Malaysian Grand Prix, Sepang, MotoGP, Q.2: Fall and pole for Marquez ahead of Zarco!

Rain will therefore be the main ingredient to take into account in this qualifying final for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Appeared in the middle of the FP4, she determined the order of Q.1 from which Bautista and Aleix Espargaro emerged. Now it's time to talk about pole position. Vinales Did he recover from his fall a few minutes earlier, he who was the first trapped by the downpour? And will these conditions reveal a new hierarchy? The answer will not be long! 

Before enjoying it, here is the table that raises the debate…

Sepang MotoGP™	2017	2018
FP1	2'00.671 Andrea Dovizioso (see here)	1'59.697 Andrea Dovizioso (see here)
FP2	2'11.640 Andrea Dovizioso (see here)	1'59.608 Alex Rins
FP3	1'59.947 Valentino Rossi (see here)	1'59.231 Maverick Vinales
FP4	2'00.438 Marc Marquez (see here)	2'00.083 Marc Marquez
Qualification 1	2'00.138 Alex Rins (see here)	2'13.311 Alvaro Bautista
Qualification 2	1'59.212 Dani Pedrosa (see here)
Warm Up	2'00.456 Andrea Dovizioso (see here)
Course	Dovizioso, Lorenzo, Zarco (see here)
All time lap record	1'59.053 Dani Pedrosa 2015 (old coating)

25° in the air and 28° on a drying track are the conditions proposed for this long-awaited final... Marquez triggers a 2'13.641 of first reference. Alex Espargaro crash at turn 4. He was eleventh.

Marquez accelerates in 2'12.161. It takes more than a second to Petrucci second ahead Miller. Dovizioso is fifth and Vinales is only eleventh, more than four seconds behind…

Four minutes from the goal, Marc Marquez falls at turn 4. He returns to the pits and leaves with his second bike.

At the last minute, Dovizioso fall at turn 9.  Zarco, Rossi et Iannone therefore pass in front of him. Miller, Petrucci, Kidneys, Baptist et Pedrosa complete the top 10. Vinales is eleventh in front Alex Espargaro.

Malaysian Grand Prix, Sepang, MotoGP, Q.2: classification.