Catalan GP MotoGP: Aleix Espargaró on pole, mocked Pecco Bagnaia. Jorge Martin falls, bad Marc Marquez

GP Catalonia MotoGP: Aleix Espargaró on pole, mocked Pecco Bagnaia. Jorge Martin falls, bad Marc Marquez

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With a lightning-fast lap as time expired, the Spaniard of theAprilia Aleix Espargaró, who has just announced his retirement at the end of the season, took the pole position of the Catalan Grand Prix MotoGP class at the Montmeló circuit, turning in 1’38”190 and mocking for only 31 thousandths the two-time world champion of Ducati Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia.

In Q1 the fastest è Fabio Di Giannantonio, who set the fastest time at the end of the day with his Ducati GP 23 of the VR Racing Team, second è Raul Fernandez with the ’Aprilia Trackhouse. Out of Q2 all the others, including Marc Marquez, fourth with the Team Gresini Ducati, moreover 6 thousandths behind his younger brother and teammate Alex. Among the others, seventh was 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo, who is increasingly in crisis with his Yamaha.

Unbelievable in Q2: Jorge Martin crashes and teammate Franco Morbidelli, who follows him, also ends up on the ground a few meters ahead, obviously no physical consequences for the two. All this è fundamental for the pole, in fact Bagnaia is cancelled the’last attempt of a fast lap and then at the end è Espargaró to take the pole, inflicting a real mockery to the Turinese.

Third at 144 thousandths was placed Brad Binder with the KTM, fourth Pedro Acosta, his brand mate but not team mate, fifth Di Giannantonio, sixth Martin, seventh Fernandez and away all the others. Note that Espargaró and Bagnaia’s teammates, Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini, are last and second-to-last, respectively. At 3 p.m. the sprint race.