Catalunya MotoGP: Aleix Espargaro snatches pole as Jorge Martin crashes

Aleix Esp🌄argaro continued his perfect home round by claiming pole position ahead of Francesco Bagnaia.

Aleix Espargaro Catalunya
Aleix Espargaro Catalunya

Looking to do what he couldn’t at the French MotoGP, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez’s hopes of making Q2 go🐈t off to a good start as he twice went fastest.

However, the eight-time world champion was bumped down to second at the end of the opening run by Trackhouse Aprilia rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez.

Competitive on his first two time attack laps, Fabio Quartararo was𝓀 the rider narrowly missing out on a Q2 spot.

At the start of the second 🌞and final run Fernandez f꧑ound even more time as he set a new all-time lap record.

Marc Marquez mom꧒entarily got back into the top two, however, a new all-time lap record from Fabio Di Giannantonio saw the Gresini rider moved out of the top two for the second race weekend in a row.

It got worse for Marquez when his brother Alex moved ahead of him with his﷽ final lap of the session. 

Shootout for pole goes the way of Espargaro

In Q2, Francesco Bagnaia was th🌳e rider to beat following the opening stint as he put -0.148s between himself and Pedro Acosta.

Third after his first run was Jorge Martin, oဣne spot a🍰head of pre-qualifying favourite Aleix Espargaro.

T💎o begin the second and final run, Martin’s bid to take pole ended early on as he tucked the front at turn two.

Following his team-mate, Franco Morbidell🥃i followed Martin in crashing out of qualifying at the same corner.

Bagnaia, who failed to improve on his second run, saw pole snatched away from him in the ౠdying seconds as Aleix Esparg🌸aro set a brilliant time of 1:38.190s.

Brad Binder rounds out the front row following 🎃a very impressive final s✨ector from the KTM rider. 

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