Marquez starts from pole after 3 years!

Rain continued to dominate Saturday’s Japanese Grand Prix, with the day restarting after Moto2 qualifying was suspended for an hour and a half by canceling MotoGP’s third practice session. The forecast is for sunny skies this Sunday, so it won’t be of any use. The star grid entered the battle for pole in erratic conditions, with large amounts of water on the asphalt and intermittent rain that continued to make things difficult. And 1071 days later, a giant Marc Marquez appeared, with everything that has happened since July 2020 with its right arm and shoulder, Honda not finishing the carb, and in front of the HRC dome, he added his first pole position in three years. Motegi is the last stop. This was his 91st in his career and his 63rd in MotoGP, and he continues to lead the list of all-time winners by a wide margin.

Marc Márquez was 0.144 seconds ahead of Martin in FP2, the only wet practice at Motegi in the morning, but there he saw the light at the end of the tunnel could shine on him. But Pramac Ducati Zarco and Martin had a bonus advantage after finishing 2nd in the Q1 playoffs, they already had tact on those terms. In terms of equalizing everyone’s strength, he showed all his pride and desire and took the opportunity to start first on the grid. ‘s green shoot, you should enjoy the small achievements in that box.Marc Márquez.

Marc Márquez started alone without mentioning the track and not informing him that the wheels he had chosen for his mechanics to follow came out. After the first lap started, the first provisional pole was by Marc Márquez he was already marked at 1’56″995 but it lasted long enough until Miller, Quartararo and Zarco came after him. I did, Paul.

Marc doubled the bet on a 1’55″810 which Zarco accepted, beating the time by 36 in 1000, but on the following lap Marquez was 1 in 74000 ( 1’55″698) regained the provisional pole by a margin. Zarco returned to the pitlane with five minutes remaining.

Already in rhythm, sensation and confidence, the Repsol Honda stayed on track, already breaking the time with 1’55″214, more than half a second ahead of Zarco. Heavy traffic trying to beat Marquez.

They have one last lap to go, but Marc has already cut and Zarco hasn’t improved either. Vinales moved up from his 10th to his 3rd alone, Brad his Binder wore a red helmet in his first two sectors but Marc also failed to beat his Marquez pole. , knocked Vinales off the front row. It will be the first time in MotoGP that a South African from KTM will start from the front row.

Viñales, Martín and Aleix Espargaro are the best contenders for the championship and will start second. From the third mirror Oliveira and the leader Quartararo (from Marc he is 1 “112), from the fourth Marini Pol he was classified with Espargaro and his second pecco bagnaia qHe felt good even if he didn’t change his bike, He finished with a whopping two-inch 159 in Marc Márquez’s era.

Pramac excludes Bastianini

Throughout Q1, they agreed to battle for pole position between Johann Zarco, who was a thousandth out of the top 10 after free practice, and team-mate Jorge Martín, who missed World Championship fourth-placed Enea Bastianini. He added another crash at Motegi and again jeopardized his chances at Motegi by starting from his 15th place grid this Sunday. Alex Marquez his 17th, Alex Rins his 18th and Raul Fernandes he started 22nd before a crash occurred in the final stages of Q1.

grill

first line
1. Marc Márquez (ESP/Honda)
2. Johann Zarco (FRA/Ducati Pramac)
3. Brad Binder (AFS/KTM)
second line
4. Maverick Vinales (ESP/Aprilia)
5. Jorge Martin (ESP/Ducati Pramac)
6. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Aprilia)
third line
7. Jack Miller (AUS/Ducati)
8. Miguel Oliveira (BY/KTM)
9. Fabio Quartararo (FRA/Yamaha)
4th line
10. Luca Marini (ITA/Ducati-VR46)
11. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Honda)
12. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA/Ducati)
line 5
13. Marco Bezzecchi (ITA/Ducati-VR46)
14. Franco Morbidelli (ITA/Yamaha)
15. Enea Bastianini (ITA/Ducati Gresini)
line 6
16. Fabio Di Giannantonio (ITA/Ducati Gresini)
17. Alex Marquez (ESP/Honda-LCR)
18. Alex Rins (ESP/Suzuki)
Seventh line
19. Tetsuta Nagashima (JAP/Honda)
20. Remy Gardner (AUS/KTM-Tech3)
21. Takuya Tsuda (JAP/Suzuki)
line 8
22. Raul Fernandes (ESP/KTM-Tech3)
23. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Yamaha-RNF)
24. Darrin Binder (AFS/Yamaha-RNF)
line 9
25. Takaaki Nakagami (JAP/Honda-LCR)