The 2021 eVirtual championship continues with the third street race of the year in the streets of Marrakesh. 30 drivers fought it out to take pole for the Marrakesh eV-Prix. Q1K8ley returned to Q1 thanks to a handy points haul for Arrow in Britain. Both them and OSM easily qualified however, Stokey and Matthews 1st and 4th, Domenicalli and Kasami 3rd and 6th. Another top quali lap saw Garcia take a surprised 2nd. Haugland was the other driver to qualify, putting the sole BMW through in 5th. The rest were nowhere close, Bruner some 7 tenths off in 7th with another DNQ. Lamborghini suffered another double DNQ and Holzberg struggled once again, well off the pace. Q2Nearly all the usual front runners made it into Q3 - Taylor back on form with the session's fastest lap, along with Cesar and Maxwell in the top 3. McLaughlin also made it through after some awful weekends in 6th, with Zozulya just sneaking into the top 10. The standouts were Monaco heroes Matthews and Domenicalli, finishing 4th and 5th. Yoshida joined his teammate in Q3, van Snelheid racked up another Q3 appearance and Davies impressed to put a Renault into the shootout. There were some surprise knockouts. Both Highwinds failed to qualify, Klien just missing out in 11th, Ellington right towards the back. Hutchinson was well of his teammate, only managing 13th, while Fusion had a disaster after the highs of Britain - Thunder 19th, last race winner Zvironas 22nd. Hudson was another who struggled, 20th for the former race winner. On the other hand, Kasami saw an upturn in his quali form with 12th, Bergkvist finished a couple of places up ahead of his teammate and Haugland was solid, beating both Fusion cars. Q3Domenicalli was unable to repeat his earlier pace and was slowest in Q3, behind Davies who still felt he did what he could. 8th was Cesar - the Brazilian felt that he was too conservative into several chicanes and was disappointed. Just ahead of him, McLaughlin and van Snelheid set identical lap times for 6th, but the Dutchman will start ahead of the New Zealander due to setting his lap earlier.
Maxwell was unable to challenge for pole as he finished 5th, behind Matthews who put together yet another exceptional Q3 lap for 4th. Taylor beat his compatrionts but couldn't beat title rival Zozulya, who was half a second up on the Jaguar. But that wasn't good enough for pole as Yoshida pulled a lap out of the bag good enough for 1st, shocking even his own team as he took the top spot. It will be the Japanese driver's first eV pole, and he will be looking to add a first race win to that in the race.
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