Marc Marquez, the leader of the MotoGP World Championship, will go into pole position of the Sprint race on Saturday and the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday, ahead of his teammate Francesco Bagnaia, his brother Alex and the French Fabio Quartararo. Johann Zarco has not crossed the Q1.
Fifth pole position of the season and 100th pole all categories for Marc Marquez! The championship leader, winner of four Grands Prix in eight, will start in first position during the GP of Italy in Mugello, on the handlebars of his Ducati. Only fourth of the first two free test sessions Friday and second Saturday morning, the Spanish pilot won the pole by breaking the circuit record: 1,44 ″ 169!
Marc Marquez had already broken the record at the very start of the qualifying session, in 1,44 ″ 500. It was then the French Fabien Quartararo, well recovered from his dislocation of the left shoulder on Friday suffered afternoon, which earned him a passage by the Florence hospital, which signed the record in 1,44 ″ 411 to four minutes from the end. But Marc Marquez’s teammate, Francesco Bagnaia, then beat him, to the delight of the tifosi, in 1,44 ″ 228, before Marquez dislodged him a few moments later. And no pilot did better during the last three minutes of the session.
A first line 100% Ducati
“I am super happy because theoretically, it is a circuit where I am not the best. And being able to do pole, it shows that we are really there. It will be a little more complicated in the afternoon, with the heat. We don’t have the rhythm we had in Aragon, and three or four pilots, like Peco (Bagnaia) and Vinales, have a lot of pace. The start will be really very important, ”said the poleman at the microphone of Canal +. Already leader of the championship, the Ducati driver will therefore have the opportunity to go out in the lead and perhaps fill up on the occasion of the Sprint race on Saturday (3:00 p.m.) and the GP on Sunday (2:00 p.m.).
The first line will be 100% Ducati, since Marquez will leave in front of Bagnaia, and his brother Alex, third on the handlebars of his Gresini, the satellite stable. Fabio Quartararo will start in fourth position, just ahead of Maverick Vinales and Franco Morbidelli. The other French pilot, Johann Zarco, not really in thekend since the start of the weekend (“I have the impression of having the motorcycle of last year,” he told
Canal +), did not manage to qualify for the Q2 and will therefore go in 14th position. We will have to whip to finish in the points.
