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Video: Amazing! Andrea Dovizioso gives the slipstream to Marc Márquez to make pole position at Mugello
2024 Author: Nicholas Abramson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-10 16:41
Mugello is a slipstream circuit and Marc Márquez has once again been the smartest in MotoGP to take a new pole position. The Spanish rider made his fast lap close to Andrea Dovizioso and took advantage of his slipstream to secure a new pole position, a moral blow for Ducati that is beginning to see their weekend go awry.
In addition, everything has turned out very smoothly for Márquez, since his rivals have not had a rhythm and are going to come out very off the hook. Not only Andrea Dovizioso has had problems, not being able to square his lap, but also Álex Rins and Valentino Rossi are going to leave far behind Due to a classification that has been the revolution of the covered.
Dovizioso, Rins and Rossi are very late
The great victim of Marc Márquez's mischief has been Fabio Quartararo. 'El Diablo' was flying at Mugello and constantly improving his best record, but Márquez's final lap leaves him in second position. In any case, tomorrow he will have a good opportunity to make his first podium and who knows if something else.
The first line is completed by Danilo Petrucci's Ducati, which has been the fastest Desmosedici GP19 all weekend. The Italian will try to overtake Márquez at the beginning and hold him until Andrea Dovizioso arrives, who will start ninth, closing the third row. She entered Q2, although she was last in her, Michelle Pirro, the Ducati tester.
The second row of the grid will be fully made up of satellite bikes. Franco Morbidelli, the other Petronas Yamaha, will come out fourth, ahead of Jack Miller and Cal Crutchlow. You have to go to seventh position to find the third official bike, which will be Maverick Viñales' Yamaha M1.
Who has deflated a bit in the classification is Pol Espargaro. The KTM rider has been consistently in the top six positions all weekend, but he has failed when push comes to shove and will start eleventh. Still, Espargaró has a good pace and can make a good result tomorrow.
The drama is out of Q2. Beginning with Valentino Rossi, the local hero, who has scored his worst qualifying since the 2006 Dutch Grand Prix. Rossi will start 18th and he wasn't even close to getting past Q1. One place ahead will leave the other major victim of the day, Jorge Lorenzo, who is not feeling comfortable in Mugello either.
But the thing does not end there. The Suzukis also continue their journey in the desert in qualifying, and again both were eliminated in Q1. Álex Rins was close to passing, but was overtaken by Pirro and Dovizioso, and will finally leave thirteenth. Joan Mir was further back and will start twentieth.
Remarkable is the good performance of the other two Spaniards, although neither made it to Q2. Tito Rabat will come out fourteenth with a time four tenths better than his teammate, Karel Abraham. For his part, Aleix Espargaró has once again demonstrated who the Aprilia leader is, being fifteenth and beating Iannone, last, by a second and a half.
We will see tomorrow how a race unfolds in which Marc Márquez starts as a favorite after his pole position today, but in which you will be surrounded in the opening laps by many drivers with little to lose and much to gain. Running away from the start doesn't seem like a bad plan for the Spanish rider.
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