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#AustralianGP | Maverick Vinales dominates to conquer pole position!

Maverick Vinales was the man to beat in Australia and he did not disappoint the prediction; the Spaniard took a stunning pole position ahead of a superb Fabio Quartararo and Marc Marquez, while Valentino Rossi ended 4th

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#AustralianGP | Maverick Vinales dominates to conquer pole position!
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At the end, after a chaotic Saturday, we had even a Sunday that was even more chaotic than yesterday, but luckily weather conditions were good enough to have MotoGP qualifying session after Warm Up one. Not the ideal situation for the major part of the riders, but surely a really fun one for the fans who were watching, considering that qualifying session is just four hours before the race.

Q1 was a thrilling moment as long as we had Fabio Quartararo ready to shine after the crash had on Friday that forced him to not ride on that day, but that meant Fabio did not have a good time to join Q2 immediately, so he had to face a complicate first session of qualifying where also Johann Zarco wanted to show his skills in his comeback Grand Prix.

French rookie from Yamaha was the main candidate to get top spot in Q1 and so it was, with Petronas rider who made an impressive difference from the others, riding under the 1.29 (the only one able to do it) putting himself on top of the table of the first session of qualifying. In a first moment it seemed that Johann Zarco could join his compatriot, but Andrea Iannone was really good on taking benefit from Quartararo’s slipstream and made a fast lap to put himself in second just behind Q1 leader.

1 20 Fabio QUARTARARO FRA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 337.5 1'28.949  
2 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 339.6 1'29.555 0.606 / 0.606
3 36 Joan MIR SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 339.6 1'29.712 0.763 / 0.157
4 5 Johann ZARCO FRA LCR Honda IDEMITSU Honda 340.7 1'30.008 1.059 / 0.296
5 63 Francesco BAGNAIA ITA Pramac Racing Ducati 341.8 1'30.075 1.126 / 0.067
6 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 346.1 1'30.165 1.216 / 0.090
7 44 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 341.8 1'30.180 1.231 / 0.015
8 82 Mika KALLIO FIN Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 335.4 1'30.495 1.546 / 0.315
9 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 338.6 1'31.179 2.230 / 0.684
10 55 Hafizh SYAHRIN MAL Red Bull KTM Tech 3 KTM 330.3 1'31.285 2.336 / 0.106
11 53 Tito RABAT SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati 334.4 1'31.941 2.992 / 0.656

Main candidate for pole position was then Maverick Vinales after being impressively fast during free practices and he did not disappoint us; the Spaniard was fast from the first minutes of the session being able to made an impressive rhythm and a stunning fast lap which projected him on top of the table and no one snatched him that first position, with “Top Gun” who even improved his lap time in his last attempts of qualifying.

Fabio Quartararo gave everything to get another pole position but did not manage to do it despite a stunning last lap where he tried to steal Vinales’ pole position, but the French had to give up and finish in second, a fantastic result overall anyway considering that on Friday he did not even take part of FP2! First row is completed by Marc Marquez, who will start from 3rd alongside Yamahas.

A good qualifying for Valentino Rossi as well, with the Italian who put himself in 4th opening second row with a fast last attempt, followed by Danilo Petrucci and Cal Crutchlow, with Aprilia duo who will start from 7th and 8th with Aleix Espargaro ahead of his teammate Andrea Iannone. Home hero Jack Miller is 9th followed by Andrea Dovizioso, Franco Morbidelli and Alex Rins.

1 12 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 339.6 1'28.492  
2 20 Fabio QUARTARARO FRA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 337.5 1'29.043 0.551 / 0.551
3 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 340.7 1'29.216 0.724 / 0.173
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 338.6 1'29.243 0.751 / 0.027
5 9 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 342.9 1'29.339 0.847 / 0.096
6 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda CASTROL Honda 346.1 1'29.535 1.043 / 0.196
7 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 341.8 1'29.558 1.066 / 0.023
8 29 Andrea IANNONE ITA Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia 344.0 1'29.581 1.089 / 0.023
9 43 Jack MILLER AUS Pramac Racing Ducati 346.1 1'29.615 1.123 / 0.034
10 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 345.0 1'29.667 1.175 / 0.052
11 21 Franco MORBIDELLI ITA Petronas Yamaha SRT Yamaha 336.5 1'29.716 1.224 / 0.049
12 42 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 342.9 1'29.947 1.455 / 0.23

 

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