News 17 Aug 2014

Brilliant Marquez takes Brno MotoGP pole

Parkes concludes difficult showing in 23rd.

Source: MotoGP.

Source: MotoGP.

Sunday’s MotoGP race at the bwin Grand Prix České republiky will get underway with Marc Marquez on pole, ahead of Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone on row one of the grid.

Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) produced a rapid 1m55.585 lap to take pole number nine of the season at round 11, as his brilliant season continues.

Dovizioso (Ducati Team) matched his Indy qualifying performance in second, with his compatriot and colleague on Ducati machinery Iannone (Pramac Racing) qualifying third – for his second front row start of 2014.

The pressure on Bradley Smith (Monster Yamaha Tech3) has been relieved somewhat by his recent contract extension for 2015 and his good Indy race result and he produced a good Q2 performance to qualify fourth.

The Englishman is joined on row two by the experienced Spanish pair of Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team) and Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP).

A high speed crash in FP4 for Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) meant he went into Q2 with a dressing on the little finger of his left hand. The Italian will head up row three for his 245th premier class race.

Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda MotoGP) and Yonny Hernandez (Energy T.I. Pramac Racing) made it through from Q1 to qualify eighth and 12th respectively. Behind Bradl, Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech3) completes the third row.

Aleix Espargaro (NGM Forward Racing) leads row four, with Cal Crutchlow (Ducati Team) and Hernandez set to line up behind him.

Australian Broc Parkes continues to struggle with set up on his Paul Bird Motorsports PBM entry, qualifying 23rd with a 1m59.581s in the Open class competition.

2014 MotoGP World Championship
Round 11 – Brno, Czech Republic

MotoGP qualifying results:
1. Marc MARQUEZ 1m55.585
2. Andrea DOVIZIOSO 1m55.714
3. Andrea IANNONE 1m55.726
4. Bradley SMITH 1m55.730
5. Dani PEDROSA 1m55.812
6. Jorge LORENZO 1m55.815
7. Valentino ROSSI 1m55.821
8. Stefan BRADL 1m55.871
9. Pol ESPARGARO 1m55.899
10. Aleix ESPARGARO 1m56.090
11 Cal CRUTCHLOW 1m56.129
12 Yonny HERNANDEZ 1m56.622
13. Michele PIRRO 1m57.093
14. Alvaro BAUTISTA 1m57.428
15. Scott REDDING 1m57.557
16. Hiroshi AOYAMA 1m57.984
17. Karel ABRAHAM 1m58.100
18. Leon CAMIER 1m58.635
19. Danilo PETRUCCI 1m58.863
20. Alex DE ANGELIS 1m58.948
21. Hector BARBERA 1m58.968
22. Michael LAVERTY 1m58.968
23. Broc PARKES (AUS) 1m59.581
24. Mike DI MEGLIO N/A

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