Valencia MotoGP - The most important qualifying of the season as it happened
Jorge Martin in pole pos𒀰ition for the Valencia M💞otoGP!
Fabio Qua🐠rtararo must win Sunday's race and hope Francesco Bagnaia finishes P15 or low꧟er to retain his title.
Jorge Martin will start the Valencia MotoGP 🧸on pole, his third in succession as Marquez and Miller join him on the front row. Quartararo will start fourth.
Quartararo 𝐆is off. The Yamaha rider has run wide at turn two.
Johann Zarco has also crashed.
Jack Miller is ouꦗt of qualifying afteജr suffering a crash.
What a stunning laꦚp fromꦬ Marc Marquez as he goes second.
Bagnaia moves up to seventh as Martin has gon🍸e even faster in sector one...
Bagnaia is impoving but it's not going𝄹 to be enough for a front row at the moment.
That's a🐎 very good lap from Vinales as he🐠 goes P4.
Fabio Quartararo is currently fourth - five tenths🐠 down on Martin's effort. Fellow title contender Bagnaia is only 11th.&nb🐬sp;
It's the fast♌est lap of the weekend so far as Martin goes two tenths clear of Miller.
Martin is on a monster lap...
Q2 is go in Valencia.
Vinales and Rins have advanced to Q2.
Bastianini is out in Q1. The Gresini rider had gone back into second before crashing at turn 🐷two - Rins has moved back ahead 🍷of him.
Great lap from Vinales as he goes fastest, narrowly missing out on a 🍸sub 1m 30s lap.
Pol Espargaro's qualifying is over after a fall🌜 at turn two.
Rins and Vinales are the two riders set to advance as it stands. Thꦬe second and final time attacks of Q1 are just getting started.&nbs🦋p;
Alex Marquez has pulled off track on his #1 bike with an apparent technical i🍒ssue.
Bastianini, who was inside top two positions, has been bumped down to third by Rins who has going quickest whilst using a soft front tyre - a surprising choice as hard or medium has seemingly been the preffered fron tyre so far this weeekndꦦ✱.
Raul Fernandez i༒s back on track a🔜fter missing FP4.
Enea Bastianini is the big name who's currently in Q1, wꦆhile Rins, Oliveira, Vinales and Morbid🦩elli are some of the others looking to advance.
Q1 is underway in Valencia!
