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claimed one more 2025 pole place on Saturday on the Qatar Grand Prix, edging his brother Alex (Gresini Ducati) into a well-known second place.
Two main shocks emerged from the baking sizzling afternoon session at Losail. One was Marquez’s manufacturing unit Ducati team-mate falling on his last run, condemning himself to a lowly eleventh place on the grid and making a repeat of his victory in America final day out unlikely.
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The second huge shock was finishing the entrance row on the manufacturing unit Yamaha. The 2021 Doha GP winner briefly headed the timesheets with simply over a minute of the session remaining, however was then pipped in fast succession by the Marquez brothers.
Fourth and fifth locations have been claimed by the persistently aggressive VR46 Ducatis, with getting the sting on on this event. Maverick Vinales () repeated his advantageous qualifying kind from the Americas GP by rounding out the second row because the main KTM rider.
(LCR Honda), (Gresini Ducati) and Quartararo’s team-mate will make up row three.
Rookie Trackhouse rider was the one Aprilia consultant to make it into Q2 and responded by qualifying tenth forward of Bagnaia. Unusually sluggish on this session was manufacturing unit KTM rider , who may solely handle twelfth.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Workforce
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati TeamNoushad Thekkayil – NurPhoto – Getty Pictures
Noushad Thekkayil – NurPhoto – Getty Pictures
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Earlier in Q1, Ogura booked his passage into Q2 with a dominant efficiency. His quickest lap from the primary runs at the start of the session would have been sufficient for him to sit down out the ultimate assault on contemporary rubber, however the Japanese rookie used the chance to rub his rivals’ noses in it by going even faster.
Ogura ended the session with a finest time of 1m51.104s and a formidable margin of 0.408s over Rins, who was thus in a position to be part of team-mate Quartararo in Q2.
Aprilia had little to have fun other than Ogura’s sturdy enchancment on Friday, with manufacturing unit rider the quickest to overlook out on passage to Q2. However at the least the Italian was a tenth faster than his team-mate , who given his health and lack of motorcycle time.
Martin made a mistake firstly of his first flying lap on his last run, which allowed him only one last probability to nail a lap. He duly seized this, reserving himself 14th spot on the beginning grid alongside Bezzecchi.
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will begin fifteenth after what was a disappointing day for the manufacturing unit Honda squad. His team-mate will probably be having flashbacks to 2024 after reserving himself a humble twenty first spot on the grid, one away from on the very again.
An under-the-weather will line up sixteenth after falling off his Pramac Yamaha twice in apply.
Fellow southern hemisphere rider additionally dissatisfied aboard the second manufacturing unit KTM – Acosta’s team-mate will begin 18th.
Qatar GP Q1 resultsQatar GP Q2 outcomes
