2021 MotoE World Cup

2021 F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season

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Support series:
2021 MotoGP World Championship
2021 Moto2 World Championship
2021 Moto3 World Championship

The 2021 MotoE World Cup (known officially as the 2021FIM Enel MotoE World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the third season of the MotoE World Cup for electric motorcycle racing, and was a support series of the 73rd F.I.M. Grand Prix motorcycle racing season.

The Cup was won by Spanish rider Jordi Torres for the second consecutive season at the final round in Misano. ^[1]

Teams and riders

All teams used the series-specified Energica Ego Corsa.

Team No. Rider Rounds Avant Ajo MotoE 78 Hikari Okubo [2] All Avintia Esponsorama Racing 14 André Pires [3] All 18 Xavier Cardelús [3] All Dynavolt Intact GP 77 Dominique Aegerter [4] All Indonesian E-Racing Gresini MotoE 9 Andrea Mantovani  [ it ] [5] All 11 Matteo Ferrari [5] All LCR E-Team 21 Kevin Zannoni  [ it ] All 71 Miquel Pons All Octo Pramac MotoE 61 Alessandro Zaccone All 68 Yonny Hernández All One Energy Racing 51 Eric Granado [6] All Ongetta Sic58 Squadracorse 27 Mattia Casadei 1–4, 6 43 Stefano Valtulini 5 OpenBank Aspar Team 6 María Herrera All 54 Fermín Aldeguer [7] All Pons Racing 40 HP Pons 40 40 Jordi Torres [8] All 80 Jasper Iwema [9] All Tech3 E-Racing 3 Lukas Tulovic [10] All 19 Corentin Perolari  [ it ] [10] All Source: [11]

Key Regular rider Replacement rider

Rider changes

• Alex de Angelis announced his retirement from motorcycle racing at the end of 2020. ^[12]
• Alessandro Zaccone moved from Gresini Racing to replace de Angelis at Pramac.
• Andrea Mantovani  [ it ] made his full season debut with Gresini Racing to replace Zaccone. ^[5]
• Yonny Hernández made his class debut, replacing Joshua Hook at Pramac, and returning to the MotoGP paddock for the first time since 2017.
• Eric Granado moved from Esponsorama Racing to WithU Motorsport, replacing Jakub Kornfeil. ^[6]
• André Pires made his class debut with Esponsorama Racing, replacing Granado. ^[3]
• Corentin Perolari  [ it ] made his full season debut with Tech3 to replace Tommaso Marcon  [ it ]. ^[10]
• Rookies Miquel Pons and Kevin Zannoni  [ it ] joined LCR E-Team to replace Xavier Siméon and Niccolò Canepa. ^[13]
• Hikari Okubo joined Avant Ajo MotoE for his debut in the class, replacing Niki Tuuli. ^[2]
• Jasper Iwema made his debut in the class with Pons Racing 40 adding a second bike, marking his first return to the MotoGP paddock since 2015. ^[9]
• Fermín Aldeguer entered the class to replace compatriot Alejandro Medina at Aspar. ^[7]

Team changes

• Marc VDS and their rider Mike Di Meglio left the class for 2021, citing scheduling conflicts with Di Meglio's Endurance World Championship entries. ^[14]
• Pons Racing added a second entry in the grid vacancy left by Marc VDS' withdrawal.

Mid season changes

• Mattia Casadei missed the Austrian round due to him testing positive for COVID-19. He was replaced by Stefano Valtulini for the round.

Regulation changes

On weekends with two races, the E-Pole qualifying session would determine the starting grid for both races. Previously, the starting grid for the second race was based on the results of the first race. ^[15]

Calendar

The 2021 MotoE provisional calendar was released on 11 November 2020, featuring 7 races at 6 venues, supporting the Spanish, French, Catalan, Dutch, Austrian and San Marino Grand Prix—the latter being a double header. ^[16]

Round	Date	Grand Prix	Circuit
1	2 May	Gran Premio Red Bull de España	Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto, Jerez de la Frontera
2	16 May	Shark Grand Prix de France	Bugatti Circuit, Le Mans
3	6 June	Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló
4	27 June	Motul TT Assen	TT Circuit Assen, Assen
5	15 August	Bitci Motorrad Grand Prix von Österreich	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg
6	18 September	Gran Premio Octo di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini	Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Misano Adriatico
	19 September

Results and standings

Grands Prix

Round	Grand Prix	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning rider	Winning team	Report
1	Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix	Eric Granado	Eric Granado	Alessandro Zaccone	Octo Pramac MotoE	Report
2	French motorcycle Grand Prix	Eric Granado	Matteo Ferrari	Eric Granado	One Energy Racing	Report
3	Catalan motorcycle Grand Prix	Eric Granado	Eric Granado	Miquel Pons	LCR E-Team	Report
4	Dutch TT	Eric Granado	Eric Granado	Eric Granado	One Energy Racing	Report
5	Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix	Fermín Aldeguer	Eric Granado	Lukas Tulovic	Tech3 E-Racing	Report
6	San Marino and Rimini Riviera motorcycle Grand Prix	Jordi Torres	Kevin Zannoni  [ it ]	Jordi Torres	HP Pons 40	Report
			Dominique Aegerter	Matteo Ferrari	Indonesian E-Racing Gresini MotoE

Cup standings

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider had to finish the race to earn points.

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Points	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Pos. Rider SPA FRA CAT NED AUT RSM Pts 1 Jordi Torres 3 5 3 2 7 1P 13P 100 2 Dominique Aegerter 2 4 2 18 3 2 12F 93 3 Matteo Ferrari 6 8F 7 4 8 4 1 86 4 Eric Granado 13P F 1P RetP F 1P F 2F Ret 5 84 5 Alessandro Zaccone 1 3 4 3 6 Ret DNS 80 6 Mattia Casadei 4 2 Ret 6 3 2 79 7 Miquel Pons 5 DNS 1 10 12 5 3 73 8 Lukas Tulovic Ret 7 8 5 1 8 15 62 9 Fermín Aldeguer Ret 15 6 7 4P 7 7 51 10 Yonny Hernández 10 6 5 9 10 9 Ret 47 11 Hikari Okubo 7 Ret 9 8 5 Ret 6 45 12 Kevin Zannoni  [ it ] 14 11 12 13 9 6F 4 44 13 Corentin Perolari  [ it ] Ret 9 10 11 13 12 10 31 14 Andrea Mantovani  [ it ] 8 DNS 14 14 11 11 9 29 15 María Herrera 9 10 11 15 17 13 11 27 16 Xavier Cardelús Ret 13 Ret 12 18 10 8 21 17 Jasper Iwema 11 14 Ret 16 14 14 14 13 18 André Pires 12 12 13 17 16 15 DNS 12 19 Stefano Valtulini 15 1 Pos. Rider SPA FRA CAT NED AUT RSM Pts Source: [17]

Race key Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Annotation Meaning P Pole position F Fastest lap Rider key Colour Meaning Light blue Rookie rider

References

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