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Fabio Quartararo takes shock debut pole, Valentino Rossi only 13th

Fabio Quartararo led a shock SRT one-two at Jerez for a maiden MotoGP pole, while Yamaha stablemate Valentino Rossi will start the Spanish Grand Prix 13th. The 20-year-old Quartararo fired in a record lap of 1:36.880s late on to demote long time session leader Marc Marquez and become the youngest-ever MotoGP polesitter, while team-mate Franco Morbidelli slotted into second for his first premier class front row start. Marquez put in a 1:36.970s on his opening lap in Q2 to set the pace, though was shadowed by Morbidelli, who put his customer M1 within 0.041s of the pole time. The Honda rider soon returned to pit lane for the first new tyre of his two-stop strategy, but was unable to better...
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