Jorge Martin (Pramac Racing) will start from his fifth consecutive front row start after leading a Ducati 1-2-3-4-5 in qualifying at the Red Bull Grand Prix of The Americas. To get yourself set for race day in Austin, have a gander through some stats and facts from MotoGP™ qualifying below:
1. After passing through Q1, Martin has qualified on pole position for the sixth time in MotoGP™, setting a new all-time lap record at COTA.
2. With Martin, Miller, Bagnaia, Zarco and Bastianini, this is the first Ducati 1-2-3-4-5 in the premier class, and the first 1-2-3-4-5 for the same manufacturer in MotoGP™ since Honda in Motegi in 2003.
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3. This is the fifth time since the current qualifying format was introduced in 2013 a rider has qualified on pole after passing through Q1, along with Martin in Austria last year, Marc Marquez (Thailand/2018), Maverick Viñales (Valencia/2018) and Francesco Bagnaia (Emilia-Romagna/2021).
4. Jack Miller (Ducati Lenovo Team) has qualified second for his best qualifying result since Algarve last year, as well as his first front row start since Valencia, also last year, when he finished third for his most recent podium.
5. This is Ducati’s second pole position in a row at COTA following Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Lenovo Team) last year.
6. Fabio Quartararo (Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP™), who crashed in Q2, has qualified sixth for the second successive time after Argentina. He finished second last year at COTA and will be aiming to win for the first time since Silverstone last year.
7. After passing through Q1, Alex Rins (Team Suzuki Ecstar), who is the only other rider than Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) who has won at COTA in MotoGP™, has qualified seventh for the second successive time. He will be aiming to finish on the podium in back-to-back races for the first time since 2020, when he did it three times in a row from the Aragon GP to Europe GP.
8. Championship leader Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia Racing), who crashed in Q1, has qualified 13th for his worst qualifying result since Algarve GP last year when he was 14th.
9. Winner last year at COTA, Marc Marquez has qualified ninth for his worst qualifying result at the track. He has only finished on the podium once after qualifying P9 or worse: at Sepang in 2019 when he finished second after qualifying 11th.
10. Takaaki Nakagami (LCR Honda Idemitsu) has qualified 10th as the second Honda rider, equalling his best qualifying result of the season so far from Argentina last week.