After setting new Sachsen🧸ring MotoGP lap records in both FP2 and FP3, Ducati’s Bagnaia wasted no time in producing a time that would take some serious beating. 

With Aleix Espargaro initially going quickest on a time of 1:20.413s, Bagnaia went top by over three tenths before running through the gravel at turn ﷽one🍸.

Despite ꦐhis breathtaking lap, Bagnaia’s time was soon under threat as team-mate Jack Miller made it a factory Ducati 1-2 - half a tenth off the Italian. Making it an all-Ducati provisional front row, Jorge Martin recovered from a poor FP4 to go P3. 

With the second Q2 runs underway, Bagnaia was one of the first to set a flying lap, and what an effort it was as he set anoth💙er 1m 20s flat. 

Not done there, Bagnaia’s next lap around was even better 🌟as he became the first rider to go underneath the 1m 20s barrier. 

Espargaro then moved up to second, however, the Aprilia rider was close to two ✱tenths off Bagnaia, as was Fabio Di Giannantonio who went third. 

With Bagnaia proving too fast to catch, a brilliant battle for second took place as 𓆉Quartararo replaced Espargaro. 

Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco had other ideas though, as he went within a tenth of Bagnaia. But after setting personal bests in sectors two and three, Quartararo managed to kn🐼ock his fellow countryman back down to third, a position he kept through to🐠 the checkered flag.

KTM’s MotoGP qualifying nightmare continues at Sachsenring

After showing strong pace in FP4, Miguel Oliveira was a clear-cut favourite to challenge for a top tw😼o spot in Q1, as were Ducati riders Enea Bastianini, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi. 

But while Oliveira’s opening run left him in the bottom four, Di Gian✃nantonio proved his recent 🧔improvements were no fluke as he jumped to the top of the leaderboard. 

Despite his top time coming under pressure on l🦂ap #2, Di Giannantonio reasserted his dominance at the front by setting a time of 1:20.307s - four tenths quicker than Pol Espargaro. 

After failing to find pace on🙈 his opening stint, Be🅠zzecchi soon changed that as he went second quickest. 

Oliveirꦛa, who was in dire-need of finding performance, did so as he jumped up to third late on. However, it 🎶wasn’t enough to dislodge the two rookies who ultimately held on for places in Q2.

Pol Espargaro was the last rider to sꦐet a time good enough to challenge Bezzecchi for P2, but the Repsol Honda rider who confirmed he was in severe ‘rib pain’ after day-one, missed out by just +0.004s. 

Brad Binder, who ha𝓡s mad✱e a habit of getting brilliant starts recently, will need to do so again after qualifying 15th.