Marc Marquez beats Alex for Thai MotoGP pole: “Now it’s the important part”
Marc Marquez and brother Alex lock o🐻ut the top two places on the grid in Buriram MotoGP qualifying.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez will start his first MotoGP races as a 🐻Ducati Lenovo rider from pole position at Buriram.
Fastest in pre-season testing, then Friday practice, Marquez’s pole was not a surprise, but he admitted to feeling pressure ahead of 𝓡his first qualifying in ‘red’.
“Super happy to start 🍌in this way,” said Marquez, seဣeking to end a four-year title drought after moving to the factory Ducati team.
“When you arrive in an offic𒀰ial team you have pressure, especially if you are in t♔he best team of the moment.
“ไBut I feel super good all weekend, I’m riding in a good way. And let’s see.
“Now it’s the mostไ important part: The Sprint and [GP] Race. We will try to do a good start, keep our level. We have a good pace but in races 🌠anything can happen.
“I’m also super happy to share the f𒁏ront row with my brother.ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ”
Marc was only 0.146s quicker than young𝔉er brother and former Gresini Ducati team-mate Alex, wওho confirmed his p🐬re-season form was not a mirage.
“The main job today was the front row in this heat to avoid problems 🍸with the front tyre,” smiled Alex. “These two guys [Marc and 💝Bagnaia] have something slightly more but you never know.
“For sure I will fight but we need to build a solid base i🌠n the first race weekend.”
Ma🍬rc’s new team-mate Francesco Bagnaia salvaged a front row after battling through Qualifying 1, the legacy of an incorrect yellow flag and then obstruction from Franco Morbidelli.
Eager to save a second new tyre for Q2, Bagnaia remained in the pits for the closing stages of Qualifying 1, watching on pensively as๊ others🧜 tried to knock him from the top.
“The first white hair on my head comes todayꩲ!” he joked. “It was not an easy choice but it was the correct choice because the second tyre helped me a lot to be on the front row.
“It was just a shame to be in Qualifying 1 after what happened yesterday. But we are on th🔥e front row and we k🅘now we are faster on pace than we are on one lap…”
Bagnaia was 0.173s behind Marc Marquez.
Jack Miller joined Bagnaia in breaking out of Qualifying 1, then took advantage of a tow behind the Italian to ✨delight Pramac Yamaha with fourth place on the grid in Qualifying 2.
Rookie Ai Ogura w❀as arguably the hero of the session, finishing fifth for Trackhouse, just 0.352s from pole, and top Aprilia in his very first Mot𝐆oGP qualifying!
Franco Morbidelli will complete row two for VR46 but has a three place grid 🌠penalty to serve on Sunday (but not the Sprint) for holding up Bagnaia yesterday.
Pedro Acosta was top KTM in seventh ahead of Ogura’s team-mate Raul F🍌ernande🥂z.
Factory Aprili🔯a star Marco Bezzecchi and Honda’s Joan Mir both crashed in the closing stages, leaving them to start ninth and eleventh respectively and bringing out yellow flags that dampened the end of the session.
Monster Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo ꦑwas tenth with countryman Johann Zarco twelfth for LCR Honda.
The 13-lap Thai MotoGP Sprint race starts at 3pm local time, when temperatures are set to hit 38 degrees🔯.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury i💫ssue🌠s.