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Aragon MotoGP: Marc Marquez secures third consecutive pole

Marc Marquez will start his third consecutive MotoGP race from pole after setting the fastest time in qualifying at Aragon

The Spaniard waited until the final moments of the session to smash the lap record with a time of 1m47.804s.

Jorge Lorenzo was the first to beat Casey Stoner's record time and held provisional pole until Stefan Bradl and Marquez demoted him in quick succession.

Lorenzo soon picked up the pace but with his works Yamaha down on outright speed along the straight in the final sector, he was unable to reclaim his place at the top of the timesheets.

Dani Pedrosa joins team-mate Marquez on the front row in third, he was fastest in the final free practice session and looks strong ahead of Sunday's race.

Valentino Rossi starts from fourth alongside Bradl, who dropped down the order during the flurry of activity towards the end of the session, with Alvaro Bautista claiming sixth for Gresini.

Tech 3's Cal Crutchlow and Bradley Smith share the third row of the grid with Andrea Dovizioso.

Smith was forced to participate in Q1 after struggling during practice, but alongside Andrea Iannone was able to escape into Q2 and found sizeable gains to capture eighth.

Pramac's new recruit Yonny Hernandez had threatened to upstage Iannone towards the end of Q1 when he temporarily went second quickest, but starts from 13th.

Newcomer Luca Scassa and returnee Damian Cudlin were 22th and 24th for Cardion AB and Paul Bird respectively.

Pos Rider             Bike                    Time        Gap
 1. Marc Marquez      Honda                   1m47.804s
 2. Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                  1m47.814s  +0.010s
 3. Dani Pedrosa      Honda                   1m47.957s  +0.153s
 4. Valentino Rossi   Yamaha                  1m47.962s  +0.158s
 5. Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda               1m48.128s  +0.324s
 6. Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda           1m48.302s  +0.498s
 7. Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha           1m48.653s  +0.849s
 8. Bradley Smith     Tech 3 Yamaha           1m48.854s  +1.050s
 9. Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati                  1m49.219s  +1.415s
10. Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia           1m49.348s  +1.544s
11. Nicky Hayden      Ducati                  1m49.428s  +1.624s
12. Andrea Iannone    Pramac Ducati           1m50.094s  +2.290s
13. Yonny Hernandez   Pramac Ducati           1m50.685s  +2.881s
14. Hiroshi Aoyama    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki    1m50.995s  +3.191s
15. Danilo Petrucci   Ioda-Suter-BMW          1m51.030s  +3.226s
16. Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia           1m51.297s  +3.493s
17. Colin Edwards     Forward FTR-Kawasaki    1m51.327s  +3.523s
18. Claudio Corti     Forward FTR-Kawasaki    1m51.519s  +3.715s
19. Hector Barbera    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki    1m51.552s  +3.748s
20. Michael Laverty   PBM-Aprilia             1m51.639s  +3.835s
21. Bryan Staring     Gresini FTR-Honda       1m52.102s  +4.298s
22. Luca Scassa       Cardion Aprilia         1m52.305s  +4.501s
23. Lukas Pesek       Ioda-Suter-BMW          1m52.989s  +5.185s
24. Damian Cudlin     PBM-Aprilia             1m53.521s  +5.717s

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