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Johann Zarco obliterated the decade-old Losail lap record to claim pole in Qatar

Johann Zarco obliterated Jorge Lorezno's ten-year-old Qatar lap record of 1:53.927s to take the first pole position of the 2018 MotoGP season ahead of Marc Marquez and Danilo Petrucci. The opening gambits were a frantic affair, with reigning champion Marquez firing in a 1:54.411s to take over top spot, before bettering it to a 1:54.368s. His second lap kept the Honda rider top for all of a few seconds as Andrea Dovizoso edged close to the lap record with a 1:54.074s on his Ducati. The timing screen was ablaze with session-best sectors from a number of riders, with Marquez and Zarco - who crashed in FP4 -  almost half a second clear of the rest at one stage. Still up as he entered...
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