by VALERIO BARRETTA
MotoGP Silverstone, Qualifying Results
| 1st row | 1. Aleix Espargaro 1:57.309 Aprilia |
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| 2. Francesco Bagnaia 1:57.517 Ducati |
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| 3. Enea Bastianini 1:57.693 Ducati |
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| 2nd row | 4. Jorge Martin 1:57.734 Ducati |
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| 5. Alex Marquez 1:57.817 Ducati |
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| 6. Brad Binder 1:57.950 KTM |
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| 3rd row | 7. Marc Márquez 1:58.098 Ducati |
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| 8. Maverick Vinales 1:58.137 Aprilia |
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| 9. Peter Acosta 1:58.312 KTM |
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| 4th row | 10. Fabio DiGiannantonio 1:58.371 Ducati |
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| 11. Jack Miller 1:58.736 KTM |
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| 12. Marco Bezzecchi 1:59.671 Ducati |
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| 5th row | 13. Franco Morbidelli 1:58.599 Ducati |
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| 14. Raul Fernandez 1:58.608 Aprilia |
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| 15. Miguel Oliveira 1:58.655 Aprilia |
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| 6th row | 16. Johann Zarco 1:58.730 Honda |
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| 17. Augustus Fernandez 1:59.012 KTM |
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| 18. Fabio Quartararo 1:59.092 Yamaha |
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| 7th row | 19. Luke Marini 1:59.097 Honda |
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| 20. Joan Mir 1:59.468 Honda |
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| 21. Takaaki Nakagami 1:59.822 Honda |
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| 8th row | 22. Remy Gardner 1:59.887 Yamaha |
MotoGP Silverstone, Qualifying Report
A spectacular Aleix Spargaro takes pole position at Silverstone, demolishing the track record. The Spaniard – 1:57.309 – confirms his feeling with the historic British track, ahead of Francesco by more than two tenths Bagnaia and gets his third pole position start of the season. Great performance by #41 especially in the last sector (where he gains about a tenth and a half on “Pecco”), the Aprilia rider is involuntarily favored by the fall in the last run of his teammate Maverick Vinales which cancels out the last efforts of the first 12 on the grid.
“Pecco” settles for second place, 208 thousandths behind Espargaró. A time built in the initial part of Q2, while in the last run the world champion goes long at the first corner, being hindered by a strip of adhesive tape hanging from his helmet: it would not have been easy to do better than Espargaró anyway. Third place for the other Ducati Factory of Enea Bastianini (+0.384), he also has to lift his foot in the last attempt.
Fourth place for Jorge Martin, who however showed during the rest of the weekend that he has the pace to fight with the best, second row also for Alex Marquez and Brad Binder. Marc Marquez is instead slowed down in the final by Marco Bezzecchi: if in the first run he managed to follow Bagnaia, at the end of the second lap the #93 tries again but has to deal with the VR46 riders, who fight in the complex of fast Maggotts-Becketts-Chapel curves to stay in line with Bagnaia. With “Pecco” out of the game due to the adhesive tape problem, the trio loses the slipstream of the #1 and Bezzecchi ends up hindering Marquez, who visibly takes it out on the #72.
Vinaleswho fell on turn 2 at the end, cannot improve and will have to start eighth ahead of Acosta, Di Giannantonio, Miller and Bezzecchi. Franco Morbidelli (13th) and Fabio Quartararo, a melancholic 18th, were excluded from Q1.
MotoGP Silverstone, Live Qualifying
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The program
MotoGP returns to the track this afternoon at 4pm, when the first points of the weekend will be awarded in the ten-lap Sprint. Tomorrow the Grand Prix will start at 2pm.
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