Quartararo comes back from crash to take pole at Aragon
Fabio Quartararo brushed off the pain from his FP3 high-side crash to storm to a fourth MotoGP pole of the year in Aragon.
The Frenchman hurt his left leg and hip that forced him to limp heavily around the garage between runs.
Quartararo put up a lap of a 1m47.076secs late in Q2 that just beat Maverick Vinales. So up at the front, Quartararo will be joined on the front row by Vinales, the Yamaha rider no doubt pleased to be up towards the front again, and Cal Crutchlow – his third front row since COTA 2019.
Franco Morbidelli was 4th on his Yamaha ahead of Jack Miller.
Title contender Joan Mir was sixth, the Spaniard – only 10 points behind Quartararo in the standings.
More to follow…..
Qualifying Results
Pos. | Num. | Rider | Nation | Team | Bike | Time | Behind | Gap |
1 | 20 | Fabio QUARTARARO | FRA | Petronas Yamaha SRT | Yamaha | 1’47.076 | 0.000s | 0.000s |
2 | 12 | Maverick VIÑALES | SPA | Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 1’47.122 | 0.046 | 0.046 |
3 | 35 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | GBR | LCR Honda CASTROL | Honda | 1’47.305 | 0.229 | 0.183 |
4 | 21 | Franco MORBIDELLI | ITA | Petronas Yamaha SRT | Yamaha | 1’47.317 | 0.241 | 0.012 |
5 | 43 | Jack MILLER | AUS | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 1’47.413 | 0.337 | 0.096 |
6 | 36 | Joan MIR | SPA | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 1’47.679 | 0.603 | 0.266 |
7 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | JPN | LCR Honda IDEMITSU | Honda | 1’47.759 | 0.683 | 0.080 |
8 | 9 | Danilo PETRUCCI | ITA | Ducati Team | Ducati | 1’47.924 | 0.848 | 0.165 |
9 | 41 | Aleix ESPARGARO | SPA | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 1’47.988 | 0.912 | 0.064 |
10 | 42 | Alex RINS | SPA | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 1’48.035 | 0.959 | 0.047 |
11 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | SPA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 1’48.189 | 1.113 | 0.154 |
12 | 44 | Pol ESPARGARO | SPA | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 1’48.202 | 1.126 | 0.013 |
13 | 4 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | ITA | Ducati Team | Ducati | 1’47.752 | 0.147 | 0.015 |
14 | 33 | Brad BINDER | RSA | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | KTM | 1’47.853 | 0.248 | 0.101 |
15 | 27 | Iker LECUONA | SPA | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | KTM | 1’48.005 | 0.400 | 0.152 |
16 | 5 | Johann ZARCO | FRA | Esponsorama Racing | Ducati | 1’48.068 | 0.463 | 0.063 |
17 | 63 | Francesco BAGNAIA | ITA | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 1’48.386 | 0.781 | 0.318 |
18 | 88 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | POR | Red Bull KTM Tech 3 | KTM | 1’48.431 | 0.826 | 0.045 |
19 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | GBR | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | Aprilia | 1’48.556 | 0.951 | 0.125 |
20 | 53 | Tito RABAT | SPA | Esponsorama Racing | Ducati | 1’48.558 | 0.953 | 0.002 |
21 | 6 | Stefan BRADL | GER | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 1’49.166 | 1.561 | 0.608 |