Bagnaia didn’t give Aprilia a chance and took pole position

Italian Pecco Bagnaia Title renewal is now in direct mode and nothing seems to be stopping it. Since he came back from the holidays, he is experiencing the sweetest moment of this campaign where the number 1 rides his Ducati and to beat him you have to be sharp and confident. He dared to answer the dominance of Aprilia in the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit in one turn and relegated two of Noale’s bikes, Aleix Espargaró, the leader on Friday and poleman in 2022, and the surprise of Miguel Oliveira , which originated in Q1.

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The opportunism of Marc Márquez This allowed him to overcome Q1 on the wheel of Jack Miller, but this was his limit. He didn’t even touch the tire chosen in the session to fight for pole position. If you take the risk the 1’39″070 of Q1, He let himself down with 1’39″701 in Q2, his peak is currently in the fourth line and from there the top-10 is the ceiling and the rest is as hard as winning the lottery, he already said on Thursday.

The record for the fastest lap given at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit was broken in Practice on Friday by Aleix Espargaró with 1’38″686 and then in Q1 Oliveira stroked last year’s pole time (1’38” 789) anything other than seeing an Aprilia on pole would be a big surprise, although Bagnaia has been attentive throughout the weekend, more active than usual from less to more since Friday . And finally the surprise came from the driver who was in the sweetest time of the season, the leader of Bagnaia signed the sixth pole position of the year with a new record.

At 1’39″099 Maverick Vinales marked the first reference ahead of Binder, Aleix Espargaró and Bagnaia and Marc Márquez He came out with worn tires in his first attempt to ride without a reference and rolled 1″6 slower than in Q1 on Miller’s wheel, the fact of who continues to lead the all-time MotoGP pole record .

Now with new rubber Marc Márquez He looked for Bagnaia’s tire, determined to control the right risk so as not to lose it, it disappeared and Oliveira got ahead of him, taking advantage to move into third and into the front row. Has 1’38″752 Aleix Espargaro he replaced Viñales, close to the record, and Bagnaia, after letting go of Márquez, beat him by 1’38″639. Aleix’s next lap was cancelled, Viñales not lifting enough to take the four and he didn’t even get off and saw the checkered flag.

The Aprilia Capitano fought it out on his last lap around the circuit, but he was 0″104 behind Bagnaia, the sixth pole position of the season for the Ducatista, and he will share the front row with Aleix Espargaró and Miguel Oliveira.

Viñales, Martín and Zarco will start on the second row in both races and Alex Márquez, Di Giannantonio and Binder will start on the third row. There will be news on the fourth row as Bastianini has a three position grid penalty for Sunday, so Bezecchi, Bastianini and Marc Márquez will be on the fourth row this Saturday and Bezzecchi, Marc Márquez and Jack Miller on Sunday.

Regarding the remaining Spaniards, 14th Pol Espargaró, 15th Raúl Fernández, 19th Augusto Fernández, 20th Joan Mir and 22nd Iker Lecuona.

Q2 Classification

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Marc Márquez won Q1 on Miller’s wheel

The 12 drivers who had to go through the Q1 play-off encountered the first rain flags as the first drops fell in some parts of the circuit, especially at the end of the straight, increasing the uncertainty of when and how it will play for one of the first two places. After the first round Oliveira and Morbidelli had a provisional pass and Quartararo crashed when he fell into the gravel after leaving the track. Marc Márquez he was fourth with a bruise of one tenth.

Back on track, Márquez decided to risk Miller’s tire and set first at 1’39″070, his ceiling after taking provisional pole position from the ‘Aussie’ and he got off the bike.

Oliveira had the fastest time taken from him by 0.281, one pole time from last year, but no one, not even Miller, was able to dislodge him and allow him an extra 15 minutes to get into the first four rows of grid. Winner Fabio Si Quartararo from last year’s race will start 17th on the grid after landing on the gravel after leaving the track at the start of Q1.

Q1 Classification