MotoGP Austin, Qualifying results
| 1st row | 1. Fabio Di Giannantonio 2:00.136 Ducati |
| 2. Marco Bezzecchi 2:00.329 Aprilia | |
| 3. Pedro Acosta 2:00.485 KTM | |
| 2nd row | 4. Francesco Bagnaia 2:00.563 Ducati |
| 5. Joan Mir 2:00.591 Honda | |
| 6. Marc Marquez 2:00.637 Ducati | |
| 3rd row | 7. Jorge Martin 2:00.696 Aprilia |
| 8. Alex Marquez 2:00.765 Ducati | |
| 9. Luca Marini 2:00.891 Honda | |
| 4th row | 10. Fermin Aldeguer 2:01.014 Ducati |
| 11. Ai Ogura 2:01.419 Aprilia | |
| 12. Enea Bastianini 2:01.477 KTM | |
| 5th row | 13. Raul Fernandez 2:01.228 Aprilia |
| 14. Diogo Moreira 2:01.306 Honda | |
| 15. Johann Zarco 2:01.445 Honda | |
| 6th row | 16. Fabio Quartararo 2:01.553 Yamaha |
| 17. Toprak Razgatlioglu 2:01.745 Yamaha | |
| 18. Brad Binder 2:01.865 KTM | |
| 7th row | 19. Jack Miller 2:01.893 Yamaha |
| 20. Franco Morbidelli 2.02.117 Ducati | |
| 21. Alex Rins 2:02.366 Yamaha |
MotoGP Austin, Qualifying report
Fabio Di Giannantonio is getting a taste for it! After the great pole in Goiânia, the Roman repeats himself and will start ahead of everyone at COTA in Austin as well. The VR46 rider’s time – 2:00.136 – was clearly the fastest: a full two-tenths ahead of Marco Bezzecchi and three ahead of Pedro Acosta, who join him on the front row.
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Bezzecchi, second behind Di Giannantonio as in Goiânia, complains about an obstruction caused by Ai Ogura but is himself sub judice for having blocked Marc Marquez in a Q2 unexpectedly characterized by traffic considering the length of the track. Regardless of the grid composition, today’s qualifying overturns hierarchies that seemed immutable: Di Giannantonio confirms himself as the first Ducati on track, while Marquez’s (on pole here on eight occasions) is the third. The world champion, in fact, is sixth, behind teammate Francesco Bagnaia (also a victim of Ogura’s traffic in the first time attack) and Joan Mir, but clearly has the potential to move up the field in both the Sprint and the GP.
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On the third row Jorge Martin, from whom perhaps more was expected after leading FP2, the Spaniard is joined by Alex Marquez and Luca Marini. At the back, rookies Diogo Moreira and Toprak Razgatlioglu are growing, beating their teammates by a tenth and a half, while Franco Morbidelli (penultimate) struggled.
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MotoGP Austin, Qualifying live
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The schedule
MotoGP returns to the track tonight at 21:00 for the COTA Sprint. Tomorrow at 17:40 the classic ten-minute warm-up, while the third GP of the year is scheduled for 22:00.
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