Maverick Viñales will start third and Marc Márquez will start thirteenth after failing to pass Q1
MADRID, 11 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish rider Jorge Martín (Ducati) has achieved pole this Saturday for the MotoGP races of the French Grand Prix, the fifth round of the motorcycle World Championship, and will lead a first row of the grid in which he will be accompanied by the current champion, the Italian Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) and the Spanish Maverick Viñales (Aprilia), while Marc Márquez (Ducati) failed to pass Q1 and will start thirteenth.
Thus, the Madrid native, leader of the championship (92) with 17 points ahead of ‘Pecco’, signed his second pole of the course after a session in which he suffered a fall, just like his main rival for the title, who had to even take out the fire extinguisher to put out an outbreak of fire and save the engine of your ‘Desmosedici’
“I imagined that to get the pole I had to do 1:29. I felt good, I knew that the second lap was the good one. Let’s see if this afternoon we can get a good start, ‘Pecco’ and I have the pace to make a fast race,” Martín explained to DAZN after the qualifying session.
The first starting line will be completed by Maverick Viñales. Meanwhile, Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia), who also finished in the gravel, will start sixth, while Pedro Acosta (KTM) will start seventh.
After clocking a 1:30.141 on his first lap that put him at the head of the time table, Martín improved his bet to become the first man of the weekend to go under 1:30 (1:29.919), with a record of track. Meanwhile, Bagnaia was less than two tenths behind.
The one from San Sebastián de los Reyes crashed in turn 4 with just over two minutes left in the session, and just a few seconds later, in turn 9, it was ‘Pecco’ who ended up in the gravel. and he was left with no options to beat the Spaniard’s time. Q2 ended with more falls involving Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) and the Australian Jack Miller (KTM).
Among those who stayed in Q1, Marc Márquez (Ducati) will start thirteenth in Le Mans, after being displaced from access positions to Q2 at the last moment by the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia), who managed to sneak in alongside the Italian Enea Bastianini (Ducati).
In addition, Raúl Fernández (Aprilia) will start fourteenth, Alex Rins (Yamaha) will start sixteenth, just ahead of Alex Márquez (Ducati) and Joan Mir (Repsol Honda), seventeenth and eighteenth respectively. Augusto Fernández (KTM) will start twentieth.
