Yamaha boss Massi꧒mo Meregalli says the brand “could not expect” Fabio Quartararo’s “impossible” pole lap on Saturday at the ꦓ2025 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix.

On a 100% pole streak in 2025, the hot favourite coming into 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Saturday 🐎morning’s qualifying at Jerez was world championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez.

The Ducati rider set a new lap record on his first flying lap in Q2, which briefly put him almost a second clear of the field, before 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo cut that advantage to just over 0.4s.

As the session neared its conclusion, Marquez was still on pole but Quartararo has got to within 0.042s of the Ducati rider’s time and dug deep on his final effort to produce a 1m🎉35.610s to snatch top s꧒pot by just 0.033s.

It marked Quartararo and Yamaha’s first pole since the 2022 Indonesian GP, 1134 days ago, and snapped Marquez’s 100% qualifying recor🍨d in 2025.

Commenting on the lap immediately after the chequered flag, Yamaha boss Meregalli said:“Unbelievable. Honestly we could not ex🍨pect what he did.

“Yesterday we starteꦿd thinking we could do a good race. Impossible to think about the pole posit🔯ion.

“Now, I 𓃲need to get back that taste because it was a long time ago.

“But I’m really happy for everybody, because believe me we really put in a lot of effort the last few yꦇears.

“And this is the best way to repay this job. Let’s see what the race will ꦿbring, but at least when you start from there the race is different.”

Quartararo was fast all of Friday at Jerez on single-lap times as well as race pace🤪, but ad💖mitted afterwards that he was confused as to why his Yamaha was so strong on a low-grip surface.

He branded his pole ♏a “special emotion” for the team, though concedes even heading the field will still make his grand prix “a bit difficult” on the M1.

“It’s a really spec🌃ial feeling, special emotion for everybody,” Quartararo said in parc ferme.

“We know that the poi꧟nts are in the sprints and the race.

“But, you know, already to feel that close atmosphere to🌳 all these guys back is s🐻omething amazing.

“Hopefully we ꦇcan make a great fight in the sprint. In the race we know it’s a little bit difficult, but super happy to ♍be here. We are working hard and the work will pay off.”

Quartararo’s 20th career pole comes at a track that has been kind to him over the years, with it the scene of his first Moto3 qualifying success in 2015, as wel📖l as his first in MotoGP in 2019 and his maiden victory inꦦ the premier class in 2020.

For Yamah🀅a managing director Paolo Pavesio, Quartararo’s pole lap shows “things are coming together” f💝or the M1.

“It’s n𝄹ot points yet, but those moments are important and we aꦇre building it two races in a row on the front row,” he said.

“It’s good, it’s fantastic for Fabio, but it’s a💯lso fantastic for a♊ll the people who are working on the project. We are catching up.

“[The lap] was pretty good, eh? No, it’s fantastic because it was standard conditio𝓡ns, everybody had the same opportunity.

“Fabio is a champion, you need a good bike to perform like this, so we are happy becau💯se things are c💮oming together.”