Bagnaia signs pole and puts pressure on Quartararo in MotoGP

MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The French rider Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) will face his first match-ball for the MotoGP title this Sunday from the thirteenth starting position in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, where his main rival, the Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) He will start from pole ready to break your hopes.

In his first decisive moment of the course, that of Nice, which leads ‘Pecco’ by 52 points in the general, was not able to advance to Q2 at Misano, so he will be forced to climb places from the middle of Grill.

In fact, it should not yield more than two points to a Bagnaia that aspires to everything in transalpine lands. Even so, the Turin rider also had to go through Q1, to later dominate the final run, sign his fourth consecutive pole and command a front row made up entirely of Ducati riders.

Australian Jack Miller secured second place on the grid, while Valentino Rossi’s brother, Italian Luca Marini, will start third. Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda), fourth, will be the first Spanish rider, and Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda), winner in Las Américas and who suffered two crashes during the session, will start seventh leading the third row.

In addition, Iker Lecuona (KTM) will start the test eighth, Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) will do it eleventh and Jorge Martín (Ducati), twelfth. Among those who stayed in Q1, Àlex Rins (Suzuki) will start fourteenth, just ahead of Àlex Márquez (Honda), Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) seventeenth and the current world champion, Joan Mir (Suzuki), nineteenth.