Under the sunny skies that blessed the second day of the Aragon Grand Prix, Marc Marquez qualified in fifth place and will start alongside his teammate from the second row together with fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow.
The Repsol Honda rider was fast in the dry, as he had been in the wet on Friday.
Marc was first in FP3 and third in FP4, and set the provisional fastest lap in his first attempt in qualifying.
A crash at turn 12 during his second flying lap prevented him from fighting for the pole.
“Today wasn't easy because with conditions completely different from yesterday, we started from zero and maybe we didn't immediately find the best direction with the setup of the bike. I was fast in FP3 but actually I wasn't feeling perfectly comfortable,” he said.
“We made some changes for FP4 and I finally felt good on my last run with used tyres. That's positive and we'll keep working in that direction in the warm-up to further improve the setup. In qualifying I probably pushed a bit too much, went wide, and crashed.”
“So, second row is not the best, but our speed is there and I'm happy with that. We need to analyse everything and make a good tyre choice, which will be challenging as we don't have much data, but anyway, I think we have the pace to fight for the podium.”
