Not even a crash at the Curvone in FP4 could stop Marc Marquez from dominating the weekend’s proceedings at Misano, as he ripped apart the exsisting lap record at the Italian circuit to take his sixth pole position of the season, after poles at Austin, Le Mans, Sachsenring, Indianapolis and Silverstone.
Not even changing out of his scraped leathers, the galvanized Repsol Honda rider attacked, posting a very impressive 1′33.
404, with his first soft tire, and then during his last flying lap blasted out at a 1:32.
915, and breaking Casey Stoner’s 2011 Misano record (1’33″138).
Jorge Lorenzo tried his best to catch the wild Marquez and he had almost caught him in the first part of the session, but in the finale the Yamaha rider ended up second and massive and highly disappointing 0.
513s adrift.
Valentino Rossi scored his second front row start after the Sachsenring round, with his third spot and he was just 0.
145 from his team mate.
Dani Pedrosa was will start in fourth, and he certainly wasn’t happy in the first part of the session giving a small punch to his RCV as he had to wait for his mechanics to register his clutch and his Honda team mate made him eat dust again, leaving him more than eight tenths adrift.
Despite losing the end piece of his exhuast system from his Yamaha M1 that bounced around the track surface, Cal Crutchlow pulled up his socks and was able to qualify in fifth after going through QP1.
Aleix Espargaro concluded the spectacular qualifying session in sixth and ahead of Stefan Bradl, Alvaro Bautista and all four Ducati riders, Andrea Dovizioso, Nicky Hayden, Michele Pirro and Andrea Iannone.
2013 MotoGP Misano Qualifying 2 results:01- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – 1’32.
915 02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
513 03- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
658 04- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
811 05- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
099 06- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
113 07- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 1.
183 08- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 1.
315 09- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
423 10- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
447 11- Michele Pirro – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
552 12- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
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Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
6042013 Misano Starting Grid:01- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V 02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 03- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 04- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V 05- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 06- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 07- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V 08- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V 09- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 10- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 11- Michele Pirro – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 12- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
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Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 13- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 14- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki 15- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR 16- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 17- Hector Barbera – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR 18- Claudio Corti – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki 19- Danilo Petrucci – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW 20- Michael Laverty – Paul Bird Motorsport – PBM 01 21- Yonny Hernandez – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP13 22- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 23- Bryan Staring – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP13 24- Lukas Pesek – CAME Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW