Bagnaia signs his fifth “pole position” in Aragon

Bagnaia has set a best time of 1.46.069, which has also become absolute circuit record, in lowering the record he himself set in 2021, 1,46,322.

Mir’s injury

Mir it was news before the start of the official classification, that he would have had to contest from the nineteenth position, but the 2020 MotoGP world champion has decided to get off the bike and not contesting either the race in Aragon or next weekend’s race in Japanconditioned by discomfort in his right ankle.

Mir managed to pass the medical check last Thursday and everything pointed to the fact that even with some discomfort he could contest his first grand prix after being injured in Austria, but the reality has been very different and the discomforts of the driver from Palma have increased , which is why he has decided not to compete.

The Suzuki pilot has explained that more than the pain, the most annoying thing is the sensitivity he has, which does not allow him to feel comfortable.

The first classification has been one of the most interesting of the season, with protagonists such as Marc Márquez (Repsol Profunda RC 213 V) or Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP). The latter, third in the provisional classification of the world championship, who was involved in a small incident that ended up being investigated by the Racing Directorate. Specifically, he cut in one of his laps so he wouldn’t get stuck” Márquez, when the Italian was coming from behind them Fabio di Giannantonio (Ducati Desmosedici GP21).

The teammate of Aleix Espargaró, from Girona Maverick Vinales, has not been too lucky in this first classification, in which when he was in sixth position he suffered a fall that prevented him from his personal best time and will force him to start from the sixth line of the formation. Specifically, it will come out sixteenth.

Pol EspargaroMárquez’s teammate in the Repsol Honda team, has also not been able to improve his situation and a new fall, the fourteenth of the season, has relegated him to eighth position in the second classification, which is the last place of the sixth line of the exit formation.

Full in the second classification, the Italian Enea Bastianini he was the first to mark the references by rolling in 1.46.580, almost half a second faster than his compatriot “Pecco” Bagnaia, who in the third lap already gave the first warning of what could be when rolling in record partials until the last partial, in which he failed and was 53 thousandths behind the time of the first.

As, fabio quartararo he was still behind, at a record pace, but when he got to the long back straight, all his chances faded in front of the potential and great speed of the Ducati.

The second and last outing on the track for all the drivers in search of the best fast lap, has put all the teams on alert, with numerous drivers in fast laps, although in the end first Aleix Espargaró, who has climbed from the eleventh position in the second, with ten thousandths lost compared to Bastianini’s record, and then the Ducati riders began their particular display, with Bagnaia first and with a new absolute track record of 1.46.069, which beat the his own record of 1,46,322.

No one has been able to match Bagnaia’s record, which was achieved with his fifth “pole position” of the season, which he had not achieved since the TT Assen race, ahead of his teammate Jack Milller i de Enea Bastianini.´

Aleix Espargaró had to settle for fourth place, second line of the starting formation, next to the French Johann Zarco and Fabio Quartararowith Jorge Martín (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) i Alex Rins (Suzuki GSX RR), next to the Italian Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati Desmosedici GP22) in third and in the fourth the South African Brad Binder (KTM RC 16), the Portuguese Miguel Oliveira (KTM RC 16) and the Japanese Takaaki Nakagami (Deep RC 213 V).