Quartararo becomes youngest MotoGP pole-sitter
Petronas Yamaha SRT's French rider Fabio Quartararo competes during the MotoGP qualifying session of the Spanish Grand Prix at the Jerez - Angel Nieto circuit in Jerez de la Frontera on May 4, 2019. — AFP pic
MADRID, May 4 — French rider Fabio Quartararo became the youngest MotoGP pole sitter at the age of 20 years and 14 days at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez today. The Petronas Yamaha rider also set a circuit record of one minute 36.880 seconds as he clinched his spot at the front of the starting grid. Quartararo’s Italian team mate Franco Morbidelli, 0.082 slower, lines up alongside with Honda’s world champion Marc Marquez completing the front row for his home race and Italian championship leader Andrea Dovizioso fourth for Ducati.birthday and will start in 11Italian Valentino Rossi, second in the championship, failed to make it through the first phase of qualifying and lines up 13Marquez was the previous youngest rider to start on pole, at 20 years and 63 days, in Texas in 2013.
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