Aleix Espargaró will start fifth
MADRID, 25 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Italian rider Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati) has been awarded pole for the MotoGP race of the Dutch Grand Prix, the eleventh round of the Motorcycle World Championship that takes place at the Assen Circuit, and will command a front row in the He will be accompanied by the championship leader, the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha), and the Spanish Jorge Martín (Ducati), while Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) will start fifth.
In ‘La Catedral’, ‘Pecco’ once again demonstrated his strength at one lap this course, where he has achieved four pole positions -Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands- and all with track records. In total, he already has 17 first starting positions in the World Championship and ten in the premier category.
One thousandth of the transalpine leader Quartararo qualified, who will start with three positions ahead of the Catalan Aleix Espargaró, who will have to work hard this Sunday to prevent the 34-point advantage between the two in the general from increasing.
In a day without the presence of Pol Espargaró (Repsol Honda), who resigned from continuing to participate in Assen due to injuries sustained in a crash last week at the Sachsenring, the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (KTM) and the South African Brad Binder (KTM) managed to sneak into the final fight for pole.
Jorge Martín (Ducati) was the first to break Maverick Viñales’ pole record by stopping the clock in 1:31.708, a mark that was worth it until there were four minutes left in the session, when Bagnaia ‘flew’ to put his 1:31.504 at the top of the timesheets.
An inopportune crash at turn 3 prevented the San Sebastián de los Reyes driver from improving the transalpine -who signed his second consecutive pole-, and only the Nice driver came close to doing so, one tenth on his penultimate lap before making a save on his last try.
In addition to Martín’s third place and Aleix’s fifth, Alex Rins (Suzuki) was guaranteed a ninth starting place and Maverick Viñales (Aprilia), eleventh. Among those who did not make it through Q1, Joan Mir (Suzuki) was slowed down by a crash and will start fourteenth, Alex Márquez (Honda) will start nineteenth and Raúl Fernández (KTM), penultimate.