We’ve run out of accolades to describe the super talented Marc Marquez.
The Repsol Honda rookie did it again as he took his second pole position of the 2013 season in today’s qualifying session at the Bugatti circuit at Le Mans.
If a pole position in the Austing GP was more than expected at the French circuit, Marquez learned the layout so well so well that he posted a flying lap in a stunning 1:33.
187, shrugging off his FP4 crash just fifteen minutes before QP2.
Only the hammering laps of Jorge Lorenzo could keep up with the Repsol Honda rider and he finished a mere 0.
030s adrift, but just checking out the time sectors you can see that the Yamaha rider is a war machine more than prepared for tomorrow’s race.
Andrea Dovizioso took the third spot on the front row, and giving Ducati their first front start after Nicky Hayden’s last year qualifying result at Jerez.
Dovizioso also managed to pip by just 0.
006s a battered and heroic Cal Crutchlow for the position, proving that the Ducati does like the French circuit.
Fifth fastest was Alvaro Bautista who also a little battered after his crash yesterday and he’ll have a fellow Honda rider next to him Dani Pedrosa.
The Repsol Honda had posted the second best time but then crashed out at turn 3 – the Dunlop chicane – that has caught out so many riders this weekend which left his down in sixth.
Opening the the third row will be Stefan Bradl, while Valentino Rossi has another horrible qualifying ending up 8th and more than eight tenths of second from his own team mate, losing a massive amount of time in the braking sections of the first and third sectors.
Bradley Smith took ninth and just two tenths slower than Rossi, while Nicky Hayden rounded out the top ten with Aspar CRT riders Aleix Espargaro and Randy De Puniet in 11th and 12th.
2013 MotoGP Le Mans QP2 results:01- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – 1’33.
187 02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
030 03- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 0.
416 04- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
422 05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V – + 0.
447 06- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V – + 0.
452 07- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V – + 0.
797 08- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0.
822 09- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 1.
035 10- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 – + 1.
055 11- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
567 12- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 – + 1.
899 2013 MotoGP Le Mans Starting Grid:01- Marc Marquez – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V 02- Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 03- Andrea Dovizioso – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 04- Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 05- Stefan Bradl – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC213V 06- Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC213V 07- Alvaro Bautista – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – Honda RC213V 08- Valentino Rossi – Yamaha Factory Racing – Yamaha YZR M1 09- Bradley Smith – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 10- Nicky Hayden – Ducati Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 11- Aleix Espargaro – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 12- Randy De Puniet – Power Electronics Aspar – ART GP13 13- Andrea Iannone – Energy T.
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Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 14- Michele Pirro – Ignite Pramac Racing – Ducati Desmosedici GP13 15- Hector Barbera – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR 16- Danilo Petrucci – Came Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW 17- Colin Edwards – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki 18- Karel Abraham – Cardion AB Motoracing – ART GP13 19- Claudio Corti – NGM Mobile Forward Racing – FTR Kawasaki 20- Michael Laverty – Paul Bird Motorsport – PBM 01 21- Bryan Staring – GO&FUN Honda Gresini – FTR Honda MGP13 22- Lukas Pesek – Iodaracing Project – Ioda Suter BMW 23- Yonny Hernandez – Paul Bird Motorsport – ART GP13 24- Hiroshi Aoyama – Avintia Blusens – BQR FTR
