Bagnaia’s record fifth pole position continues Ducati’s winning streak

After losing 61 of 100 points in the last 4 races, Pecco Banaia With pole position on the grid at the Motorland Aragon circuit, he has a great chance of achieving a historic five-match winning streak for only the third time in MotoGP history. Ducatista’s fifth pole of the year, like the previous record he broke the record with 1’46″049.0″244 on the line, his third from Austria.

without it Marc Marquez Fabio Quartararo and Aleix Espargaro again invested insufficient effort to prevent a new pole or triplet on the front row for Ducati, staying in Q1 in third place with a 66/66000 against Johann Zarco. .

Aleix EspargaroHeated up from his recent stint in Q1, he soon began working with Quartararo and Nakagami, the only Honda qualified to fight for pole and start last.

Ducati, top to bottom

First provisional pole already Enea Bastianini’s Ducati At 1’46″580, two tenths of the track record held by Bagnaia since last year (1’46″322), it is already the best time of the weekend, 0″445 ahead of Bagnaia. In the following Giro, he was left with no choice: in T4 he beat ‘The Beast’, who was classified second in the World Cup, and repeated his time (1’46″592). 053 Bagnaia- with him a top speed of 354.1 km/h, his new Motorland record.Bastianini, Bagnaia and Miller are already on the provisional front row, Quartararo his 7th and Aleix his Espargaro his 11th. did.

Aleix Espargaro continued his alternative strategy and continued to look for options to use new rubber only on track and was able to close out the lap in 1’46″590, while Bagnaia was able to finish his lap in 1’46”. I broke my own record. In the 069 and his 90/1000 his teammate Jack Miller completed his triplet in the new Ducati on the front row with Bastianini.

Espargaro’s efforts saw him start from 4th at the circuit where he signed his first MotoGP podium in 2014, while Quartararo moved up from 10th to 6th on his final run, being split by Zarco on the second row. became.

Bezzecchi Jorge Martín and Alex Rins will start from 3rd, while KTM Brad Binder, Oliveira and Taka Nakagami will start from 4th.