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So, here are your Q2 runners:
Quartararo
Vinales
Morbidelli
Miller
Rossi
Marquez
Aleix Espargaro
Dovizioso
Mir
Rins
Petrucci
Pol Espargaro
Quartararo
Vinales
Morbidelli
Miller
Rossi
Marquez
Aleix Espargaro
Dovizioso
Mir
Rins
Petrucci
Pol Espargaro
Of course, this weekend offers up Marquez his first chance at wrapping up his sixth MotoGP world title. But his focus for now will be firmly on securing his 10th pole of the season.
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Marquez has had a bruising weekend so far after a massive crash in FP1 
So now we turn our attention towards the fight for pole position. Quartararo ended Friday fastest on the combined times, and was strong in FP4.
Crutchlow trundles back to his pit box and looks visibly cheesed off with that. He knows how close he came to getting through.
Seems those crisis talks really worked for Petrucci. His 1m30.695s is the fourth-fastest lap of the entire weekend.
Nakagami will start alongside his LCR team-mate Crutchlow in 14th, with Bagnaia, Iannone, Oliveira, Rabat, Lorenzo, Abraham, Kallio and Syahrin completing the grid.
Petrucci and Espargaro will graduate to the pole shootout session, with Crutchlow missing out by just 0.013 seconds in the end.
Crutchlow was all out of shape into the final corner and that completely scuppered the lap. He won't be in Q2.
This lap has gone away from Crutchlow. Espargaro may just be safe.
Checkered flag
Crutchlow is marginally up through sector one, but has lost a fraction in sector two.
Crutchlow has time for one more lap. Espargaro has sat up at Turn 1, so it's all or nothing for Crutchlow's Q2 hopes now.
Espargaro demotes Crutchlow.
The Pramac rider just tucked the front tipping into the right-hander. A lot of riders have criticised that corner this weekend, which of course caught Marc Marquez out in a big way on Friday.
Crash
Bagnaia has crashed at Turn 7.
Crutchlow gets it all out of shape into the last corner but does move up to second.
Stopwatch
Petrucci goes top with a 1m30.695s. Big lap that.
Petrucci is on a quick lap here. He has three tenths in his pocket heading through sector two.
After a brief lull, the track is a hive of activity again.
Petrucci is yet to put in a representative lap down in 11th. After a tough Aragon weekend, Petrucci called a crisis meeting with Ducati to find a way out of his current slump.
Eight minutes to go and the first runs have come to an end. Pol Espargaro is fastest from Crutchlow, Bagnaia Nakagami and Oliveira.
Crutchlow leaps up to second. The LCR rider is suffering with tendinitis this weekend, so holding onto a Q2 place in this session will be tricky.
Stopwatch
Espargaro moves the goalposts now with a 1m31.230s. Not a bad effort for someone who had surgery of a wrist fracture just under two weeks ago.
Stopwatch
Now Bagnaia shoots to the top of the times with a 1m31.416s. Ducati stablemate Petrucci is 10th after his first effort after running off at the final corner.
Stopwatch
Which is immediately beaten by Pol Espargaro with a 1m31.887s,
Stopwatch
Lorenzo sets the initial pace in Q1 with a 1m32.402s.
Lorenzo is first out on circuit. It's been a miserable weekend thus far for the Honda rider, so progression into Q2 is unlikely.
Green flag
Q1 is underway.
These will be your runners in Q1 coming up shortly:
Petrucci
Bagnaia
Crutchlow
Nakagami
Pol Espargaro
Iannone
Abraham
Rabat
Oliveira
Lorenzo
Kallio
Syahrin
Petrucci
Bagnaia
Crutchlow
Nakagami
Pol Espargaro
Iannone
Abraham
Rabat
Oliveira
Lorenzo
Kallio
Syahrin
That was actually the first fully dry MotoGP session of the day, after FP3 was hit by rain - though some dry laps were managed in the closing stages. Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso led that particular outing.
Fabio Quartararo has concluded the fourth free practice session fastest of all after a late time attack on the soft rear tyre ahead of his appearance in Q2 in the not too distant future.
Green flag
Good morning and welcome to live coverage of the MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix qualifying session.
By: Matt Beer
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