The Spaniard will start ahead of the other Desmosedicis of Bezzecchi and Martin, Pecco on the third row with Bastianini
Will be Marc Marquez starting in pole position in the Sprint Race It is in the Spanish GPfourth stage of MotoGP World Championship 2024. The Spaniard from the Gresini team ended a wet Q2 1’46”773keeping a great guy’s VR46 behind him Marco Bezzecchi (+ 0”271) and the championship leader’s Pramac Jorge Martin (+ 0”608). Three Ducatis from three different teams on the front row. In second gear they will sprint Binder with the KTM, By Giannantonio with the other VR46 e Alex Marquez with the other Gresini. Only 7th and 9th time instead for the official Ducatis of Bagnaia and Bastianiniwho will start from the third row together with the other Pramac of Morbidelli (8th).
After savoring the podium again in the Austin Sprint, another great little satisfaction arrived for Marquez: first pole aboard a Ducatiagain in front of everyone at the start afterwards over a year (the last time was in Portugal in the debut stage of the ’23 World Cup). An undisputed domination of the eight-time world champion on his home track, which emerged already in the free practice sessions at the beginning of the morning and confirmed in the official ones. Now the wait is all for the Sprint in the afternoon and for the race on Sunday, when however it will almost certainly be raced in the dry.
To fight him there will be, literally, a Ducati platoon: seven, in addition to his, in the next eight positions on the grid. To meet the two officers, however, you have to go down a few positions: both Bagnaia is Bastianini they struggled a bit to find the right rhythm with the water on the track, but they will count on the sun that was already peeking out during qualifying to make up for it in the afternoon event. The timing of Friday, in this sense, gives us hope.
The white fly at the start will be represented by the official KTM Brad Binder4th, while that of the GasGas team lacked sharpness Pedro Acosta: the Spanish talent is slipped in the scree while traveling on excellent timeshe managed to restart, but not to find the right feeling again and he closed 10th. The fourth row will open in front of the Aprilias Viñales and Espargarowho were unable to find the right confidence with the rain.
However, the other two KTMs failed to pass the Q1 cut Miller and the test driver Pedrosa: the Australian will start 15th and will close the fifth row behind the Honda LCR of Zarco (13th) and at the Aprilia Trackhouse in Oliveira (14th), the Spaniard instead opened the sixth in front of Raul (with the other Aprilia Trackhouse) e Augusto Fernandez (Ktm GasGas).
Nightmare qualification, however, for Honda and Yamaha: Mir and Marini they will start from 20th and 22nd place respectively with their HRCs, both behind the test driver Bradl (19th), while Quartararo and Rins they will close the grid starting from 23rd and 25th position with their M1s.
