Hughes (McLaren) on pole in the second Misano E-Prix. Vergne (Ds Penske) second again. The race starts at 3.03 pm

MISANO ADRIATICO – The third pillar of the career of Jake Hughes, the nearly 30-year-old Neom McLaren driver with a Nissan train, who on the eve of the second race of the Formula E ePrix in Misano Adriatico beat Jean Eric Vergne ( Ds Penske) for 245 thousand, for the second time in 24 hours to be beaten on a woolen thread. Yesterday in the playoff which was worth 3 points preceded by Mitch Evans (Jaguar Tcs), today the Englishman who also gave his team the first Pole in the tenth season; His teammate Sam Bird had already given victory in the Sao Paulo race to his Team Principal, Ian James.

Hughes got the lead with a layup of almost complete laps, also documenting the best time qualifying groups. In the qualifying round he eliminated Stoffel Vandoorne (Ds Penske) in the fourth match with the fastest speed of the morning (1:16.413) and then in the semi-final the German Tag Heuer Porsche Pascal Wehrlein, who was only 53 thousandths from him and who in the round the first he had beaten another Neom McLaren driver, Ndege.

At the top of the scoreboard, Vergne (punished yesterday when he arrived with 5” which cost him some positions and some points) to benefit from the intervention of the stewards, who canceled the time of Nick Cassidy (Jagaur Tcs) for exceeding the permitted lap limits. In the semi-final, running at the same time, he took out Nico Müller (Abt Cupra) who had put Robin Frijns (Envision) behind him. The one who applauded him in the arena was the CEO of Stellantis Carlos Tavares, “accompanied” by Alejandor Agag and Alberto Longo, the founders of the championship.

The seventh ePrix of the tenth Formula E season it starts shortly after 3pm and will consist of 26 laps, 2 less than yesterday. It means that energy management will be less important and that the ride will come a few laps earlier. On the grid, Germans Wehrlein and Müller will start behind Hughes and Vergne, followed in the third row by Bird and Vandoorne and in the fourth row by Frijns and Cassidy, both with Jaguar powertrains. Englishman Jake Dennis (Andretti), the reigning world champion, and yesterday’s winner Oliver Rowland (Nissan) start ninth and tenth. The first Maserati, driven by Maximilian Günther, is twelfth on the grid.