MotoGP Misano 1 Q2 LIVE: The Ducati, prophets in their country!

To Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Quartararo, Jack Miller, Joan Mir, Maverick Vinales, Aleix Espargaro, Alex Rins, Johann Zarco, Pol Espargaro, Jorge Martin already pre-qualified in FP3 have just joined Enea Bastianini and Marc Marquez, drafted in Qualification 1.

The next 15 minutes will allow the positions on the first four rows of the starting grid to be determined for the Gran Premio MotoGP Octo di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini which will take place over 27 laps of the Misano World Marco Simoncelli circuit.

The sky gradually begins to cloud over while temperatures are 29° in the air and 38° on the asphalt...

Misano-1 MotoGP™	2020	2021
FP1	1'31.721 Fabio Quartararo (See here)	1'32.666 Maverick Vinales (See here)
FP2	1'31.628 Brad Binder (See here)	1'42.097 Johann Zarco (See here)
FP3	1'31.127 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'31.936 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
FP4	1'32.005 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)	1'32.197 Fabio Quartararo (See here)
Q1	1'31.559 Jack Miller (See here)	1'31.876 Enea Bastianini (See here)
Q2	1'31.077 Maverick Vinales (See here)	1'31.065 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)
Warm Up	1'32.402 Alex Marquez (See here)
Course	Vinales, Mir, P.Espargaro (See here)
All time lap record	1'31.077 Maverick Vinales 2020	1'31.065 Francesco Bagnaia (See here)

When the red lights go out... Joan Mir sets off first in front of the two Aprilias of Maverick Vinales et Alex Espargaro.

Enea Bastianini, who achieved the best time of the weekend during Q1, remains in his box.

All riders use the soft rear tire, while all three options were chosen for the front.

At the end of the first round, Fabio Quartararo is the fastest in 1'32.097.

In the next passage, Alex Espargaro breaks the 1'32 mark in 1'31.937 but Jorge Martin, Francesco Bagnaia and Fabio Quartararo improve successively, the Frenchman scoring 1'31.367!

The drivers return to their box and the hierarchy is then made up of Fabio Quartararo, Francesco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin, Marc Marquez, Aleix Espargaro, Jack Miller, Johann Zarco, Pol Espargaro, Alex Rins, Joan Mir, Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini.

Upon resumption, Marc Márquez clearly takes the wheel of Francis Bagnaia but the Honda driver suffered his 20th crash of the season, fortunately not serious!

A few seconds later, Alex Espargaro loses control of his Aprilia at turn #15. The yellow flags are out…

Two minutes from the checkered flag, Francis Bagnaia produced his effort and clocked 1'31.065, a new absolute circuit record!

In the wake, Jack Miller takes second position while Fabio Quartararo fall without gravity.

In extremis, Johann zarco rises to fifth place.

Results of Qualifying 2 of the San Marino Grand Prix MotoGP:

Results of Qualifying 1 of the San Marino Grand Prix MotoGP:

Classification credit: MotoGP.com