Gran Premio de Aragón

Round 14 - Saturday, September 27th 2014

Aragon - Qualifying Report

Weather conditions

sunny

24°C
Air temp

36°C
Track temp

55%
Humidity

Marquez smashes lap record with Pedrosa completing Repsol Honda 1-2 in Aragón qualifying

Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa will occupy the front two spots for tomorrow’s Aragón GP, for the third time this season and the first time since Germany.

Marc took a provisional pole on his first exit of Q2 with a time of 1’47.572, 0.232s faster than his pole record in 2013 (1’47.804). Then Dani, on his second exit, put in a blistering lap of 1’47.549, 0.023 faster than Marc sending him to the top of the timing sheets. Marc responded and clinched his 20th Pole Position in the MotoGP class, setting a new fastest lap time around the 5,078km Aragón circuit with a time of 1’47.187, 0.617s faster than 2013.

The 23 lap race will start at 14h00 local time.

Team Quotes

1st - 1'47.187

“Qualifying went very well, continuing the form that we have had so far this weekend! We have focused a lot of our work on our race pace, looking less at setting a one-off lap time and more at finding a strong pace. Things are looking good for the race, although Dani also has a very good pace, so we’ll have to see tomorrow!”

2nd - 1'47.549

“Today we had a good qualifying session. In other races we have had difficulties because we haven't started from the front, but today we managed to set a good lap. I think that the practice sessions also went well for us, and tomorrow in the race we will be as competitive as possible. Marc is setting some very good times, so we will try to fight for the win against him! It will be important to get a good start, although the race is long and the pace will play a big part, so we will have keep our concentration on every corner."

qualifying results

Gran Premio de Aragón - Round 14

Pos.	Rider	Num.	Nation	Team	Constructor	Time/Gap
1	Marc Marquez	93	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	1'47.187
2	Dani Pedrosa	26	ESP	Repsol Honda Team	HONDA	1'47.549
3	Andrea Iannone	29	ITA	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	1'47.685
4	Pol Espargaro	44	ESP	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	1'47.865
5	Cal Crutchlow	35	GBR	Ducati Team	DUCATI	1'47.897
6	Valentino Rossi	46	ITA	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA	1'48.226
7	Jorge Lorenzo	99	ESP	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	YAMAHA	1'48.246
8	Stefan Bradl	6	GER	LCR Honda MotoGP	HONDA	1'48.368
9	Andrea Dovizioso	4	ITA	Ducati Team	DUCATI	1'48.542
10	Aleix Espargaro	41	ESP	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	1'48.568
11	Bradley Smith	38	GBR	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	YAMAHA	1'48.810
12	Hector Barbera	8	ESP	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	1'48.991
13	Yonny Hernandez	68	COL	Pramac Racing	DUCATI	1'49.051
14	Hiroshi Aoyama	7	JPN	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	1'49.209
15	Alvaro Bautista	19	ESP	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	1'49.274
16	Scott Redding	45	GBR	Go & Fun Honda Gresini	HONDA	1'49.703
17	Karel Abraham	17	CZE	Cardion AB Motoracing	HONDA	1'49.790
18	Nicky Hayden	69	USA	Drive M7 Aspar	HONDA	1'49.835
19	Alex De Angelis	15	RSM	NGM Mobile Forward Racing	YAMAHA	1'50.263
20	Danilo Petrucci	9	ITA	IodaRacing Project	IODA-SUTER	1'50.635
21	Michael Laverty	70	GBR	Paul Bird Motorsport	ART & PBM	1'51.280
22	Broc Parkes	23	AUS	Paul Bird Motorsport	PBM	1'51.489
23	Mike Di Meglio	63	FRA	Avintia Racing MotoGP	FTR-KAWASAKI	1'52.181

Circuit Information

View circuit page at www.repsolhondateam.com

Length	5.078 m / 3.155 miles
Width	15m
Left corners	10
Right corners	7
Longest straight	968 m / 0.601 miles
Constructed	2009
Modified

La Ciudad del Motor de Aragón
Ctra TE-V-7033, km 1
Apdo de correos 174
44600 Alcañiz, Teruel (Spain)

www.motorlandaragon.com

Pole position	1m 47.187s (170.5Km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2014)
Race lap	1m 48.565s (168.3Km/h) Dani Pedrosa (Honda, 2013)
Race time	42m 03.459s (166.6 km/h) Marc Marquez (Honda, 2013)
2012 Race Winner	Dani Pedrosa (Honda)
2013 Race Winner	Marc Marquez (Honda)