The ultimate minutes of the Czech GP qualifying session offered drama as Francesco Bagnaia took his first pole place of the 2025 MotoGP season.
After the primary run, Marc Marquez was slightly below a tenth of a second forward of the Yamaha of Fabio Quartararo on the prime of the sphere. Bagnaia hadn’t even registered a time following an issue on the primary run, however as soon as underway, ‘Pecco’ dislodged the Spaniard from the highest spot.
Bagnaia had been caught in Q1 earlier than a miraculous late enchancment managed to place him into the Q2 session.
Marco Bezzecchi was the primary rider so as to add curiosity to the session when he went down at Flip 1. With yellow flags displayed, the riders would solely get one shot to enhance their lap instances.
It appeared like Marquez would safe the 74th pole place of his profession as he was nearly three tenths up on his closing lap, which was greater than sufficient to take pole. Nevertheless, Johann Zarco had gone down heading into the final sequence of corners, and he was shortly joined by Marquez, who slid off the observe.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Workforce
Picture by: Ducati Corse
Bagnaia secured pole with Marquez in second, whereas Quartararo took benefit of the grippy circumstances that the Yamaha bike appears to love and lined up third.
Fourth fell to a fortunate Bezzecchi, who ought to have been pushed additional down the order following his off, whereas Joan Mir and Raul Fernandez lined up in fifth and sixth respectively.
Pedro Acosta could not do higher than seventh on the KTM, which was a rocket on the straights, with Alex Marquez behind in eighth. 2020 polesitter Zarco was ninth following his crash with Jack Miller in tenth. Enea Bastianini and reigning champion Jorge Martin rounded out the highest 12.
In thirteenth was a upset Fabio Di Giannantonio, who had loads of success on the Brno circuit in junior classes previously, whereas Pol Espargaro’s sideways heroics on the Tech3 KTM have been solely sufficient for 14th on the grid.
The opposite manufacturing unit Yamaha of Alex Rins and Luca Marini have been fifteenth and sixteenth, with Miguel Oliveira in seventeenth. Fermin Aldeguer was unexpectedly low down in 18th, whereas 2020 Czech GP winner Brad Binder solely managed nineteenth to equal his worst qualifying place of the 12 months.
Takaaki Nakagami, Ai Ogura, and Yamaha’s wildcard of Augusto Fernandez rounded out the grid.
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