a challenging qualifying session format-wise. If I had one more lap available I would have surely been a lot closer to the front of the grid, but it’s the same for everybody so we need to improve.”