Misano MotoGP qualifying
By: Matt Beer
Summary
Status: Stopped
Vinales: "Today I feel great, every time I go on the track I feel better on the track, with more confidence. The team did a great job, I'm so pleased to be strong again and be on the pole, the team deserves it."
Dovizioso: "I'm so happy. Before qualifying I didn't feel so good but when we put the new tyre on for qualifying, I feel really competitive - and I knew I was able to make a good laptime. And I did a really good laptime. This confirms our speed for the race - now we have to wait for the conditions for tomorrow."
Marquez: "I was riding quite good, but I did a few mistakes that lap and I said, okay, I will prepare the next lap well. But on that corner with the wind I go wide a little bit, I touch the white line and I lose the front."
Very good signs for Ducati, too. Dovizioso comfortably on the front row on a track that wasn't supposed to suit the Italian bike terribly well.
So, this is a bit of a surprise. Marquez has all weekend looked like he had something up his sleeve in terms of pace, but even if he'd completed that lap, it was far from a given he would've matched Vinales.
Q2 results: 1 Vinales; 2 Dovizioso; 3 Marquez; 4 Crutchlow; 5 Lorenzo; 6 Zarco; 7 Pedrosa; 8 Petrucci; 9 A. Espargaro; 10 Bautista; 11 Pirro; 12 Abraham.
Instead, it's Maverick Vinales delivering for Yamaha on a weekend where he is its sole factory rider. This is Vinales' first pole - his first front row start, even - since Mugello.
Marquez's crash was a high-speed front-end washout at the Turn 13 right-hander. He's unhurt but he's not on pole position.
Where has this come from? Andrea Dovizioso, 1m32.616s, provisional pole with 90 seconds left on the clock.
Lorenzo's next lap sees him up on Marquez's pole time after two sectors... but he loses too much time over the remaining corners and doesn't improve. Second runs now beginning in earnest for everybody.
Q2 order at halfway point: 1 Marquez; 2 Vinales; 3 Pedrosa; 4 Dovizioso; 5 Petrucci; 6 A. Espargaro; 7 Zarco; 8 Lorenzo; 9 Crutchlow; 10 Bautista; 11 Pirro; 12 Abraham
We've got a fight on our hands - Marquez is on a properly quick lap but VInales is improving as well. Pedrosa now up to second behind Vinales, 0.172s off.
Marquez scrapping another lap. Not clear if he's made a mistake or trying to stop Michele Pirro from following him.
Marquez is being egregiously followed by a number of riders, so he duly scraps his first flying lap.
Lorenzo has monopolised Misano pole position in the last three years. He's not been terribly far off this weekend, but you'd expect it's Marquez's to lose.
Q2 line-up: Dovizioso, Zarco, Petrucci, Abraham, Bautista, Vinales, Pedrosa, Crutchlow, Aleix Espargaro, Pirro, Marquez, Lorenzo.
Q1 results (we hope): 1 Bautista; 2 Abraham; 3 Barbera; 4 Miller; 5 Baz; 6 Folger; 7 P. Espargaro; 8 Rabat; 9 Redding; 10 Rins; 11 Iannone; 12 Smith; 13 Lowes
Jonas Folger posts a 1m33.287s at the chequered flag, he's into Q2. Bautista can't improve and misses out by 0.015s to Miller.
Lowes has emerged on his second bike and has put a time on the board. Currently slowest by some margin.
Bautista and Miller still on course to make Q2, although Baz has now lapped 0.063s off Miller and is going quicker.
Suzuki's earlier pace currently looking a bit of a false dawn. Iannone very nearly secured an automatic Q2 spot, but he didn't - and is currently 10th in Q1, one place behind team-mate Alex Rins.
Sam Lowes' rather miserable, crash-filled Misano weekend continues as he takes a tumble at the end of his first push lap.
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