MotoGP Jerez: Sunday Guide, pre-event statistics

– Dani Pedrosa starts from pole for the first time since the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix and from the front row since last year's Catalunya Grand Prix. The only time Pedrosa failed to finish on the podium in his ten MotoGP appearances at Jerez was last year, when he finished fourth. Pedrosa will aim for victory at "home", the last time he achieved it was in Jerez in 2013.

– Marc Marquez starts from second place on the grid, the fourth front row of the season. Marquez finished on the podium in all four races held at Jerez in the MotoGP class.

– Cal Crutchlow starts from the front row for the first time in Jerez and will be looking for his first podium on this track.

– Honda hasn't monopolized the front row since 2014 (Sachsenring); in Germany pole went to Marquez, who had preceded Pedrosa and Bradl.

– Maverick Vinales will start from the second row. The 3 Moto2013 victory is also his only podium at Jerez.

– Andrea Iannone achieved his best qualifying performance since joining Suzuki, fifth fastest.

– Johann Zarco will start from sixth position and is the best rookie for the third time this season.

– Valentino Rossi, pole-man last year in Jerez, qualified on the third row. It's his worst position at Jerez since riding Ducati in 2012. Rossi hasn't won in fourteen races, since the 2016 Catalunya GP.

– The fastest Ducati rider was Jorge Lorenzo, who will start from the center of the third row. It is the first time since 2005, when he raced in the 250cc class, that he has not started on the front row at Jerez.

– Ninth place on the grid goes to Jonas Folger, who has finished on the podium at Jerez in the lower classes on five occasions, including a victory in Moto2 in 2015.

– Jack Miller qualified with the tenth fastest time, his best dry qualifying since joining MotoGP.