Romano Fenati found the best lap of the track while once again riding around the Red Bull Ring alone to claim pole position for the Moto3 Austrian Grand Prix, round eleven of t༺he 🌼championship.

The Sterilgarda Max Racing Team rider earned the fifth pole of his career with his determined routine of going it alone in qualifying.  Pole came with a best lap of 1m 35.850s s🦩et near th🧜e end of the session. It is his first time in the top slot of the grid since he last gained pole back at the Silverstone round of 2017.

It marks a two p💯lace improvement from the Italian, who started third 🔴on the grid last week in Spielberg, which he translated to a podium finish.

Tatsuki Suzuki was the latest victim of some wild riding from Gabriel Rodrigo and was in provisional pole when he was collected by the Argentine rider. His time held firm as he spent most of the sessionꩲ in the medical centre and only dropped under Fenati, 0.071s slower.

The Japanese rider will b🐻e able to take his second place on the grid for SIC58 Squadra Corse after being declared fit at the end♎ of the session.

Rodrigo finished the session eighth, but already has a pit lane start to his name for his earlier crash in FP3, which left ❀Ryusei Yamanaka (CarXpert PruestelGP) declared unfit to ride after sustaining a fractured left humerus when hit by the Gresini rider.

The final front row ওslot went to his team-mate Jeremy Alcoba who left it t𒐪o his last lap to move up from 17th in the session.

Jaume Masia ran with fellow Red Bull KTM Ajo rider rookie Pedro Acosta once again. This time the tactic worked out better for him than for his championship leading team-mate - Masia finished fꦜourth. Acosta was initially doing the better of the two but ended Q2 in seventh, a dip in form after looking to have got a handle on qualifying after taking fourth in the same session last week, from where he went on to win the race.

Polesitter last weekend at the same track, Deniz Oncu survived an early🌜 trip wide and off track to come back and put in a strong final run. That saw him momentarily take third before being displaced by Alcoba and Masia at the chequered flag for Red Bull KTM Tech 3 for an eventual fifth.

Ayumu Sasaki recovered from his fall earlier in the day to clꦿaim a solid sixth on the second Red Bull KTM Tech 3 entry.

Dennis Foggia se🐬t the ninth best time for Leopard, with Stefano Nepa the best of the riders to graduate from Q1, taking a top ten start for BOE Owlride.

Rookie Izan Guevara, who came into qualifying quickest at Spielಞberg after topping FP3 with the best time set over the last two weekends at the track, wa♚s eleventh for Santander Consumer GasGas. His FP3 time remained just quicker than Fenati’s pole lap.

It was a tough day at the office for the Petronas Sprinta team. John McPhee was 15th qui🔜ckest and the best of t🌜he duo.

Amid s🐎wirling rumours of where he may end up next season, Darryn Binder, who set the pace on Friday, was 18th and last in Q2.

The only Austrian rider in the paddock, Maximilian Kofl🦩er, finished Q1 in 10th for 24th on the grid ahead of his 💫home grand prix.

David Salvador was unlucky not to get a run in Q2, he was pushed down to fifth❀ in the first half of qualifying at the last second.

He fared much better than the more senior rider at Rivacold Snipers, Andrea Migno. Receiving several team communications to remind him that time was short, the Italian was never quite on the pace in the session. Twi𝓰ce he found himself leading around riders for them to gain a slipstream advantage at the end of the lap, including Riccardo Rossi who moved into Q2 with the top time and went on to qualify 12th. That Pushed Migno down to seventh in Q1 - which equates to 21st on the grid.

Niccolo A🃏ntonelli misses the ra🙈ce through injury (broken wrist) after his crash last weekend. He is replaced at Avintia by Elia Bartolini (26th).

Leopard’s Xavier Artigas remains a🌺bsent following a positive Covid test and is self isola♛ting.