MotoGP Germany Sachsenring Q2 LIVE: Johann Zarco falls but snatches pole from Fabio Quartararo!

Au combined rankings from the first three practice sessions of the German Grand Prix on the Sachsenring circuit, fabio quartararo, Jack Miller, Johann zarco, Miguel Oliveira, Aleix Espargaró, Jorge Martin, Takaaki Nakagami, Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Márquez and Álex Márquez are pre-qualified for Q2 (Qualification 2).

They have just been joined by alex rins et Pol I will espargaro, drafted at the end of Qualification 1.

The next 15 minutes will therefore confront these 12 drivers who are held within just 3 tenths of a second for the allocation of places on the first four rows of the starting grid.

The track is overheated at 50°, bodies and minds will be too!

Here are the past references:

Sachsenring MotoGP™	2019	2021
FP1	1'21.390 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'21.660 Marc Márquez (See here)
FP2	1'20.705 Marc Márquez (See here)	1'20.690 Miguel Oliveira (See here)
FP3	1'20.347 Marc Márquez (See here)	1'20.348 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
FP4	1'21.153 Maverick Viñales (See here)	1'21.397 Johann Zarco (See here)
Q1	1'20.933 Valentino Rossi (See here)	1'20.644 Alex Rins (See here)
Q2	1'20.195 Marc Márquez (See here)	1'20.236 Johann Zarco (See here)
Warm Up	1'23.116 Marc Márquez (See here)
Course	Marquez, Vinales, Crutchlow (See here)
All time lap record	1'20.195 Marc Márquez (2019)

 

When the red lights go out, in the absence of Franco Morbidelli who ended up falling in Q1, it was Alex Marquez who has the privilege of setting off first and benefiting from a free track.

 

 

For once, fabio quartararo don't leave last since Pol I will espargaro, just drafted from Q1, catches his breath in his box.

The tires chosen by each:

 

From the first round launched, Marc Márquez in the wake of his brother Álex, achieves the best time in 1'20.567.

fabio quartararo positions himself in second position but his lap is canceled for having crossed the limits of the track. In the next passage, The Devil continued his effort and this time scored 1'20.437.

 

 

Validating a good time during the first run is always important, because yellow flags are always likely to intervene to cancel times achieved at the last minute...

After this first run, the hierarchy is made up of Fabio Quartararo, Marc Márquez, Jorge Martin, Aleix Espargaró, Takaaki Nakagami, Francesco Bagnaia, Miguel Oliveira, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, Álex Rins, Álex Márquez and Pol I will espargaro who still hasn't hit the track.

On resumption, Jack Miller, then positioned eighth, lights up the first two sectors in red, which is far from the first time, but manages to improve his best times in the 3rd and 4th sectors, which earns him provisional second place.

 

 

Pol I will espargaro positions himself behind fabio quartararo to use it as a focal point, but the Frenchman is hampered by the traffic. We then witness the somewhat distressing spectacle of the MotoGP riders who behave as in Moto3, waiting in slow motion outside the trajectory...

fabio quartararo decides to take the bull by the horns and sets off, always followed by Pol I will espargaro.

 

 

The Yamaha rider then achieves 1'20.247, thus managing to place the only 4-cylinder in line in the top 10, but is immediately overtaken by Johann zarco in 1'20.236. In the process, perhaps distracted for a moment by the presence of fabio quartararo, the Pramac Racing driver fell at high speed in turn #4, fortunately without gravity.

 

 

In the last minute, Takaaki Nakagami crash in the first corner, which leads to the appearance of yellow flags and cancels any chances of improvement.

In extremis, Jack Miller fails to improve whileAleix I will espargaro hoists his Aprilia RS–GP to the front row, behind the two French riders.

 

 

 

Ranking for Qualification 2 of the MotoGP German Grand Prix at Sachsenring:

Ranking for Qualification 1 of the MotoGP German Grand Prix at Sachsenring:

Credit rankings: MotoGP.com