2023-06-10 10:07:52
Returnee Enea Bastianini crashed right at the beginning of Q2, while VR46 protégé Marco Bezzecchi set the first target time of 1:45.268 min under the watchful eye of mentor Valentino Rossi. While everyone was strolling around and “Bez” and Co. came back to the pits, Pramac Ducati ace Jorge Martin set a new best time of 1:45.268 minutes.
At the start of his second run, Francesco “Pecco” Bagnaia made gestures of complaining about Marc Márquez, who had apparently disturbed him at Turn 1. The Repsol Honda star, who had just come out of the pit lane, clung to the championship leader’s rear wheel unperturbed. Bagnaia completed the next lap and stormed into pole position with a time of 1:44.855 minutes – at the same time an all-time lap record. Marc Márquez stayed close to 0.078 seconds and thus secured 2nd place on the grid.
Ducati sporting director Paolo Ciabatti told MotoGP reporter Jake Appleyard immediately after qualifying: “I don’t really want to say too much about what Marc is doing. But it looked like he was clearly a hindrance to Pecco. Because he looked when he came out of the pit lane, he saw Pecco and took a slow corner. He probably threw Pecco off concentration. I hope the race stewards will do something, otherwise we don’t really understand what the rules are. Anyway, we’re pretty happy with pole position.”
Marc Márquez, on the other hand, described in Parc Fermé: “To be honest, I didn’t wait for Pecco this time. I came out of the pits and was at Turn 1, he came along on a fast lap but decided to pull out next to me and talk to me. But at that moment I said: ‘Thanks, now I have the chance to slipstream!’ I knew that when you came out of the pits, the tires were new and not up to temperature. If he had pushed on the lap, I wouldn’t have been able to follow him. So the opportunity arose to follow Pecco. I did it and achieved the goal – although the goal wasn’t actually the front row, but the top 9.”
Alex Márquez finished third, but the Gresini-Ducati rider was moved three places behind in the grid of Sunday’s race at the Italian GP because of his “overambitious manoeuvre” in the first lap of the French GP.
Jack Miller, who, like Alex Márquez, took the detour via Q1, will then move up to the front row. The second Red Bull KTM factory rider Brad Binder, on the other hand, is only 10th on the grid after a crash five minutes before the end of Q2.
MotoGP result Q2, Mugello (06/10):
1. Bagnaia, Ducati, 1:44.855 min
2. Marc Marquez, Honda, +0.078 sec
3. Alex Márquez*, Ducati, + 0,152
4. Miller, KTM, + 0,331
5. Martin, Ducati, +0.413
6. Bezzecchi, Ducati, +0.435
7. Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia, + 0.525
8. Zarco, Ducati, +0.772
9. Kidneys, Honda, + 0.847
10. Binder, KTM, + 0,876
11. Marini, Ducati, + 1,264
12. Bastianini, Ducati, +2.029
The rest of the starting lineup:
13. Vinales, Aprilia, 1:45.591 min
14. Morbidelli, Yamaha, 1:45,754
15. Quartararo, Yamaha, 1:45,755
16. Nakagami, Honda, 1:45,860
17. Pirro, Ducati, 1:46,002
18. Oliveira, Aprilia, 1:46,003
19. Di Giannantonio, Ducati, 1:46,170
20. Raul Fernandez, Aprilia, 1:46.347
21. Augusto Fernández, KTM, 1:46.359
22. Savadori, Aprilia, 1:47.244
23. Folger, KTM, 1:47,806
*= Grid penalty for Sunday (from grid position 3 to 6)
MotoGP result FP, Mugello (06/10):
1. Bagnaia, Ducati, 1:46.314 min
2. Marini, Ducati, + 0.145 sec
3. Quartararo, Yamaha, + 0,177
4. Morbidelli, Yamaha, +0.208
5. Miller, KTM, + 0,241
6. Zarco, Ducati, +0.279
7. Martin, Ducati, +0.408
8. Alex Márquez, Ducati, + 0,465
9. Oliveira, Aprilia, + 0.465
10. Viñales, Aprilia, +0.483
11. Brad Binder, KTM, + 0,577
12. Kidneys, Honda, + 0.589
13. Marc Marquez, Honda, +0.608
14. Bastianini, Ducati, +0.717
15. Aleix Espargaró, Aprilia, + 0.718
16. Bezzecchi, Ducati, +0.784
17. Nakagami, Honda, +0.797
18. Di Giannantonio, Ducati, +0.863
19. Augusto Fernández, KTM, + 0.869
20. Pirro, Ducati, + 0.946
21. Savadori, Aprilia, + 1,512
22. Raúl Fernández, Aprilia, + 1,717
23. Folger, KTM, + 2,784
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