Jorge Martin wins the pole at Phillip Island front Marc Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia. In the second row the other title candidates: fourth time for Aleix Espargaró and fifth Fabio Quartararo. Very tight qualifying at the 2022 Australian GP, with Bagnaia who immediately set the time trial but in the decisive time trial he was overtaken by Jorge Martin, who took his third pole of the season. The (un)surprising is Marc Márquez, shrewd in his choice of Pecco’s track, but who has been competitive since the start of the weekend.
On the second row will be the Aprilia of a fit Aleix Espargaró, who preceded Quartararo and Johann Zarco. third line to luca mariniin front of the house idol Jack Miller and Marco Bezzecchi. Suzuki top-10 closes Alex Rins. Enea Bastianini will start from the 15th house, after being prevented by Miguel Oliveira in Q1: the Portuguese suffered a three-place grid penalty and a long lap penalty and will start in last position.
Third place on the grid reaffirms the state of form of Bagnaia, and his Ducati, after a not-so-bright Friday but Pecco will start ahead of Quartararo, who had appeared more comfortable on the Australian circuit but where Yamaha suffers less. with the technical gap. The Ducati rider commented on qualifying as follows: “It will be a group race, due to tire wear. It will be necessary to understand the right moment to attack. In Fp4 we did a great job and a good step forward. We solved all the problems from yesterday.”
MotoGP Australia 2022, the starting grid for the race
1 Jorge Martin (Ducati Pramac)
2 Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda)
3 Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Factory)
4 Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia)
5 Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha Factory)
6 Johann Zarco (Ducati Pramac)
7 Luca Marini (Ducati Mooney VR46)
8 Jack Miller (Ducati Factory)
9 Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Mooney VR46)
10 Alex Rins (Suzuki)
11 Alex Marquez (LCR Honda)
12 Maverick Vinales (Aprilia)
13 Pol Espargarò (Repsol Honda) (Q1)
14 Joan Mir (Suzuki) (Q1)
15 Enea Bastianini (Ducati Gresini) (Q1)
16 Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM) (Q1)
17 Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha WithU) (Q1)
18 Darryn Binder (Yamaha WithU) (Q1)
19 Remy Gardner (Red Bull KTM Tech3) (Q1)
20 Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati Gresini) (Q1)
21 Raul Fernandez (Red Bull KTM Tech3) (Q1)
22 Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha Factory) (Q1)
23 Tetsuta Nagashima (Honda LCR Idemitsu) (Q1)
24 Miguel Oliveira (Red Bull KTM) (Q1) * 3 penalty positions
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