Who saw that coming? Marc Marquez banished a difficult pre-season for Honda to take the first pole of the 2023 MotoGP season at the Portuguese Grand Prix with a new lap record ⏱️ Meanwhile Fabio Quartararo could only manage 11th for Yamaha⬇️
As part of MotoGP’s radical format shake-up for 2023, qualifying now takes place on Saturday morning and sets the grid for both the main grand prix on Sunday and this afternoon’s new sprint contest.
He heads reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia and his Pramac Ducati counterpart Jorge Martin, while Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo’s weekend has been thrown askew after he could only managed 11th. KTM’s Jack Miller set the early pace in Q2 with a new lap record of 1m37.549s, which put him over three tenths clear of the field at that point.
On the first flying lap of his second run, Marquez clicked through the first sector just 0.071s outside of the fastest lap but pulled out as he entered sector two. Bagnaia’s final lap was scuppered by coming across traffic, leaving him in second ahead of Pramac’s Martin.
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