Bradl surprised with the best starting position

 

Stefan Bradl will start the race for the United States Grand Prix from the best starting position. The German won at the expense of the fall of Marco Marquez. With a time of 1: 21.176, he was two hundredths of a second better than the Spaniard.

 

Bradl set his fastest time thirty seconds before the end, although it looked like Marquez would easily get to qualifying as well. Racer Repsol Honde tried to improve his best time 1: 21.193, but fell. The Spaniard didn’t have time for another quick lap and so Bradl won his first pole position in the MotoGP series.

Alvaro Bautista, who was 1: 21.373 better than Valentino Rossi 1: 21.418, made sure that the first starting line was entirely Honda. Cal Crutchlow, who fell in fourth practice, was only able to drive for the fifth time, as he only drove the fast lap in the final moment. He was detained in the garage by a technical malfunction of the motorcycle.

Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, both with damaged collarbones, were sixth and seventh. The last three places in the top ten went to Andrea Dovizioso, Bradley Smith and Nicky Haydn.

 

1. Qualifications

	Racer	Team	Hour	Circles
1.	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda	01:22.017	4
2.	Randy de Puniet	Asparagus	01:22.694	9
3.	Hector Barbera	Blusens	01:22.808	9
4.	Alex de Angelis	Pramac	01:23.253	9
5.	Colin Edwards	Forward	01:23.272	9
6.	Danilo Petrucci	Iodine	01:23.323	10
7.	Claudio Corti	Forward	01:23.616	8
8.	Yonny Hernandez	Paul Bird	01:23.875	10
9.	Karel Abraham	Cardion AB	01:23.919	6
10.	Michael Laverty	Paul Bird	01:23.987	9
11.	Hiroshi Aoyama	Blusens	01:24.235	9
12.	Bryan Staring	Gresini	01:24.756	8
13.	Luke Pug	Iodine	01:24.809	9

 

2. Qualifications

	Racer	Team	Hour	Circles
1.	Stefan bradl	Honda LCR	01:21.176	10
2.	Marc Marquez	Repsol Honda	01:21.193	6
3.	Alvaro Bautista	Gresini	01:21.373	10
4.	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	01:21.418	9
5.	Cal Crutchlow	Tech 3	01:21.420	7
6.	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	01:21.453	9
7.	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda	01:21.728	10
8.	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	01:22.026	10
9.	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	01:22.075	10
10.	Nicky Hayden	Ducati	01:22.090	10
11.	Alex Espargaro	Asparagus	01:22.099	9
12.	Randy de Puniet	Asparagus	No time	1