MotoGP LIVE Catalonia Barcelona Q2: Quartararo 1, Zarco 3!

Franco Morbidelli, Fabio Quartararo, Miguel Oliveira, Francesco Bagnaia, Aleix Espargaro, Brad Binder, Johann Zarco, Maverick Vinales, Joan Mir and Valentino Rossi have spared themselves a passage to Q1 which is always costly in energy, and have just been joined by Jack Miller et Pol Espargaro just drafted during the first qualification.

In this pre-list which did not include any Honda, Yamaha had placed its four machines for the first time this season and KTM was making a strong comeback after a difficult start to the year.

The 4-minute FP30 showed a fabio quartararo imperial, whether on a medium or hard tire at the rear. Will it be the same during this Qualification 2 which will determine the places on the first four rows of the starting grid for the Catalan Grand Prix?

Response within 15 minutes, under overcast skies and temperatures of 25° in the air and 40° on the asphalt.

Past references:

Catalunya-Barcelona MotoGP™	2020	2021 (New turn #10)
FP1	1'40.431 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'40.378 Aleix Espargaro (See here)
FP2	1'39.789 Franco Morbidelli (See here)	1'39.235 Johann Zarco (See here)
FP3	1'39.418 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'38.929 Franco Morbidelli (See here)
FP4	1'40.315 Maverick Vinales (See here)	1'39.602 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'39.399 Jack Miller (See here)	1'39.153 Jack Miller (See here)
Q2	1'38.798 Franco Morbidelli (See here)	1'38.853 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Warm Up	1'40.139 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Course	Quartararo, Mir, Rins (See here)
All time lap record	1'38.680 Jorge Lorenzo 2018

When the red lights go out… the three Yamahas Maverick Vinales, Franco Morbidelli and Valentino Rossi are the first to set off.

Like he usually does, fabio quartararo lets his opponents go, with the exception of Pol Espargaro, just drafted in Q1, who is waiting.

Everyone has a soft rear tire and a medium front tire, with the exception of Jack Miller who uses a soft front on his Ducati GP21.

Alex Espargaro is the first to put his name at the top of the table, in 1'39.834. Fabio Quartararo lowers this reference to 1'39.351 while Valentino Rossi crash at turn four.

Franco Morbidelli takes command in 1'39.274 but The Devil didn't give up in 1'38.853 at the end of his second flying lap.

The Niçois, however, is forced to slow down before looking at his rear wheel and making gestures towards his box.

After this first salvo, fabio quartararo created a gap of 4/10 on Franco Morbidelli and Maverick Vinales, Aleix Espargaro, Brad Binder, Miguel Oliveira, Johann Zarco, Francesco Bagnaia, Joan Mir, Valentino Rossi, Jack Miller and Pol Espargaro which is still not released

On resumption, Jack Miller positions his Ducati at 37/1000 fabio quartararo before falling without gravity at turn #3.

Espargaro Pol also makes a mistake at turn #10.

In the last lap, alone Johann zarco seems able to improve and, indeed, the Frenchman who was positioned seventh jumped to third place!

The Pramac Racing driver appeared to be bothered by Brad Binder in his last turn... but it was nothing of the sort, and, on the contrary, Johann zarco said it probably helped him get his time.

The last 5 minutes in video:

Ranking of Qualification 2 of the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona:

Ranking of Qualification 1 of the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com