At the extremely tight Sachsenring track earlier today, Marc Marquez (Honda), the current series points leader), qualified on pole position for tomorrow’s race with Hector Barbera (Ducati) lining up in second position and Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) third. Defending champ Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) has crashed several times this weekend, and could only manage the 11th quickest lap during qualifying. Here are the full results from Q2:
| Pos. | Num. | Rider | Team | Bike | Km/h | Time | Gap 1st/Prev. |
| 1 | 93 | Marc MARQUEZ | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 289.5 | 1’21.160 | |
| 2 | 8 | Hector BARBERA | Avintia Racing | Ducati | 289.6 | 1’21.572 | 0.412 / 0.412 |
| 3 | 46 | Valentino ROSSI | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 290.0 | 1’21.666 | 0.506 / 0.094 |
| 4 | 9 | Danilo PETRUCCI | OCTO Pramac Yakhnich | Ducati | 291.1 | 1’21.666 | 0.506 |
| 5 | 44 | Pol ESPARGARO | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 288.7 | 1’21.738 | 0.578 / 0.072 |
| 6 | 25 | Maverick VIÑALES | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 289.6 | 1’21.784 | 0.624 / 0.046 |
| 7 | 4 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Ducati Team | Ducati | 295.0 | 1’21.858 | 0.698 / 0.074 |
| 8 | 41 | Aleix ESPARGARO | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | Suzuki | 288.1 | 1’21.883 | 0.723 / 0.025 |
| 9 | 29 | Andrea IANNONE | Ducati Team | Ducati | 295.8 | 1’21.890 | 0.730 / 0.007 |
| 10 | 26 | Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 292.6 | 1’21.892 | 0.732 / 0.002 |
| 11 | 99 | Jorge LORENZO | Movistar Yamaha MotoGP | Yamaha | 291.1 | 1’22.088 | 0.928 / 0.196 |
| 12 | 68 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | Pull & Bear Aspar Team | Ducati | 286.7 | 1’22.346 | 1.186 / 0.258 |
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Glad to see Barbera on the front row. Lorenzo seems rattled, confidence shaken, the opposite of Rossi who never runs short of confidence. Dani seems in a funk also. Too bad as I hoped for a top season for him this year.
Methinks Lorenzo is in “quick sand” these days ( watch football comedy The Replacements for frame of reference)
Ggezalou Dani c’mon buddy
Going to be a rain race which favors Rossi if he can keep it on two wheels this time.
His switch to Ducati will turn things even more interesting.
I don’t think he would be able to do the switch and keep his dominance “when everything is right”… but could happen, not even Rossi could handle the Italian ride…
If you had told me in January that there would be a qualifying order like this (Marquez being the exception), I’d have never believed you.
COTD. Including Rossi – his improvement in Q this year is phenomenal.