MotoGP Emilia Romagna GP: Bagnaia beats Martin to pole, Marquez crashes

Bagnaia maintains his edge over Martin at Misano as he outguns him in qualifying

Francesco Bagnaia beat MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin by 0.214s to claim pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia trailed Pramac rival Martin by over three tenths of a second after the first runs, after the Spaniard broke the circuit lap record with a 1m30.245s.

However, after returning to the track on a new soft rear tyre, two-time champion Bagnaia managed to post a time of 1m30.031s on his final effort to make it back-to-back pole positions in the Misano double-header.

Martin was improving on his previous effort in the first half of a lap, but a slow third sector came to be his undoing, meaning he was unable to better his previous effort in qualifying and had to settle for second.

Third place in qualifying went to the other works Ducati bike of Enea Bastianini, the Italian posting a 1m30.564s lap in the closing minutes to book himself the final spot on the front row.

KTM’s Brad Binder came through from the opening segment of qualifying to take fourth place on the grid, despite having only a single soft tyre left for his time attack.

Binder’s performance was backed up by Tech3 GasGas’s Pedro Acosta in fifth place, while VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi took sixth in the best of the Ducati GP23 bikes.

As was the case in the San Marino GP earlier this month, Marc Marquez suffered an early crash in qualifying, the Gresini rider tucking the front into Turn 3.

Despite managing to return to the track on his second bike, which he had shunted earlier on Saturday in final practice, he was unable to improve on his first flying lap and qualified a distant seventh.

Maverick Vinales was Aprilia's best representative in eighth, while Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo put in a solid performance to take ninth ahead of Pramac rider Franco Morbidelli.

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix - Qualifying

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Cla	Rider	#	Bike	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h	Speed Trap
1	F. Bagnaia Ducati Team	1	Ducati	8	1'30.031		168.981	301
2	J. Martin Pramac Racing	89	Ducati	8	+0.214 1'30.245	0.214	168.581	304
3	E. Bastianini Ducati Team	23	Ducati	8	+0.533 1'30.564	0.319	167.987	299
4	B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33	KTM	8	+0.605 1'30.636	0.072	167.853	302
5	P. Acosta Tech 3	31	KTM	8	+0.700 1'30.731	0.095	167.678	303
6	M. Bezzecchi Team VR46	72	Ducati	8	+0.806 1'30.837	0.106	167.482	305
7	M. Marquez Gresini Racing	93	Ducati	7	+0.849 1'30.880	0.043	167.403	297
8	M. Viñales Aprilia Racing Team	12	Aprilia	8	+0.878 1'30.909	0.029	167.349	298
9	F. Quartararo Yamaha Factory Racing	20	Yamaha	9	+0.890 1'30.921	0.012	167.327	295
10	F. Morbidelli Pramac Racing	21	Ducati	7	+0.901 1'30.932	0.011	167.307	301
11	A. Espargaro Aprilia Racing Team	41	Aprilia	8	+1.006 1'31.037	0.105	167.114	300
12	M. Oliveira Trackhouse Racing Team	88	Aprilia	8	+1.083 1'31.114	0.077	166.973	304
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Cla	Rider	#	Bike	Laps	Time	Interval	km/h	Speed Trap
1	B. Binder Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	33	KTM	7	1'31.070		167.053	298
2	M. Oliveira Trackhouse Racing Team	88	Aprilia	8	+0.076 1'31.146	0.076	166.914	300
3	F. Di Giannantonio Team VR46	49	Ducati	8	+0.215 1'31.285	0.139	166.660	298
4	R. Fernández Trackhouse Racing Team	25	Aprilia	8	+0.332 1'31.402	0.117	166.447	298
5	L. Marini Repsol Honda Team	10	Honda	8	+0.358 1'31.428	0.026	166.399	297
6	J. Mir Repsol Honda Team	36	Honda	8	+0.380 1'31.450	0.022	166.359	301
7	J. Zarco Team LCR	5	Honda	8	+0.431 1'31.501	0.051	166.267	300
8	A. Fernandez Tech 3	37	KTM	6	+0.484 1'31.554	0.053	166.170	297
9	J. Miller Red Bull KTM Factory Racing	43	KTM	8	+0.625 1'31.695	0.141	165.915	300
10	T. Nakagami Team LCR	30	Honda	9	+0.991 1'32.061	0.366	165.255	295
11	A. Marquez Gresini Racing	73	Ducati	7	+1.262 1'32.332	0.271	164.770	299
12	A. Rins Yamaha Factory Racing	42	Yamaha	0
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