Pedro Acosta had a handle oꦍn the tricky, changable, wet conditions a🌠s well as his rivals as he powered through the rain for pole ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, round nine of the championship.

Track conditions mꦐore than played their part🌞 with sections of the track wetter than others and rain falling in some turns and other parts drying.

It was Jake Dixon who first stamped his mark on the session, with Acosta building in🎐to his run as he did in the soaked FP3 earlier in the day.

As the track got faster the Red Bull KTM Ajo rider came into his own, dropping his own best as the three riders who ruled in the wet - Acosta with Fermin Aldeguer and Zonta va൩n den Goorbergh duelled it out to the flag.

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The #37 🎉pulled out an impressive 2m16.953s to close out the sessꦗion in style.

Aldeguer briefly lead for Beta🍃 Tools Speed Up, but saw his last lap cancelled for exceeding track limits when looking set for pole, leaving the Spaniard 0.700s behid his fellow countryman.

Surprise front row for Zonta van den Goorbergh.

After moving through Q1 Zonta van den Goorbergh had🎐 gotten to grips with the conditions and carried that form into Q2.

Immediatley back at the sharp end the Dutch ri🃏der was in with a shout of pole, briefly standing at the top of the timing screens and improving on his final run for a first ever front row start with Fieten Olie Racing GP.

It eclipses the sevent🌺een year oﷺld’s previous best of fourteenth on the grid.

Arbolino bounces back for fourth 

Championship leader Tony Arbolino as off th🦩e pace in the dry on Friday and was knocked out of the ꧒automatic Q2 places.

Second in the wet FP3, he also won in the only real wet race t🍨his season, the Argentina round, and having to come through Q1 was a further asset, with even more track time in the rain under his belt.

That first qualifying session did end with him on top but was not without incident as he also crashed out, 🌠a spil🌼l at Vale.

The #14 cut a frustrated figure aౠhead of Q2, seemingly upset that something was missing or awry🌱 in his pit box.

Undeterred, Arbolino fought back. Fourteenth until the final two minutes he jumped up to third, slipping to fourth by the time the clock hit zero to cꩲomplete a strong recovery performance.

Alonso Lopez spent much of his time behind his Boscoscuo teammate, Aldeguer. On pole at the last round before the summer꧋ break in Assen, the #21 will line up fifth.

ꦇFastest on Friday in the dry, Aron Canet was almost as competitive in the👍 wet, but not quite, leaving the Pons Wegow Los 40 rider to pick up sixth to complete row two.

Sergio Garcia wa🦋s the best of the rookies in seventh behind his teammate.

Barry Baltus made the most of moving to Q2 with a performance good ♏enough for eighth place on the second Fieten OLie racing bike, completing a strong Saturday for🧸 the team.

Sam Lowes was🍸 the best of the Brits, starting his final home Moto2 race at Silverstone from ninth for Elf Marc VDS. 

Joe Roberts claimed a top ten start for Ita🎐ltrans.

Qualifying ends in disaster for Dixon.

Assen winner Jake Dixon was on top in the wet FP3 in the morning d🌠espite a late fall, so was well prepared and a🔥ble to fight hard in the treacherous conditions.

He immediately showed he had what it takes for pole, but ha🍸d competition from the front row trio, with his opening fast banker lap dropping to fifth, there was r🦋ed sectors across the first three parts of the track on his second run aboard the Tensite GasGas bike.

The Aspar rider was all set to take over at the top again and looking to the fin꧋ish line when he was unceremoniously shot off his Kalex sideways after doing en📖ough to stop the typical highside which was suffered by many.

Shooti🐻ng off into the gravel the man from Dover landed hard on his right hip, and was powerless to do anything to stop his fall downꦫ the order.

He finally finished eleveth ahead of his home round instead of the pole he dreamed of an𒊎d was more than capable of getting.

Albert Arenas did not set a ꦗtime after being the first to fall in the session on his flying lap, near✃ Becketts.

What happened in Q1?

Tony Arbolino lived up to expectations leading the way with Barry Baltus, Zonta van den Goorbergh  nd Darryn Binder (14th) joining🐭 him, the latter putting in an electric run where he passed both Bo Bendsneyder and Taiga Hader to move up to fourth.

That ran Jeremy Alcoba and Izan Guevara out of contention, both pulling out personal bests on their final triღps of Silverstone but not able to compete ▨with Binder’s best. They start from 19th and 20th respectively.

Rory Skinner was in the mix to move on but then got swamped by faster times as the session progressed,𒆙 leaving the rookie 21st for his first home Moto2 race.

Injuries and replacements

Though his teammate Rory Skinner is back, Sean Dylan Kelly is absent as he recovers from an arm injury, he is 𒁏not replaced by American racing.