Francesco Bagnaia put Ducati’s impressive final sector advantage to good use by claiming pole position for t🦩he Aragon MotoGP.💜 

The Italian was on par with Fabꦓio Quartararo throughout the first three sectors, however, Bagnaia gained over three tenths on the back-straight and final corner. 

Bagnaia’s pole lap was also 🎉a new lap record as he eclipsed Marc Marquez’ previous best from 2015.

"I’m very happy. I started the weekend with a lot of questions about this track because I struggle a lot every year on this track and my best result was in Moto2 when I finꦆished second," said Bagnaia. 

"But, it was the only year where ♏I was competitive here. But, when I started these two days here in FP1 the feeli🐭ng was already great. 

"I was happy about t♒he bike, so in this moment I didn’t touch the bike or anything on my setting. The bike is s⭕till the same and I just improved our pace and then in FP4 we were very competitive and also in qualifying. 

"I did a lap that was incredible and in the last sector I just entered the final co🔥rner as fast as I could and the bike just let me turn𓂃, so it was incredible the lap time. 

"This is the sixth year of the record by Marquez and this is✨ the first time we beat it, so I’m very happy about that also." 

Surprisin🃏gly, it seems as though the soft rear tyre is the preferred option heading into tomorrow’s race, ev🎉en though track temperatures have been extremely hot. 

It’s also Bagnaia’ favoured option as it stands due to the ‘consistency and grip’, aft❀er an FP4 run that saw him finish third. 

Bagnaia added: "I think that the soft tyre is a great combination of grip and constancy. With the hard in FP3 it was not so bad, 𝓀but it dropped more than the soft. 

"Today I did 16 laps in the FP4 and w⭕hen I started (the session) the tyre (soft﷽) already had eight laps. 

"The pace was constant and I tried different types of maps to be competitive tomorrow, also in the last pa🐷rt of the race. 

"In this track 🦹it’s strange because you can use full power for all the duration of the race I think, because you can better manage the circuit grip."