Aleix Espargaró is one of those pilots who runs heroically, who thrives in the face of adversity. In the morning, in the last rehearsal, he had a fall and a cat crossed his path... and in the qualifying session he had provisional pole position, three drivers passed him, and he returned to his own strength to, in a last Superb turn, take the preferred starting position.
His fifth pole in MotoGP, with which he will start first in the Sprint (at 3:00 p.m.) and on Sunday (3:00 p.m.). The main rivals for his victory will be Jorge Martín, third, and Jack Miller, second, in addition to the champion, Pecco Bagnaia, fifth, wanting to make up for two consecutive zeros. The leader, Marco Bezzecchi, starts 13th.
"Before, in situations on a wet track, I always did last and now a pole in MotoGP. I couldn't make mistakes or crash. The track was drying up and in the last lap I gave it my all. This morning the crash was my mistake , a spoiler, my fault, it was not the time to test it, and I fell. My front end has been completely unloaded," explained the Granollers driver to Dazn TV after taking pole position ahead of Jack Miller and Jorge Martín .
Aleix Espargaró was dominating the session, which went from wet to dry track, with the difficulty that entails, but at the last moment Miller, Martín and Binder passed him. In the last lap, with the clock at zero, the Aprilia rider did his best to recover the first position.
It is his fifth pole, after those achieved last year in Argentina (he won) and in Catalonia (he was going to win, but he was confused by the lap marker), in Catalonia 2015 and in Assen 2014. His great moment.
Very remarkable was the sixth position on the grid achieved by Dani Pedrosa (KTM), who is racing with an invitation in his second World Cup race since retiring in 2018. The man from Castellar, 37, a KTM tester and commentator for Dazn TV , came to lead the first day of training in Jerez, and was performing among the first in the queen class.
