MADRID, 24 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Italian rider Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati) has won pole position, with a circuit record, for the MotoGP races of the Grand Prix of the Netherlands, the eighth round of the Motorcycle World Championship, in a qualification in which Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia), sixth, he was the best Spaniard and in which Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) suffered his fourteenth crash of the course.
At Assen, Bezzecchi became the fifth different driver to take pole this season and the thirteenth different poleman in the last 13 premier class races at ‘La Catedral’. With a fabulous 1: 31.472, he signs his second first starting position in MotoGP and the sixth of his life.
Championship leader Francesco ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia (Ducati) will start second and Luca Marini (Ducati) will complete an all-Italian front row. The Aprilias of Aleix Espargaró and Maverick Viñales will start sixth and seventh respectively, Álex Márquez (Ducati) will start ninth and Jorge Martín (Ducati), who lost control of his bike at the beginning of Q2, will start tenth.
Things were worse for Marc Márquez. The man from Cervera, who will start seventeenth, starred in another disastrous day in Assen, where he already finished on the gravel on Friday. During his time in Q1, with just over a minute to go in the session, he got confused looking back at turn 1 and ate the wheel of Italian Enea Bastianini (Ducati), crashing. In total, he already accumulates 14 falls this year.
They did manage to pass the Frenchman Johann Zarco (Ducati) and the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia) to Q2, where the South African Brad Binder (KTM) set the first reference time while the Sachsenring winner, Jorge Martín (Ducati), fell and ran to get his second motorcycle.
Maverick Viñales (Aprilia) and Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati) rose to the top of the time table, with ‘Pecco’ warning. Four minutes away, the Frenchman Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha) improved his times, but Bezzecchi soon regained his privileged position with a circuit record (1:31.472), improving almost two tenths on the time from Bagnaia’s pole position last year.
Among those who failed to advance to Q2, Raúl Fernández (Aprilia) will start the race sixteenth, just ahead of Marc Márquez, while Augusto Fernández (KTM) will start twenty-first and Iker Lecuona (Honda), twenty-second.