Having taken a maiden pole final month in Indonesia, Marini added a second to his profession tally when he fired in a 1m51.762s on the finish of Q2 on his VR46 Ducati.
He denied Gresini’s Fabio Di Giannantonio, who Marini is now additionally more likely to beat to the vacant manufacturing unit Honda seat for 2024, a second profession pole, whereas Alex Marquez accomplished the entrance row.
The championship challengers will begin alongside one another in Saturday afternoon’s dash and Sunday’s grand prix, with championship chief Francesco Bagnaia heading Jorge Martin in fourth.
Di Giannantonio set the early tempo within the 15-minute pole shootout session, the Italian posting a brand new lap document of 1m52.188s as his opening effort.
Bagnaia had Honda’s Marc Marquez in tow however went fifth, whereas Martin was third after his second flying lap, having been compelled to abort his first when he virtually hit Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro into Flip 12 whereas following him.
With just below three minutes to go, Di Giannantonio started lighting up the timing screens once more and produced the first-ever sub-1m52s tour of the newly resurfaced Losail circuit.
Di Giannantonio’s 1m51.829s seemed like it could be sufficient to maintain him on pole for the primary time in 2023.
Nonetheless, a 1m51.762s from Marini on the VR46-run 2022-spec Ducati gave him his second pole of the season.
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Fabio Di Giannantonio, Gresini Racing
Alex Marquez needed to come by means of Q1 however was in a position to make the entrance row on the sister Gresini Ducati, beating manufacturing unit Ducati rider Bagnaia by 0.138s.
Martin ended up simply 0.022s shy of Bagnaia in fifth, with Q1 pacesetter Johann Zarco rounding out the highest six on the sister Pramac Ducati.
Marc Marquez was seventh having used Bagnaia as a reference for his second run, with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales eighth forward of RNF counterpart Raul Fernandez.
Espargaro accomplished the highest 10 on the sister manufacturing unit Aprilia, however faces a stewards investigation for slapping Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli throughout third apply earlier on Saturday.
Brad Binder was the lead KTM in eleventh forward of Tech3’s Augusto Fernandez, whereas VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi simply missed out on Q2 and can begin thirteenth.
Fabio Quartararo couldn’t elevate himself out of Q2 and can go from 14th on his Yamaha, whereas final 12 months’s Qatar winner and final week’s Malaysian GP victor Enea Bastianini might do not more than fifteenth on his manufacturing unit Ducati.
Jack Miller was sixteenth on the second manufacturing unit workforce KTM from RNF’s Miguel Oliveira and Morbidelli, whereas Pol Espargaro (Tech3), Joan Mir (Honda) and LCR duo Iker Lecuona and Takaaki Nakagami rounded out the sector.
Lecuona may also be going through a stewards investigation for blocking Bastianini on one of many Italian’s flying laps in Q1.
