Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez scored another record this afternoon with his pole position lap for tomorrow’s grand prix, at the track he celebrated his first pole position and victory in the premier class.

After leading every session so far in this weekend’s Red Bull GP of The Americas, Marc topped his pole time of 2013 (2’03.021) by 0.248s with a lap time of 2’02.773 on his final lap of 7 in this afternoon’s qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.

Teammate Dani Pedrosa found an improvement in his setup from yesterday, and starts from second on the grid alongside his teammate, with a time of 2’03.062. LCR Honda rider, Stefan Bradl, completed an all-Honda front row for tomorrow’s 21 lap race which will start at 14h00 local time.




Marc Marquez - 1st - 2'02.773

“I’m very happy with how the weekend is going and with the qualifying session - especially taking pole position. I have a good feeling with the bike and have been setting a good pace ahead of tomorrow's race. We will try to get a good start and I'm sure we'll be fighting with Dani, as he is our strongest rival. I think that the beginning of the race will be the most important part, because with this heat the tyres suffer a lot. I will try to remain focused and have a good race!”

Dani Pedrosa - 2nd - 2'03.062

“We improved the bike a lot today and I was able to ride much better than yesterday. I managed to come very close in qualifying and hope to take advantage of all my chances to win tomorrow's race. Last year we came second so I will look to take one step further tomorrow!”


Qualifying position

1 Marc Marquez 2'02.773 ESP HONDA Repsol Honda Team
2 Dani Pedrosa 2'03.062 ESP HONDA Repsol Honda Team
3 Stefan Bradl 2'03.196 GER HONDA LCR Honda MotoGP
4 Aleix Espargaro 2'03.240 ESP FORWARD YAMAHA NGM Forward Racing
5 Jorge Lorenzo 2'03.243 ESP YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
6 Valentino Rossi 2'03.244 ITA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
7 Cal Crutchlow 2'03.780 GBR DUCATI Ducati Team
8 Bradley Smith 2'03.800 GBR YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
9 Andrea Iannone 2'03.842 ITA DUCATI Pramac Racing
10 Andrea Dovizioso 2'03.846 ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
11 Pol Espargaro 2'03.913 ESP YAMAHA Monster Yamaha Tech 3
12 Alvaro Bautista 2'03.923 ESP HONDA GO&FUN Honda Gresini
13 Scott Redding 2'04.617 GBR HONDA GO&FUN Honda Gresini
14 Nicky Hayden 2'05.062 USA HONDA Drive M7 Aspar
15 Yonny Hernandez 2'05.677 COL DUCATI Pramac Racing
16 Hiroshi Aoyama 2'05.788 JPN HONDA Drive M7 Aspar
17 Karel Abraham 2'06.239 CZE HONDA Cardion AB Motoracing
18 Hector Barbera 2'06.270 ESP AVINTIA Avintia Racing
19 Colin Edwards 2'06.741 USA FORWARD YAMAHA NGM Forward Racing
20 Michael Laverty 2'06.939 WAL PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
21 Broc Parkes 2'07.403 AUS PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
22 Danilo Petrucci 2'07.745 ITA ART IodaRacing Project
23 Mike De Meglio 2'07.761 FRA AVINTIA Avintia Racing


Championship standings

1 Marc Marquez 25 pts ESP HONDA Repsol Honda Team
2 Valentino Rossi 20 pts ITA YAMAHA Yamaha Factory Racing
3 Dani Pedrosa 16 pts ESP HONDA Repsol Honda Team
4 Aleix Espargaro 13 pts ESP FORWARD YAMAHA NGM Forward Racing
5 Andrea Dovizioso 11 pts ITA DUCATI Ducati Team
6 Cal Crutchlow 10 pts GBR DUCATI Ducati Team
7 Scott Redding 9 pts GBR HONDA GO&FUN Honda Gresini
8 Nicky Hayden 8 pts USA HONDA Drive M7 Aspar
9 Colin Edwards 7 pts USA FORWARD YAMAHA NGM Forward Racing
10 Andrea Iannone 6 pts ITA DUCATI Pramac Racing
11 Hiroshi Aoyama 5 pts JPN HONDA Drive M7 Aspar
12 Yonny Hernandez 4 pts COL DUCATI Pramac Racing
13 Karel Abraham 3 pts CZE HONDA Cardion AB Motoracing
14 Danilo Petrucci 2 pts ITA ART IodaRacing Project
15 Broc Parkes 1 pts AUS PBM Paul Bird Motorsport
16 Mike De Meglio 0 pts FRA AVINTIA Avintia Racing
17 Michael Laverty 0 pts WAL PBM Paul Bird Motorsport

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