Source: MotoGP.

Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo sent the Spanish fans into rapture by setting a 1m37.910s, the only time anyone has ever been under the 1m38s mark on two wheels at the Spanish circuit, beating Marc Marquez’s previous record from last year by over two-tenths of a second.

Despite track temperatures reaching over 50 degrees the Spaniard, showing renewed determination in Jerez, led from the outset and never looked like missing out on pole. Marc Marquez will start from second on the grid after riding through the pain once more with his broken finger to finish 0.390s behind Lorenzo.

Ducati Team’s Andrea Iannone (+0.558s) outshone his teammate to start from the front row, while Pol Espargaro was the leading satellite rider on the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 M1 and will start from the head of the second row.

Current Championship leader Valentino Rossi (+0.722s) will start the race from fifth, with the Team Suzuki Ecstar GSX-RR of Aleix Espargaro (+0.728s) only six-thousandths of a second further back in sixth.

CWM LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow heads the third row in front of the second Ducati Team GP15 of Andrea Dovizioso and Pramac Racings Yonny Hernandez.

Bradley Smith completes the top ten, ahead of Scott Redding (11th) and Danilo Petrucci (12th).

Earlier it was the Pramac Racing duo of Petrucci and Hernandez who made it through from Q1, while Hector Barbera on the Avintia Racing Ducati will start the race from 13th on the grid as the leading Open class rider.

Jack Miller qualified in 22nd position and acknowledged afterwards that he was still trying to adapt to riding the Spanish circuit on a MotoGP bike.

The Australian had to settle for a final position of 22nd on the grid, just over two seconds off pole pace, and revealed the team would be working hard before Sunday’s race to try and resolve some rear grip issues.

The reigning Moto2 World Champion Tito Rabat took his first pole position of the season ahead of Alex Rins and Jonas Folger in Jerez.

Estrella Galicia 0,0 Marc VDS Racing’s Rabat showed that he has recovered from his dip in form that has affected him so far this season, to set a 1’42.874 despite the searing heat.

With temperatures reaching over 55 degrees and affecting grip levels, his time was even more impressive as it was just under two-tenths of a second off the Moto2 lap record set by Stefan Bradl in 2011.

The man who currently sits second in the Championship standings, rookie Alex Rins on the Paginas Amarillas HP40 Kalex, will start from the front row as he finished 0.305s seconds behind Rabat in his best qualifying effort so far this season.

AGR Team’s Jonas Folger (+0327s) missed large swathes of the session with a faulty lean sensor, yet still set a time good enough for third.

Thomas Luthi (+0.385s) on the Derendinger Racing Interwetten Kalex was in fourth, ahead of the Idemitsu Honda Team Asia machine of Takaaki Nakagami, who will start from fifth despite crashing out of the session.

Speed Up Racing’s Sam Lowes had his worst qualifying session of the season so far and is down in sixth, ahead of the German Sandro Cortese and the returning Axel Pons.

Current Championship leader Johann Zarco will start from the third row in ninth after crashing during the session, while Julian Simon completes the top ten with less than one second separating the first eighteen riders.

Australian in the field Anthony West rode his QMMF Racing Team Speed Up to 24th on the grid, 1.592s off the pole-setting pace of Rabat.

Fabio Quartararo claimed his maiden Moto3 pole position in a two-way battle with Danny Kent during qualifying at the Circuito de Jerez.

Estrella Galicia 0,0’s French rider won the fight with Danny Kent on the Leopard Racing Honda to end up on top of the time sheets.

Kent was just 0.120s behind Quartararo, after being held up on his final flying lap by Zulfhami Khairuddin when it appeared like he would set the fastest time of the session.

Completing the front row is Miguel Oliveira (+0.193s) on the first of the KTM Red Bull Ajo bikes, ahead of his teammate Brad Binder (+0.389s) in fourth.

Phillip Oettl put the Schedl GP Racing KTM fifth on the grid, with Karel Hanika setting a time good enough for sixth, before a massive highside at the end of the session left the Czech rider having to go to the Medical Centre with elbow pain.

Enea Bastianini ended the session in seventh ahead of his compatriots Romano Fenati and Niccolo Antonelli, who make it an all-Italian third row, with Quartararo’s teammate Jorge Navarro completing the top 10.

CIP rider Remy Gardner lowered his previous lap time significantly during the last practice at Jerez. At the end, the gap from the pole position was closer than ever at 1.3s, slotting him into 26th on the tight grid.

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