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Sachsenring MotoGP qualifying

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Q2 result:

1 Marquez
2 Petrucci +0.160s
3 Pedrosa +0.647s
4 Crutchlow +0.787s
5 Folger +0.908s
6 Lorenzo +1.081s
7 Pol Espargaro +1.100s
8 Aleix Espargaro +1.224s
9 Rossi +1.367s
10 Dovizioso +1.401s
11 Vinales +1.521s
12 Bautista +1.666s
Petrucci doesn't improve, he has to settle for second as Marquez does find a bit more time and increases his pole margin from 0.019s to 0.160s.
Pedrosa stays third, Crutchlow's lap tails off and he stays fourth.
Rossi improves to ninth. Vinales is still down in 11th.
Stopwatch
But Petrucci is even faster than Crutchlow at the first split.
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Very quick first sector from Crutchlow too.
Pedrosa, Lorenzo and Pol Espargaro are the main men on quick laps into the final half-minute.
Crash
That's bizarre: on-board replies are just showing Vinales and Marquez managing to make contact. They both stayed upright but there was no shortage of puzzled gesticulating.
Stopwatch
Petrucci goes faster again with a 1m27.4s.
And now the sun is out. There's still plenty of water and spray around, but it'll be steadily drying.
Lorenzo is faring pretty well by Lorenzo-in-the-rain standards - he's sixth.
Petrucci's margin is 0.596s over Pedrosa - he's in such brilliant form at the moment.
Vinales and Rossi are down to 10th and 12th.
It's Petrucci, Pedrosa, Folger, Marquez, Pol Espargaro now.
Stopwatch
Folger now grabs the top spot from Petrucci, but very brief before Petrucci takes it back and Pedrosa moves into second.
Rossi is only 10th at the moment.
Now a flurry of changes: Pol Espargaro to second for a moment but he's quickly beaten by Folger then Pedrosa.

Crutchlow and Marquez end up fifth and sixth ahead of Vinales and Dovizioso.
Stopwatch
Petrucci's 1m28.671s is a huge 1.5s faster than Lorenzo in second place, with everyone else still finding their way.
News
In an unusual move, Pramac's just announced - in the middle of Q2 - that it's keeping Petrucci for 2018.

He celebrates by going fastest.
Green flag
Here we go for Q2. Lorenzo first out, which is probably for the best given how much he's hated these conditions lately.
Baz and Smith go fourth and fifth behind Miller.
Petrucci remains quickest.
Stopwatch
Pol Espargaro goes to second! He knocks Miller back to third.
Checkered flag
The chequered flag is out.
Miller's headed to the pits. He's obviously confident second is in the bag - but that might be optimistic.
Good laps brewing from Pol Espargaro,Smith, Baz and Iannone.
It's still Petrucci and Miller hanging on to the Q2 places.
KTM's extra rider Kallio improves to fifth, then drops to sixth as team-mate Espargaro goes third.
Rain
The rain did stop but now it's quite emphatically un-stopped and is lashing down.
Stopwatch
Petrucci goes fastest, 0.279s ahead of Miller, pushing Iannone down to third.
Baz improves but only to fourth.
Good laps coming in from Miller, Barbera, Pol Espargaro and Baz. Yep, all of them.
Zarco has now got up to ninth.
Barbera and Baz are back to fourth and fifth.
Stopwatch
Another rush of near-simultaneous place changes at the top - Miller goes fastest ahead of Iannone, Petrucci went from first to third in about a second.
Rins was fastest for a moment but is already back to eighth.
Incessant changes of top spot as more riders get comfortable. It's Petrucci now fastest from Miller, Pol Espargaro, Iannone, Barbara, Baz and Kallio.
Zarco's taking his time to get up to speed, he's slowest of all right now.
Stopwatch
But things are going to change quickly in this weather, and Rins and Baz now move into the provisional Q2 places.
Stopwatch
Pol Espargaro is fastest following the initial laps, with a 1m30.361s that puts him ahead of Miller by 0.069s.

By: Matt Beer

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