Alex Marquez in Argentina to the first pole of his career

Alex Marquez won the best starting position in qualifying in Argentina. The Spaniard's risk with dry track tires paid off right at the end of qualifying. For him, this is the first best starting position in the elite class.

Alongside him, Marco Bezzecchi and Francesco Bagnaia will start today's sprint race and tomorrow's main race. The latter also put dry track tires on the motorcycle at the end.

The fourth time was set by Franco Morbidelli ahead of Maverick Vinales, Johann Zarco and Luca Marini.

The top ten was completed by Jorge Martin, Aleix Espargaro and Fabio Quartararo.

The eleventh and twelfth starting places were secured by the racers of the LCR Honda team. Takaaki Nakagami was faster than Alex Rins.

The thirteenth time was set by Raul Fernandez ahead of Fabio Di Giannantoni. This time, the racers of the KTM team finished somewhat behind. Brad Binder will start the race from fifteenth, and Jack Miller from sixteenth. The last two places were taken by Augusto Fernandez and Joan Mir.

The results:

Already at the end of the third training session, it started to rain, so the racers had to install rain tires on their motorcycles.

This initially caused some problems for Fabio Quartararo, who made a mistake at the end of the start-finish line and drove into the sand, but saved himself from falling.

In the opening part of the slower qualifying group, Fabio Quartararo performed best and Alex Marquez, who was the fastest, managed to secure advancement to the second part.

In the faster qualifying group, Johann Zarco started the fastest with a time of 1:46.834.

Marco Bezzecchi was the first to take risks with dry track tyres. Francesco Bagnaia did the same soon after.