Sometimes you come very close to qualifying and just miss it, but that rarely happens twice in the same day. However, this is the misfortune that Danilo Petrucci experienced this Saturday at Sepang.
At the end of the first three free practice sessions, you had to be among the first twelve to be transferred directly to Q2. Petrucci ranked thirteenth, 0.118 behind twelfth alex rins.
Danilo therefore participated in Q1 with the hope of being among the two fastest, which was almost the case. He failed in third position, 0.213 behind the fastest Alex Rins, and 0.164 behind second. Espargaro Pol.
Petrucci will therefore start this Sunday from the fifth row of the starting grid, alongside his teammate Scott Redding and Alvaro Bautista, a 100% Ducati line. It's far from ideal, but not hopeless. Petrux has already qualified twice this year in thirteenth position, in Austin and Jerez, which did not prevent him from finishing eighth in Texas and seventh in Spain.
To Danilo Petrucci, who are " I can't say I'm happy but honestly the feeling isn't bad, even if we may have only reached a good level at the end of FP4.
“I missed the Q2 qualifying session twice by a tenth today: it could have gone better but I think I have a good pace so that I can stay in the top 10 tomorrow even in the dry. »
Qualification results:
1 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1'59.212
2 Johann ZARCO FRA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 1'59.229 0.017
3 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 1'59.236 0.024
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1'59.498 0.286
5 Maverick VIÑALES SPA Movistar Yamaha MotoGP Yamaha 1'59.538 0.326
6 Jorge LORENZO SPA Ducati Team Ducati 1'59.622 0.410
7 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 1'59.694 0.482
8 Alex RINS SPA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 1'59.992 0.780
9 Andrea IANNONE ITA Team SUZUKI ECSTAR Suzuki 2'00.119 0.907
10 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR LCR Honda 2'00.181 0.969
11 Jack MILLER AUS EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda 2'00.326 1.114
12 Pol ESPARGARO SPA Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM 2'00.770 1.558
13 Danilo PETRUCCI ITA OCTO Pramac Racing Ducati
14 Scott REDDING GBR OCTO Pramac Racing Ducati
15 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Pull&Bear Aspar Team Ducati
16 Bradley SMITH GBR Red Bull KTM Factory Racing KTM
17 Loris BAZ FRA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati
18 Sam LOWES GBR Aprilia Racing Team Gresini Aprilia
19 Tito RABAT SPA EG 0,0 Marc VDS Honda
20 Hector BARBERA SPA Reale Avintia Racing Ducati
21 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Pull&Bear Aspar Team Ducati
22 Michael VAN DER MARK NED Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha
Provisional ranking of the World Championship:
1 MARQUEZ Marc SPA 269 points
2 DOVIZIOSO Andrea ITA 236
3 VIÑALES Maverick SPA 219
4 ROSSI Valentino ITA 188
5 PEDROSA Dani SPA 174
6 ZARCO Johann FRA 138
7 LORENZO Jorge SPA 117
8 PETRUCCI Danilo ITA 111
9 CRUTCHLOW Cal GBR 103
10 FOLGER Jonas GER 84
11 BAUTISTA Alvaro SPA 70
12 MILLER Jack AUS 65
13 ESPARGARO Aleix SPA 62
14 REDDING Scott GBR 61
15 IANNONE Andrea ITA 60
16 ESPARGARO Pol SPA 49
17 RINS Alex SPA 46
18 BAZ Loris FRA 45
19 ABRAHAM Karel CZE 30
20 RABAT Tito SPA 29
21 BARBERA Hector SPA 25
22 SMITH Bradley GBR 20
23 PIRRO Michele ITA 18
24 KALLIO Mika END 11
25 LOWES Sam GBR 5
26 NAKASUGA Katsuyuki JPN 4
27 GUINTOLI Sylvain FRA 1
28 TSUDA Takuya JPN 0
Classification by manufacturers:
1 HONDA 319 points
2 YAMAHA 285
3 DUCATI 278
4 SUZUKI 87
5 APRILIA 64
6 KTM 58
Team ranking:
1 REPSOL HONDA TEAM 443 points
2 MOVISTAR YAMAHA MOTOGP 407
3 DUCATI TEAM 353
4 MONSTER YAMAHA TECH 3 222
5 OCTO PRAMAC RACING 172
6 TEAM SUZUKI ECSTAR 107
7 LCR HONDA 103
8 PULL&BEAR ASPAR TEAM 100
9 EG 0,0 MARC VDS 94
10 REALE AVINTIA RACING 70
11 RED BULL KTM FACTORY RACING 69
12 APRILIA RACING TEAM GRESINI 67
Photo © Pramac Racing
