Marko Hanželic
With an exceptional lap time, the Frenchman beat all the competition, including this year's superior compatriot and the leading racer of the championship, Fabio Quartararo, which are to him to a relaxed and unencumbered compatriot on last year’s Ducati ran out of three tenths of a second.
Zarco's success is all the more surprising because his colleagues under the same brand didn’t exactly shine, with the factory racer Ducati, Andrea Dovizioso, they completely crashed and will start only from the 18th position tomorrow.
The racers v qualifications this weekend had to deal with the highest temperatures ever. Thermometer climbed to 31 degrees in the air and 50 degrees on the asphalt. All in all, it didn’t bother me too much winner of both races in Jerez and as in the Spanish heat it is also in hot Brno proved its quality.
His first quick lap was already a prediction: with 1: 55.990 minutes he set a new best time this racing weekend and anchored at the top. He came closest to him in this part of the qualifications Alex Espargaro, who was 84 thousandths behind the Frenchman, later infiltrated them Maverick Vinales.
But others have picked up the pace again. However, most of them failed to reach the proximity of the fastest time Quarterly - with the exception of former teammates from the KTM team, Johann Zarco in Pola Espargaro. Both overtook the Frenchman in the standings. Asparagus they then deleted the fastest lap as he reached it under the yellow flags.
Best time to Johann Zarco came into force and the Frenchman recorded his first pole position after Malaysia 2018, after Quarterly fell in the last lap. This time he was a racer Petronas Yamaha had to settle for second place, ahead of his teammate Franco Morbidelli.
Three Spaniards, both brothers, will start from the second starting line-up for a more visible result Asparagus, Aleix from the fourth and Pol from sixth place and fifth Maverick Vinales, which keeps a constant throughout the events in Brno. Valentino Rossi he didn't find the right rhythm in the last Saturday's action, in the end he took the 10th place with a lag of more than eight tenths of a second, and before that they ranked from the seventh to the ninth place Brad Binder, Danilo Petrucci in Joan mir.
Q1: Rins and Binder advanced
In Q1, we watched a very prominent cast as they found themselves there Rins, Nakagami, Dovizioso in Miller. But as always, only the two fastest drivers advanced to the next lap. After the first run, they were Binder in Miller the fastest. Dovizioso, on the other hand, has not yet driven a fast lap because his path has been crossed by yellow flags.
Takaaki Nakagami he then set the fastest Q1 time, but it was canceled for him because he was a little too long in the bend and drove off the asphalt. Next to the Suzuki racer Rinse, who finished Q1 the fastest in the end, progressed further in Q2 Binder. He took advantage resin Nakagami and landed in second place.
