Zarco on Silverstone pole, bruised Espargaro salvages sixth

Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco will begin MotoGP’s British Grand Prix from pole place after topping a qualifying session the place Aleix Espargaro bounced again from a follow crash to qualify sixth.

Espargaro suffered a daunting crash at Farm curve throughout FP4 lower than an hour earlier than the beginning of Q2 and needed to be stretchered away from the monitor. He was left with “contusions on each ankles” however no fractures, which means he was allowed to participate in qualifying.

Large excessive aspect for @AleixEspargaro

We hope he’s okay however he is leaving the monitor by stretcher #BritishGP 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/gmq0d0bRY8

— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) August 6, 2022

Subsequently, he hobbled again onto his bike in Q2 and after a gentle first run on used tyres, Espargaro smashed the lap file together with his last flying lap, setting the primary sub-1m58s lap of the Silverstone weekend.

That put him on provisional pole, however he was finally shuffled right down to the tip of the second row in sixth place.

Zarco was the quickest of the 5 riders to beat him as he earned his second pole place of the season and the eighth of his thus far winless top-flight profession.

He was 0.098s forward of Maverick Vinales, who achieved his finest qualifying outcome since becoming a member of Aprilia final 12 months.

The entrance row will likely be accomplished by Jack Miller, who edged championship chief Fabio Quartararo by simply 0.007s.

Yamaha’s Quartararo, who must take a long-lap penalty on Sunday, regarded visibly pissed off after the session. He’ll begin alongside Dutch TT winner Francesco Bagnaia and his closest championship rival Espargaro.

Marco Bezzecchi, who earned his first premier class podium at Assen, progressed via Q1 after which claimed seventh on the grid in Q2 for the VR46 Ducati squad.

He’ll share the third row with fellow Q1 graduate Enea Bastianini and Zarco’s team-mate Jorge Martin, whose pole problem confronted after robust early Q2 tempo.

Luca Marini made it two VR46 riders within the prime 10 and he’ll be joined on the fourth row by Suzuki riders Alex Rins and Joan Mir.

Not one of the KTM or Honda riders managed to make it to Q2 with manufacturing facility KTM riders Miguel Oliveira and Brad Binder the closest in thirteenth and 14th.

They had been adopted by Bastianini’s team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio, Tech3 KTM rider Remy Gardner and Alex Marquez, who crashed coming into the Flip 8/9 Vale chicane.

LCR Honda’s Marquez appeared angered by Bezzecchi following the crash after the 2 jostled for monitor place earlier than Marquez misjudged the braking for the chicane and ended up within the gravel.

It is a great distance again to the pits from there! 👀@alexmarquez73 drops his @lcr_team Honda over the far aspect of the circuit 💥#BritishGP 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/UTsbsyoRED

— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) August 6, 2022

Marquez managed to get again on monitor and he certified as Honda’s prime rider in seventeenth place forward of manufacturing facility riders Stefan Bradl and Pol Espargaro.

Quartararo’s Yamaha team-mate Franco Morbidelli suffered his tenth straight Q1 exit as he struggled to twentieth forward of the second LCR Honda of Takaaki Nakagami who crashed in FP4.

Raul Fernandez suffered engine points in FP4 and certified eight tenths adrift of team-mate Gardner in twenty second place.

He will likely be joined on the again row of the grid by RNF Yahama duo Darryn Binder and Andrea Dovizioso.

Qualifying Outcomes

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