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MotoGP Brazilian GP: Fabio di Giannantonio takes pole in crash-filled qualifying
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MotoGP Brazilian GP: Fabio di Giannantonio takes pole in crash-filled qualifying

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By Motorsports March 21, 2026
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got here by means of Q1 to ship pole place for VR46 within the MotoGP Brazilian Grand Prix, regardless of struggling a late crash himself in qualifying.

Though the monitor remained dry all through Saturday after heavy showers earlier within the weekend, the Goiania circuit caught out a number of riders in qualifying.

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was the primary rider to go down in Q2, shedding his manufacturing unit Ducati at Flip 10 simply three minutes into the session.

Championship chief  was the subsequent rider to endure a fall, changing into the newest sufferer of the infamous Flip 4, with crashing on the similar nook quickly after.

Whereas all three have been in a position to return to the storage to mount their second bikes, the early drama allowed di Giannantonio to seize provisional pole on the VR46 Ducati, with Marquez holding on to second place.

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held third place on the finish of the primary runs, together with his Aprilia team-mate grabbing fifth on the midway mark.

When the second runs started, di Giannantonio fractionally improved his time to 1m17.410s, however this nonetheless left him susceptible to his rivals within the dying minutes of qualifying.

Martin was on target to go faster than the Italian, however went down at Flip 6 with simply three minutes left on the clock, resulting in yellow flags being waved.

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Di Giannantonio himself suffered a late crash at Flip 4 shortly after, plunging qualifying into chaos.

Nonetheless, nobody rider was finally in a position to outpace the 27-year-old, who held on to clinch simply the second pole place of his MotoGP profession.

Thailand Grand Prix winner Bezzecchi climbed to second in direction of the tip of the session, however was unable to duplicate his Q1 lap, which might have secured him pole place by 0.002s.

Third place on the grid went to the manufacturing unit Ducati of Marquez, whereas Yamaha’s put collectively an unimaginable lap within the last moments to seize fourth.

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Martin remained fifth regardless of his late crash, beating the Trackhouse Aprilia of .

Gresini duo and wound up seventh and eighth respectively, whereas Acosta may handle no higher than ninth on the manufacturing unit KTM following his early tumble.

(LCR), Bagnaia and (Pramac) made up the fourth row of the grid in tenth, eleventh and twelfth respectively.

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Manufacturing facility Honda rider ended up thirteenth on the grid, after being pipped to the ultimate Q2 spot by VR46 rival di Giannantonio. He was carefully adopted by dwelling favorite on the LCR-mounted Honda.

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The Brazilian held a provisional Q2 spot on the finish of the opening run, however a mistake on his subsequent flying lap prevented him from enhancing his earlier time of 1m17.812s.

(VR46), (Trackhouse) and (Yamaha) have been subsequent up in fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth respectively. Each (Pramac) and (Honda) suffered their second crashes of the weekend in Q1, consigning them to 18th and nineteenth on the grid.

The 22-bike area was propped up by the KTMs of , and .

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Fabio Di Giannantonio, VR46 Racing Group, Alex Rins, Yamaha Manufacturing facility Racing

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Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati GroupFrancesco Bagnaia, Ducati Team

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Diogo Moreira, Group LCR HondaDiogo Moreira, Team LCR Honda

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