Emilia Romagna MotoGP: Bagnaia claims pole, Quartararo handiest 15th
Title rivals Bagnaia and Quartararo each needed to plow thru Q1 at Misano, nevertheless whereas the passe eased thru and went on to procure pole, late yellow flags meant Quartararo will start a season-worst 15th.
The Misano tune dried sufficiently ample for the self-discipline to plug slicks in FP4, though the frosty temperatures resulted in a series of crashes.
That type persevered into qualifying, though Bagnaia showed no signs of wavering in the must haves as he pushed his Ducati to an initial benchmark of 1m33.045s on the beginning of Q2.
This establish him over a 2nd obvious of the self-discipline, though that gap would at final be decrease to factual 0.025 2nd by his factory Ducati teammate Jack Miller on the stay of Q2.
Nonetheless the Australian’s 1m33.070s one way or the other wasn’t ample to disclaim Bagnaia a fourth-straight MotoGP pole.
Completing the all-Ducati front row came Valentino Rossi’s half of-brother Luca Marini, who leaped as a lot as third on the loss of life of Q2 with a 1m33.130s on his two-year-passe Avintia Ducati for the most attention-grabbing qualifying result of his rookie MotoGP season.
Marini’s negate came on the expense of Honda’s Pol Espargaro, who will head row two from KTM’s Miguel Oliveira and the sole Yamaha in Q2 of Franco Morbidelli in sixth.
Marc Marquez turned into almost sent over his Honda’s handlebars at Turn 2 on the beginning of Q2, and at final did come a cropper at Turn 6 on the stay of the session as he pushed to strive to improved on seventh.
Joining him on row three will be Tech 3 duo Iker Lecuona – who came thru Q1 and briefly held a front row station – and Danilo Petrucci, each of whom additionally crashing on the stay of Q2.
Johann Zarco turned into one more faller in 10th on his Pramac Ducati, with Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and Pramac’s Jorge Martin – who crashed twice in Q2 – winding up the stay 12.
Title rivals Quartararo and Bagnaia occupied the stay two spots for plenty of the opening qualifying session as they made their bids to win into Q2.
Nonetheless the wheels started to come off Quartararo’s worth in the closing stages of Q1, as Suzuki’s Alex Rins shadowed him to fling the Yamaha rider out of 2nd.
On the same time Avintia’s Enea Bastianini tallied up his third break of the day at Turn 6, bringing out the yellow flags and killing Quartararo’s hopes of coming into into Q2.
The championship leader turned into on the beginning clocked in 13th, nevertheless later had his finest lap deleted and turned into pushed down to a season-worst 15th sooner than his first match level in the 2021 championship.
Alternatively, confusion continues to surround Quartararo’s living as the latest results sheet issued by Dorna Sports actions suggests Quartararo is third all but again.
Rins turned into promoted to 13th on sage of Quartararo’s penalty, after Lecuona snatched the final Q2 station from the Suzuki rider, with LCR’s Alex Marquez 14th.
Additional yellow flag cancellations pushed Bastianini encourage as a lot as 16th for Sunday’s speed sooner than Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda) and world champion Joan Mir after the Suzuki rider crashed late on on the final corner.
KTM’s Brad Binder struggled to 20th in the encourage of the Aprilia of Maverick Vinales, with Petronas SRT’s Andrea Dovizioso heading Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro in 21st.
Valentino Rossi had his finest lap cancelled in Q1 for a yellow flag infringement, nevertheless it absolutely turned into immaterial as he turned into constantly situation to start his closing MotoGP look on dwelling soil in final living.