Marc Marquez signs on pole from another planet to try for a long-awaited victory with Ducati

All eyes were on him after he completely dominated the Aragon GP practice session, including setting a circuit record. Marc Marquez For classification. Cervera’s didn’t fail when it mattered. Winning his second pole position It was the 94th year of his sports career since he joined Ducati. But it is no longer a matter of whether he achieved it, but how he achieved it. He stopped the clock in 1:46.766, eight tenths better than second-placed Pedro Acosta and third-placed Pecco Bagnaia, respectively.

For the first attempt, all drivers started with a new front half and a soft rear. Q2 got off to a rough start with Jorge Martin crashing at Turn 5. So the Pramac rider was forced to work against the clock for the rest of the classification. Marquez set the pace with a time of 1:47.478Six tenths faster than Acosta and a second faster than Bagnaia.

And on the second try, that’s when Márquez had no choice: with everyone struggling to get close to the Spaniard, the eight-time world champion shaved seven tenths off his own time, stopping the clock in 1m46.766s. An incredible pole.

The closest one to come was Pedro Acosta just got through Q1 and had a 1 in 840,000 time on his final attempt.On the title race between S. Pecco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin: The Italian also won the duel by coming in third, 8.08 seconds behind.The fall was devastating for the Spaniard, who will start the race in fourth place, just 36,000th of a time behind the world championship leader.

Alex Marquez rounded out the top five ahead of Franco Morbidelli and Brad Binder, who also started in Q2. The negative note was clearly Aprilia. The team from Noale was closest on Friday but things didn’t go so well for them early on Saturday. Aleix Espargaro will start in 11th place and Maverick Viñales in 12th.

Zarco finished his first race in 10th place, behind the Trackhouse Aprilius of Oliveira and Raul Fernández.

Acosta advances to Q2, Bastianini KO’d

The first quarter had some important surprises and things were very tense until the very end. Starting with the elimination of Enea Bastianinifor the third time in the World Cup. The Ducati rider was the last winner of the 2022 Aragon GP, ​​but he was not comfortable at any point during the weekend. I came in 14th place.half a second slower than the time of Binder and Acosta, who advanced to Q2 for KTM.