MotoGp Jerez 2023, official qualifying: Espargarò on pole – Corriere.it

Aleix Espargar he is confirmed as the fastest on the Jerez circuit. The Spaniard from Aprilia, who was very fast in Friday’s free practice, took his fifth pole position in the top class, fifth also for Aprilia which saw Miguel Oliveira climb to seventh position with a customer RG-GP. More lingered Maverick Vinalesonly tenth after the second best time the day before.

The qualifying was conditioned by the rain which mixed the values ​​in the field, at least for half of the session. With the asphalt gradually drying out, the values ​​then recovered, but the wet curbs represented a constant threat right up to the end. It was the hardest pole of my life Espargar confessed that he put behind the Ktm of Jack Miller, a wet weather specialist. The Austrian manufacturer can also rejoice in the fourth place of Brad Binder and the sixth of test driver Dani Pedrosa, the surprise of this weekend, on track as a wild card.

Different moods at Ducati: Bagnaia (pole and victory at Jerez in 2022), passed through Q1 with a tricky Desmosedici under braking, finished in fifth fastest time, Enea Bastianini waved the white flag after morning free practice, and finished in advance the trip. The pain in his scapula injured in Portimao doesn’t allow him to race. In Bologna they can partially console themselves with the third time of Martin (Team Prima Pramac), but they must also record the thirteenth time of Marco Bezzecchi, current leader of the championship. Even darker moods in Yamaha: only fourteenth Franco Morbidelli and sixteenth Fabio Quartararo, increasingly disconsolate and perplexed about his future with the Japanese manufacturer. In the meantime, the Sprint Race kicks off at 3 pm, the second highlight of the day.