2025 French MotoGP: Fabio Quartararo denies Marc Marquez for home pole

Back-to-back MotoGP poles for Fabio Quartararo

Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 French MotoGP
Fabio Quartararo, Yamaha Factory Racing, 2025 French MotoGP
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Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo snatched a second successive MotoGP pole from Marc Ma💟rque🀅z with a new lap record in a thrilling French Grand Prix qualifying.

Having topped Friday with a new all-time lap record, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez looked like he 🔥would be hard to beat for pole when qualifying got underway.

Sitting on top with a new lap record as the session ticked through its final seconds, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo produced a sen💎sational final lap of 1m29.324s to snatch top spot by 0.118s.

Ending a pole drought dating back to 2022▨ last time out in Spain, Quartararo had to wait just two weeks for another in almost identical circumstances to Jerez.

Championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez completed th👍e top three on his Gresini Ducati, while Pecco Bagnaia was🎃 sixth on the sister factory team Ducati.

Marc Marquez set the benchmark at 1m30.065s o🔜n his opening lap of the 15-minute Q2,🌳 which was the fourth-best time of the weekend at that point.

He followed that up with a new all-time l𒐪ap record of 1m29.442s to go almost seven tenths clear of the field.

Qua🌞rtararo was the first to challenge this, getting Ducati rider Marquez’s advantage down to 0.361s, and then again to 0.350s to end his f🥂irst run.

Gresini rookie Fermin A🦹ldeguer put in a 1m29.776s with just under four minutes to go to jump up to second, but couldn’t advance on this time as he crashed at Turn 3 just seconds l🐻ater.

With just🌌 under two minutes to go, Alex Marquez almost dethroned his older brꦬother with a 1m29.571s.

Marc Marquez couldn’t improve on his penultimate lap, while Quartararo produced a 1m29.324s on his final attem🌳pt to snatch pole.

Marquez did get across the line in time to start one more lap and was fast through 🎉sector one, before rolling 🐬out of it.

Aldeguer’s crash proved costly as he was shuffled off the front row inꦏto fourth ahead of Tech3 KTM’s Maverick Vinales.

Bagnaia completed row two, 0.723s �𒐪�off pole position, while Marco Bezzecchi was seventh on his factory Aprilia.

🃏Jack Miller was 0.867s off Quartararo’s time on the Pramac-run Yamaha, with Franco Morbidelli nin♓th for VR46 Ducati despite a late crash.

Raul Fernandez came through Q1 on his Trackhouse Aprilia to qualify 10th, while a late crash for Q1 pacesetter Johann Zarco left theꦓ LCR Honda rider 11th.

Pedro A𒐪costa was 12th on his factory KTM, with team-mate Brad Binder narrowly missing a Q2 place by 0.010s.

A crash for Ai Ogur🐼a led to a brief red flag in Q1. The Japanese rider was unharmed and rejoined the sessio♛n to qualify 19th for Trackhouse.

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