Valencia MotoGP: Maverick Vinales take pole with new lap record as Francesco Bagnaia beats Jorge Martin

Maverick Vinales has taken pole position for Aprilia while Francesco Bagnaia out-qualified Jorge Martin at the Valencian MotoGP. 
Maverick Vinales, Aprilia MotoGP Valencia 2023
Maverick Vinales, Aprilia MotoGP Valencia 2023

With the pressure on, Francesco Bagnaia made the perfect start to Q1 as he went quickest with a time of 1:29.6𝔍90s.ꦰ 

But with plenty of red sectors lighting up the timingsheets, Alex M▨arquez then leapfrogged Bagnaia while Augusto Fernandez narrowly mi💙ssed out on second spot.

At the start of the second and final time attack run, Bagnai☂a, who was still second behind Marquez, beg🦋an lapping quicker than his fellow Ducati rider.

The reigning world champion finished his lap by nearly setting a new lap record as he🎶 regained top spot. 

Bagnaia the♚n smashed the lap record on his next lap as he all but secured a Q2 place ahead of Marquez. 

Arguably the most important battle for pole this♌ season, Q2 in Valencia started with Brad Binder and Jorge Martin going toe-to-toe for P1.

The KTM rider got the upper hand initially although his ti♏me was still slower than Bagnaia’s Q1 effort. 

Bagnaia, who began the session with a used tyre, then exited pit lꦇane with six minutes to go with a new soft rear tyre.

And the world champion didn’t waste any time in showing his potential as he ☂went quickest. 

But Bagnaia, who narrowly missed out on 🍌a sub 1m 29s lap again, saw Vinales pip him to pole as he did what Bagnaia couldﷺn’t.

Giving it everything to beat Bagnaia, Martin made several mistakes 🐷and instead had to settl🦋e for fifth. 

There were lat✅e crashes for both Marquez brothers as Marc went do✃wn briefly before Alex slid off his Ducati.

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