Aussie rider Jack Miller will start tonight's Aragon Grand Prix from 13th on the grid.
The 23-lap race at the 5.078m Motorland Circuit will be career milestone for the 22-year-old Australian who will be making his 100th Grand Prix start.
After the inclement weather and damp track conditions for Friday practice, Saturday's qualifying was run in warm and sunny conditions with the track temperature rising to 40 degrees.
However the loss of dry track running on Friday cut short set-up time for Miller to maximise the performance of his Honda RC213V machine.
He suffered a harmless crash in earlier free practice session as he searched for the limit with grip levels rising in near perfect conditions.
Miller made a thrilling bid for a place in Q2 with an on-the-limit performance that left him just 0.009s short of progressing through to the second qualifying session.
“I did all my fast laps riding alone so I'm confident I have a good pace for the race although it's pity to miss Q2 by such a tiny margin, just nine thousandths of a second,” he said. “I had a small crash in FP3 and that changed our game plan a little, which hurt our chances of progressing to Q2. But overall today has been a really solid day and we have a good platform for a strong race, I have a good feeling here.”
