Repsol Honda Team’s Jorge Lorenzo made it through to Q2 at the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas after topping Q1 with a 2:05.855, narrowly ahead of Mission Winnow Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci.
The Qatar Grand Prix winner and the man currently second in the MotoGP™ World Championship Andrea Dovizioso, however, missed out to his teammate by 0.016 of a second after trying to make it through Q1 with the use of only one new rear tyre. As a result, he will start Sunday’s Americas GP from the fifth row of the grid in thirteenth.
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Q2 gets underway shortly at 14:35 local time (GMT-5) as the top 12 riders fight it out for pole position in Austin.