MotoGP Austria, Qualifying: Marquez wins the 70th pole of his career, Dovi flies 2nd, Rossi on the third row

GP Austria MotoGP Qualifying – Marc Marquez wins the pole position of the Austrian Grand Prix, eleventh stage of the 2017 MotoGP.

The world championship leader achieved it with a time of 1:23.235 ahead of the official Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo, 0.144s and 0.386s behind respectively, who complete the front row of the grid.

Maverick Vinales took the Yamaha M1 Factory to fourth position, ahead of the Ducati of a great Danilo Petrucci, riding the GP17 of Team Pramac and the M1 Sat of Team Tech 3 of Johann Zarco.

Valentino Rossi did not go beyond the seventh fastest time and will therefore open the third row. The Yamaha rider from Pesaro suffers a gap from the top of 0.747s and precedes the Hondas of Dani Pedrosa and Cal Crutchlow.

Fourth row for Andrea Iannone on Suzuki and for the Ducatis of Karel Abraham and Loriz Baz. For Marc Marquez it is the fifth pole of the season, the #42 in MotoGP, the #70 in his career.

Below is the Live Qualifications (to be read from bottom to top)

Fourth row for Iannone, Abraham and Baz.

Third row for Rossi, Pedrosa and Crutchlow.

Second row for Vinales, Petrucci and Zarco.

Checkered flag, 🏁 pole goes to Marc Marquez, with Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo on the front row.

Fourth time for Petrucci, while Dovizioso has one last attempt.

Marc Marquez lowered his time again, setting a time of 1'23.235.

Crutchlow's time was cancelled, as he exceeded the track limit at Turn 1.

Jorge Lorenzo is going strong, taking second place just over a tenth behind Marquez.

Three minutes to go, Crutchlow moved into fifth place.

Andrea Dovizioso returns to the track, followed by Danilo Petrucci.

Just over five minutes to go, Marquez is ahead of Dovizioso, Vinales, Rossi, Petrucci, Lorenzo, Abraham, Iannone, Pedrosa and Baz, Zarco and Crutchlow.

Dovizioso goes strong (with the medium tire on the rear), moving into second place, 0.340s behind Marquez.

Marquez leads the provisional standings ahead of Vinales, Rossi and Dovizioso.

“Monster” time for the Honda rider who clocked 1'23.473.

Vinales gets the best time ahead of Lorenzo, but Marquez is "scary"

Karel Abraham takes the lead, but Lorenzo lights up a "Red" helmet as does Vinales.

Vinales moves into second position.

The first timed time goes to Valentino Rossi, 1'24.558.

Meanwhile, Marquez also "argues" with Iannone, guilty of following him.

Marc Marquez launches for the first lap, followed by Loris Baz. The Honda driver realizes he is being followed and slows down noticeably.

To date, the rider with the most pole positions is Marc Marquez, with 4. Vinales follows with 3, Pedrosa with 2 and Zarco with 1.

Green light, Go!🚦

Q2 – Soon Marquez, Vinales, Pedrosa, Rossi, Petrucci, Iannone, Dovizioso, Lorenzo, Zarco, Baz, Abraham and Crutchlow will be on track for the final phase of qualifying.

Q1 finished, the checkered flag waves 🏁, Danilo Petrucci and Dani Pedrosa enter Q2, who in a few minutes will compete for the pole of the Austrian Grand Prix.

The Briton loses at T4 and remains third.

Less than a minute to go, “Red” helmet for Redding.

1'23.754, best time for Danilo Petrucci, riding the Pramac Racing Ducati GP17.

Second half for Redding, while Petrucci is ahead at T3.

“Red” helmet at T1 for Redding, the Briton also has the advantage at T2, while at T3 he loses a little.

Less than five minutes to go, soon everyone will be on the track looking for the decisive attack.

Dani Pedrosa in action during Q1 at the Red Bull Ring

1:23.924, best time save #DP26 after the first tours. 9 mins and Dani is there #Q2 provisionally. It comes red again! ¡Ánimo! pic.twitter.com/UkahC53SF6

- Box_Repsol (@box_repsol) August 12th, 2017

Danilo Petrucci is still struggling, fifth and ahead of Jonas Folger and Pol Espargarò.

The riders return to the pits to put on "fresh" tyres, including Pedrosa and Redding.

Pedrosa and Barberà have currently qualified for Q2, but there are still seven minutes to go until the end of the session.

Pedrosa is still going strong, while Mika Kallio, riding the KTM, moves into fourth position.

Braking error for Aleix Espargarò, who runs with the helmet graphics dedicated to Angel Nieto.

Pedrosa takes the lead with 1.23'924.

“Pioggia” by Caschi “Rossi”, lit by Barbrà, Pedrosa and Miller.

The first timed times see Barberà in the lead with 1.24'687. Redding, Pedrosa and Miller follow.

Alvaro Bautista in action at the Red Bull Ring

It's time for Q1.
Let's go, @ 19Bautista!!#AustrianGP ???????? pic.twitter.com/tBmj7vAZZa

— Aspar Team MOTOGP (@asparteam) August 12th, 2017

The first to leave the pits are Scott Redding, Hector Barberà and Alvaro Bautista.

Q1 begins, drivers immediately on track in search of the best performance. The top two classified will enter Q2, where the pole position of the Austrian GP will be contested.

Q1 – A few minutes until the start of Q1. The riders are inside their boxes and ready to get on the bike.

FP4 finished, Marquez ahead of Vinales, Pedrosa and Zarco. Fifth, sixth and seventh times for Andrea Iannone, Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi. Click here for the FP4 report.

Stay tuned, the Austrian Grand Prix is ​​scheduled for Sunday on the Spielberg circuit,
eleventh race of the 2017 MotoGP, which you can follow live from this site.

From 14pm on Saturday 10th August live qualifying, which puts the pole position up for grabs and on Sunday 12th August connection from 13pm and 13pm for the race.

The FP3 contested this morning in the dry determined the riders who will go directly to Q2:
Marc Marquez, Johann Zarco, Andrea Iannone, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi, Maverick Vinales, Loris Baz, Karel Abraham, Cal Crutchlow and Scott Redding.

Among others, Dani Pedrosa and Danilo Petrucci will be forced to compete in Q1, and to access Q2 they will have to reach the first two positions in the aforementioned Q1.

The world championship ranking is led by Marc Marquez, followed by Maverick Vinales, Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa.

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Photos: Alex Farinelli