Marc Marquez prolonged his dominance at MotorLand Aragon by taking his second MotoGP pole place of the season on the Ducati GP23.
The 31-year-old has headed all 4 periods to date within the Aragon Grand Prix and is now favorite for the dash in addition to the twelfth race of the season on Sunday.
Thunderstorms within the area created moist and damp periods for all lessons on Saturday morning, however because the skies cleared the sunshine shortly dried the asphalt.
Gresini rider Marquez was the person to beat at a venue the place he has beforehand received 5 occasions and scored seven poles for the reason that the circuit first welcomed MotoGP in 2010.
His quickest effort in Q2 was a hefty 0.8s forward of Tech3’s Pedro Acosta, the spectacular MotoGP rookie who will launch from the entrance row for under the second time in 2024, whereas Marquez’s 2025 team-mate Francesco Bagnaia strains up in third place.
He stated: “In the meanwhile I really feel tremendous good. Eight tenths seems rather a lot, however we can not neglect in different tracks I used to be eight tenths away from pole! We’ve got to maintain the identical mentality as a result of the monitor is sort of slippery and it’s simple to make a mistake.”
Reigning world champion Bagnaia stated that Marquez was capable of pull the big margin as a result of he was capable of tip-toe by means of the damp situations.
He added: “Marc is taking completely different strains and doing various things; being 0.8 forward is unbelievable.”
Bagnaia’s principal title rival Jorge Martin crashed on the strategy to the left-hander Flip 5 within the first minute of Q2.
Martin, who has scored 4 dash victories in 2024, grabbed the Pramac GP24 and took fourth to go the second row of the grid forward of Alex Marquez (Gresini) and team-mate Franco Morbidelli, that means 5 Ducatis fill the highest six grid slots.
The third row can be headed by KTM’s Brad Binder, who begins in seventh, marginally sooner than Trackhouse Racing duo Raul Fernandez and Miguel Oliveira. LCR’s Johann Zarco gave Honda some renewed hope of enhancing by gatecrashing Q2 on his Honda. It was the primary time a RC213V had been within the second a part of qualifying in 2024 – and the Frenchman rounded out the highest ten.
Enea Bastianini, who received the British Grand Prix and has taken three podium finishes from the final 4 rounds, couldn’t piece a lap collectively in Q1 and was categorized down in 14th.
MotoGP Aragon GP: Q2 outcomes:
MotoGP Aragon GP: Q1 outcomes:
