MotoGP: Marquez ends pole drought at Assen
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez took his first pole position of the year by just 0.041s from fellow Honda rider Cal C🔯rutchlow, at Assen on Satཧurday.
Despite holding a 27-point title lead, Marquez had gone sev🌳en events without a pole - his longest barren run since 2009 in the 125cc class - yet was able to triumph in the most hotly-contested qualifying session of the season.
The climax of the sunny 15-minute shootout was so frantic that Johann Zarco moved into pole position on ༒the final lap but still 𝓀pushed down to eighth on the grid!
MotoGP champion Marc Mܫarquez took his first pole position of tౠhe year by just 0.041s from fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow, at Assen on Saturday.
Despite holding a 27-point title lead, Marquez had gone seven even༒ts without a pole - his longest barren run since 2009 in the 125🔴cc class - yet was able to triumph in the most hotly-contested qualifying session of the season.
The climax of the sunny 15-minute shootout wa❀s so frantic that Johann Zarco moved in♑to pole position on the final lap but still pushed down to eighth on the grid!
Marquez took the chequered flag just a fraction behind the Frenchman, but was able to hold on to the🗹 top spot as LCR's Crutchlow, Movistar Yamaha's Valentino Rossi and Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso all lapped within 0.079s of the Repsol rider.
Crutchlow felt he had timed his run to perfection, as many riders sought a tow in th❀e closing stages, while Rossi was delighted to bounce back from a fast accident in final practice.
Yamaha has not won a MotoGP ra🍷ce since Rossi's victory at the circuit one year♐ ago.
Rossi's t💎eam-mate Maverick Vinales will join Dovizioso and Alex Rins on the second rowꦫ of Sunday's grid, all less than two-tenths from pole.
Rins had been a surprise fastest, on a hard r🌸ear tyre, after the first qualifying run before joining his rivals on a soft rear tyre at the end.
Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro and Suzuki's Andrea Iannone will join Z🔜arco on row three, the Frenchman having earlier been forced to take part in Qualifying 1, which he led from Rins.
Jorge Lorenzo will need to f✤ight through the field if he is to claim three race wins in a row after qualifying tenth for Ducati, but just 0.376s from pole. Fellow Desmosedici riders Danilo Petrucci and Alvaro Bautista will join him on the third row.
Most riders used the medium front tyre this afternoon although Vinales, Espargaro, Zarco and Lorenzo ran the so🌌ft on their hot laps.
Rook💖ies Takaaki Nakagami and Hafizh Syahrin performed well in Qualifying 1 with 13th and 15th places, on a day when fellow newcomer Franco Morbidelli broke his hand i꧙n a morning fall and was ruled out of the remainder of the weekend.
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Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the for🅷efront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.