As a damp track continued to dry, the top 12 riders entered Q2 at Le Mans earlier today. Defending champ Marc Marquez (Honda) took a convincing pole position with a half second in hand over Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati). The winner of the previous round, Jorge Lorenzo, qualified third for Yamaha. Here are the top 12 qualifiers for tomorrow’s MotoGP race:
| Pos. | Num. | Rider | Team | Bike | Time | Gap 1st/Prev. |
| 1 | 93 | Marc MARQUEZ | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 1’32.246 | |
| 2 | 4 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Ducati Team | Ducati | 1’32.749 | 0.503 / 0.503 |
| 3 | 99 | Jorge LORENZO | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 1’32.846 | 0.600 / 0.097 |
| 4 | 35 | Cal CRUTCHLOW | CWM LCR Honda | Honda | 1’32.897 | 0.651 / 0.051 |
| 5 | 29 | Andrea IANNONE | Ducati Team | Ducati | 1’33.001 | 0.755 / 0.104 |
| 6 | 38 | Bradley SMITH | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 1’33.299 | 1.053 / 0.298 |
| 7 | 46 | Valentino ROSSI | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 1’33.352 | 1.106 / 0.053 |
| 8 | 26 | Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 1’33.419 | 1.173 / 0.067 |
| 9 | 9 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 1’33.556 | 1.310 / 0.137 |
| 10 | 41 | Aleix ESPARGARO | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 1’33.665 | 1.419 / 0.109 |
| 11 | 68 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | Pramac Racing | Ducati | 1’33.714 | 1.468 / 0.049 |
| 12 | 44 | Pol ESPARGARO | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 1’33.724 | 1.478 / 0.010 |
Pedrosa to win it all….
at the craps table
How did MM finish in 5th place after qualifying for pole with .5s lead IFO #2?
Whatever…great to see actual racing (for a change) in the world’s fastest MC road course series!
Last year when MM broke the record for most races won in a single season, after each race MM won his team members held up fingers signifying the # of race wins. They missed their chance this year at Austin.
Who submitted “1” in the question prior to the 2015 opening race: “How many races will MM win in 2015?”
Re: “world’s fastest MC road course series!”
Correction: It’s a closed short-circuit series now. They chickened out of the Isle decades ago.
i think Rossi will win.
~sigh~
Bradley Smith quicker than Rossi. Wow. Good on ya kid.
Great to see Rossi up to his usual qualifying hijinx. /sarcasm Should be a great race, I’m actually wondering how Stoner is going to look back in his Repsol colors again. /wishful thinking
Rossi – no s–t (clue: not “soot”) – esp after seeing the results.
Anybody else beginning to wonder how Cal looks in Repsol orange?
I was thinking Pedrosa might be sweating his job to the Brit, too. Crutchlow has been looking great this season.
Sorry Jeremy.went to hit reply and I made your post disappear.l
So that’s what happens to my posts!
I can actually see the post on my machine: says it is awaiting moderation. Maybe it will be back, maybe it won’t!
It’s back thank goodness. Sorry about that. Dang prompts are too close together for my fingers.
I was going to reply pretty good showing for Dani boy considering a couple weeks ago they peeled his forearm muscle like a grape and stitched him back up. Hope it all works out for him. Would be an awful way to end a very accomplished career
I agree he performed well. I personally don’t think he should be trying to get back into the game so soon after surgery, but I get that there is a lot of pressure to do so. I wouldn’t want to see him go out like that either.
Oh, well. Poor Dani. Maybe we’ll get a chance to see if he is really back after the next race.
Yea it was good to see him get back up and ride a bit. have to test that arm. MM doesn’t seem to need a buffer between him and the Yamaha’s this year. So the pressure is off Pedrosa one would think. be smart ride smart think about next year.