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MotoGP champ Quartararo on pole as Marquez crashes twice

MANDALIKA: MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo will start Sunday's (Mar 20) first race in Indonesia in 25 years from pole position after a dramatic qualifying session that saw Marc Marquez twice crashed out.

Marc Marquez Suffers Nasty Fall In Dramatic Indonesia MotoGP Practice

Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez suffered a high-speed crash in second practice for the Indonesian Grand Prix on Friday as title-holder Fabio Quartararo roared back to go quickest. World-class motorcycling is back in Indonesia for the first time in 25 years and there was drama in the second practice session on a sweltering afternoon on the new Mandalika circuit on the tropical island of Lombok. Spain's Marquez had already suffered a couple of hair-raising wobbles on his Honda and went flying off at speed at Turn 11 before tumbling painfully through the gravel.

MotoGP Indonesian GP: Quartararo on pole, Marquez 15th after two crashes in wild qualifying

After a miserable start to his title defence in Qatar, in which he qualified 11th and finished the race ninth, Quartararo stormed to his first pole since the 2021 Catalan GP by 0.213 seconds from Pramac’s Jorge Martin.

MotoGP : El show de Márquez acaba con dos caídas y pole de Quartararo

Tan importante era la Q1 del GP de Indonesia que a Marc Márquez no le importó tirar en ella como si la mismísima pole estuviera en juego, protagonizando un show de los suyos que esta vez no tuvo un final feliz, porque a la primera caída, que no impidió que volviera a la pista, le siguió una segunda que le condenó definitivamente a salir decimoquinto en la carrera de mañana. El del Repsol Honda cerrará así la quinta fila, lejos, muy lejos de la primera línea que quedó reservada tras la Q2 para Fabio Quartararo, Jorge Martín y Johann Zarco.