Round four of the 2022 MotoGP Worꦉld Championship 🍰continues with race day from Austin, Texas. 

Jorge Martin led the first-ever Ducati quintet in MotoGP qualifying, while world champion Fabio Quartararo could only manage sixth after a ꧟turn 19 fall.

Martin's pole was enough to set a new al🐈l-time MotoGP Lap Record around the Circuit of the Americas, while also keeping his 100% frꦛont row start in 2022 alive.

After exiting pit la🍌ne with Enea Bastianini right behind him, Marc Marquez elected to let the Italian through before starting his first flying lap, clearly the eight-time world champion wanted to keep his cards close to his chest.

Marquez, who was now behind Bastianini, was setting an unbelievable time🔜 as Bagnaia provisionally went top, but just as Marquez looked like smashing the Italian’s lap time, the Honda rider abandoned his effort due to Bastianini crashing right in front of him. 

Miller then replac💟ed Bagnaia at the fr🌺ont by just +0.008s. 

More drama then followed as reigning world champion Quartararo crashed at turn 19 after l🉐ooking set to break Ducati hearts with 🍃provisional pole. 

The Frenchman was back on his feet with immediate effect as he did his best Usain Bolt impression through the gravel. Determined to find his way back to pit lane, Quartararo was dropped off on the back of a scooter by a m💧arshal, before head🎃ing out for his second run. 

First out of the pits for the final run was Bagnaia as the Italian went qꦓuickest by nearly two tenths, however, Miller produced a ♛new lap record to move ahead of his team-mate. 

A sure-fire pole position, h🍷is first of 2022 - that’s the line we expected to bring you before qualifying specialist Jorge Martin gained close to two tenths in the final sector as he set a new all-time lap record by just +0.003s.

Expected to go much better, Marquez made an error on his final lap which meant a 🤡starting position of ninth - his worst qualifyin💃g results ever at the Circuit of the Americas.

Behind the top thr🦹ee of Martin, Miller and Bagnaia was the second Pramac bike of Zarco and Bastianini. 

Quartararo recovered well 💧from his fall to claim sixth ahead of Alex Rins.

Surprisingly Q1 was made up of Rins💫🐬, Maverick Vinales, Jorge Martin and Aleix Espargaro, despite all four showing much better potential at times in practice.

Following his brother Brad, RNF Yamaha rider Darryn Binder crashe𓂃d at turn three on what was his firs👍t flying lap. 

Rins ꦚimmediately got down to a searing pace as the Suzuki rider set a 2:02.723s - a lap time that would have been good enough for a top six in FP3. 

Martin, who had not been off the front row so far this season, then went quickest with a stunning time of 2:0𒉰2.487s. 

Joining Binder in the crash column was fellow rookiꩲe Remy Gardner after the Australian suffered a front-end washout. 

While the other three pre-session fa🔯vourites were occupying the top three places in Q1, Vinales was down in 22nd and in need o🏅f serious improvements.

While Vinales did just that to go fourth, Espargaro suffered a crash atꦗ turn eight, thus eliminating himself from contention for Q2. 

Heading the start of row five will be ☂Espargaro and Vinales, while Andrea Dovizioso had to settle for fifth (15th for the race).

After finishing i🍬nside the top four in FP4, race pace looks strong for both Vinales and Espargaro, however, winning Sunday’s race will now be close to impossible. 

Adv🃏anc🦩ing to Q2 were Martin and Rins, two riders who could be major players for the podium.