The silent, electric motorcycles of MotoE, the identically prepared Energica Eco Corse bikes, are ready to take on their second race of 2020, and their second race in Andalusia at the Jerez de la Frontera circuit in Jerez, Spain. 19 bikes will be on track to do battle. The race for MotoE, is go! Six laps scheduled, once again for these bikes, to preserve enough of a battery charge for them. A battle ensues for the lead right from the start. Polesitter Dominique Aegerter of Switzerland (former Moto2 racer), is being pressed by experienced Spaniard Jordi Torres, who has raced in Moto3, Moto2, and for a few years in World Superbike. Torres takes the lead, but he runs wide. Bikes scatter as a rider goes down! That's the #70 machine of Tommaso Marcon of Italy, riding for Tech3 E-Racing. Ouch! Even on an electric motorcycle, you can still have quite the skid, and that is what he's got, big style.
These bikes might be silent operators but they are just as precarious to ride as their gasoline powered cousins in MotoGP, Moto2, or Moto3. Meanwhile, Aegerter has his hands full, as on the outside line, bike #11 is going for the lead. That is Matteo Ferrari of Italy on the Tretino Gressini MotoE bike. Ferrari gets the best of Aegerter as we are approaching the halfway mark in this race. Not so fast, says Ferrari. He comes back on the outside and uses electric jet propulsion to try and get back around Aegerter. The Italian vs. the Frenchman. Whoops! We have another rider down. It looks like the #66 of Finland's Niki Tuuli has gone down. Tuuli riding for his countryman Niklas Ajo's team. Ajo is a former Moto3 and Moto2 racer who is now a team owner.
Tuuli looks to be down and out as we have three laps to go. We're past halfway in round two of the MotoE championship for 2020. Eric Granado of France, he has moved up to second place on the #51 Avintia Esponsorama Racing bike, and he is giving Dominique Aegerter all he can handle. Oh! This is a mess! Aegerter and Granado are down and out! They make contact, and like an explosion, both riders are pitched off their bikes in a cloud of smoke! Aegerter restarts his bike, and he is going to come back and win this MotoE race here in Spain! Wow! How could you have scripted that ending? You couldn't have. That was a wild finish!
#77 Dominique Aegerter CHE. Dynavolt Intact GP
The Dynavolt Intact GP team can celebrate! Aegerter leads the points standings on 41 points over Jordi Torres 11 markers behind, followed by Eric Granado, and Italian Mattia Casadei. Aegerter, Jordi Torres, and Casadei, are your podium finishers in MotoE race two, here in Spain. So, round two of MotoE is in the bag. Now, the MotoE riders get a break during the month of August. We will not see them until the middle of September when they are slated to race round three of the championship, in San Marino, at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli on Italy's Adriatic coast. See you for coverage of that race, when it happens, here on 2 Wheelin'. So long, for now.
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