Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP) has pole position number 11 in MotoGP after Francesco Bagnaia's (Ducati Lenovo Team) incredible lap was cancelled, and the Frenchman is aiming for back-to-back victories in 2021. Quartararo's speed has appeared to be superior, but there will undoubtedly be more surprises today.

Quartararo qualified on pole for the first time since the Aragon GP last year, and for the 11th time in the premier class overall, one less than teammate Maverick Vinales and Johnny Cecotto. Quartararo finished on the podium six times in his previous ten pole positions, including two victories, both at Jerez last year.

Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar) qualified second, the highest-placed Suzuki rider, matching his best qualifying result in MotoGP from Valencia 2018 and Europe 2020, when he finished second in both races.

Johann Zarco (Pramac Racing) qualified third, the highest-placed Ducati rider, for his first back-to-back front-row starts since Japan/Australia/Malaysia in 2018. He'll be aiming to finish on the podium for the first time in three MotoGP races.

Following a terrifying Turn 7 crash in FP3, Pramac Racing has confirmed Jorge Martin will have surgery in Barcelona "in the coming days." The Spaniard, who won his first premier class pole and podium at the Doha GP, will undergo two operations: one on the metacarpus in his right hand and one on the medial malleolus in his right foot. He has been declared ineligible for the remainder of the Portuguese Grand Prix.

Franco Morbidelli (Petronas Yamaha SRT) qualified fifth, his best qualifying result since he was second in Portugal last year on his way to finishing third (his most recent podium).

Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team), who returns from injury this weekend, qualified sixth, the first time he has not qualified on the front row since finishing 11th in Malaysia in 2019. (although he finished second).

Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini) has qualified seventh for the second successive race. He will be aiming to give Aprilia their first top-five finish since the introduction of MotoGP in 2002.

Luca Marini (SKY VR46 Avintia), who finished second in the Moto2 race last year in Portimao, has qualified eighth as the top rookie for his best qualifying result in MotoGP so far. He will be aiming to score his first points in the class.

2020 MotoGP World Champion Joan Mir (Team Suzuki Ecstar) passed through Q1 for the 14th time in MotoGP and managed to join Q2 for the fifth time along with Catalunya and San Marino in 2019, and Qatar and Doha this year. Of his seven MotoGP podiums so far, four of them came after he failed to start from the front two rows of the grid.

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Japanese star Tetsuta Nagashima has signed up to be a part of the KTM GP Academy in 2020 MotoGP and will move alongside Jorge Martin in the Red Bull KTM Ajo Moto2 racing team next season.

The 27-year-old has registered four full years of experience in the intermediate class and celebrated his first career pole position at the Grand Prix of Austria this summer. Nagashima has often shown his pace throughout 2019 and represents promising conscription for Aki Ajo’s decorated Moto2 squad. The Japanese will replace Brad Binder and will line-up next to former Moto3 World Champion Jorge Martin as the Spaniard attempts his second term in the category.

Nagashima is the latest acquisition for the newly-established KTM GP Academy; a system and structure implemented by the manufacturer to identify and develop the best talent from the stages of the Northern Talent Cup and Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup up through Moto3 and Moto2 to one of four Red Bull KTM MotoGP saddles.

 

 

 

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A report in AFP states that Valentino Rossi does not intend to join the Yamaha-SRT satellite team next year just for a "farewell tour", he said in a video posted on the official website. MotoGP Wednesday.

"I want to continue but only if I'm strong," said the seven-time Italian world champion, 41, who lost his handlebars for the next year in the official Yamaha team to the young Frenchman Fabio Quartararo, 21 years.

"My plan was very clear. Change some things in the team and wait until summer to see if I could be more competitive than last year", where he finished only 7th in the MotoGP world championship, recalled Rossi.

No MotoGP event could be organized as part of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic and no date has yet been set for the start of the championship.

"Unfortunately, with this situation I have to decide without being able to run," lamented "Vale", sporting a small beard that grew during the confinement. "It's suddenly more difficult, I have to think more to see if I still have as much strength and motivation."

"I have a good opportunity with the Yamaha-SRT Petronas team which is at the top level as they showed last year with Fabio Quartararo and Franco (Morbidelli nldr.)", Added the Italian champion who has won more in MotoGP since 2018.

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A report in AFP states that The French Motorcycle Grand Prix, initially scheduled for May 17 at Le Mans but postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, "could take place in October," said organizer Claude Michy in a statement on Friday.

"We are continuing to work in order to be able to organize the SHARK Helmets Grand Prix de France 2020 at Le Mans in the first half of October," he said.

"This option remains to be confirmed in the coming weeks and we hope for positive development in the health situation despite the uncertainty currently hanging over high-traffic events, having regard to compliance with the rules imposed by the government", concludes the promoter French.

The promoter of MotoGP Dorna and the International Motorcycling Federation (FIM) are working on a new calendar that would start on July 19 in Jerez, Spain, without spectators or guests and with a reduced number of people on the paddock.

It would then be a question of organizing "10 to 12 races" in Europe by the end of November, then races outside Europe if possible.

In the MotoGP category, the first eleven events of the 2020 season have either been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic. Moto2 and Moto3 only raced in Qatar in March.

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