MotoGP: Quartararo bags Le Mans pole

Arm pump surgery to home Grand Prix pole position. Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) is France’s hero on a Saturday once more after a phenomenal couple of qualifying sessions at the SHARK Grand Prix de France, a mostly dry Le Mans track saw the Frenchman set a 1:32.600 on his final flying lap to beat teammate Maverick Viñales by 0.081s.

Spanish GP winner Jack Miller (Ducati Lenovo Team) is on the front row, his teammate and World Championship leader Francesco Bagnaia is forced to start 16th.

Pole looked set to go to Marc Marquez as spots of rain appeared in the latter stages, but the top six changed right at the death as a number of riders found lap time improvements in the conditions.

Qualifying Results

Pos	No.	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1m32.600s	0.000s
2	12	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1m32.681s	0.081s
3	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1m32.704s	0.104s
4	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1m32.766s	0.166s
5	5	Johann Zarco	Ducati	1m32.877s	0.277s
6	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	1m33.037s	0.437s
7	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1m33.120s	0.520s
8	44	Pol Espargaro	Honda	1m33.150s	0.550s
9	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1m33.391s	0.791s
10	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1m33.867s	1.267s
11	32	Lorenzo Savadori	Aprilia	1m34.258s	1.658s
12	10	Luca Marini	Ducati	1m34.265s	1.665s
13	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1m43.418s	10.818s
14	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1m43.422s	10.822s
15	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1m43.523s	10.923s
16	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1m43.530s	10.930s
17	9	Danilo Petrucci	KTM	1m43.857s	11.257s
18	27	Iker Lecuona	KTM	1m44.324s	11.724s
19	73	Alex Marquez	Honda	1m45.146s	12.546s
20	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	1m45.590s	12.990s
21	33	Brad Binder	KTM	1m45.911s	13.311s
22	23	Enea Bastianini	Ducati	1m46.123s	13.523s