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Result:
Johann Zarco grabbed his fifth pole position of the season Saturday at the Brno Circuit. Zarco, the championship points leader, set a new lap record with a 2'01.614 to finish the session two-tenths clear of the field.
Current world champion Tito Rabat grabbed the middle slot on the front row, one-tenth of a second clear of Alex Rins who finished third.
Sandro Cortese, who held a front-row position until very late in qualifying, leads the second row in fourth. Thomas Luthi (5th) and Dominique Aegerter (6th) complete the second row. Similar to MotoGP, the top nine riders ended withing a second of each other in ideal qualifying conditions.
Alex Marquez, a Moto2 rookie, had his best qualifying of the year in seventh. Franco Morbidelli grabbed eighth just in front of Alex Pons (9th). Jonas Folger, who won the season's first race in Qatar, completed the top 10.
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff. / Prev. | |
| 1 | 5 | Johann ZARCO | Kalex | 2'01.614 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Tito RABAT | Kalex | 2'01.873 | 0.259 / 0.259 | |
| 3 | 40 | Alex RINS | Kalex | 2'01.901 | 0.287 / 0.028 | |
| 4 | 11 | Sandro CORTESE | Kalex | 2'01.990 | 0.376 / 0.089 | |
| 5 | 12 | Thomas LUTHI | Kalex | 2'02.078 | 0.464 / 0.088 | |
| 6 | 77 | Dominique AEGERTER | Kalex | 2'02.442 | 0.828 / 0.364 | |
| 7 | 73 | Alex MARQUEZ | Kalex | 2'02.535 | 0.921 / 0.093 | |
| 8 | 21 | Franco MORBIDELLI | Kalex | 2'02.543 | 0.929 / 0.008 | |
| 9 | 49 | Axel PONS | Kalex | 2'02.611 | 0.997 / 0.068 | |
| 10 | 94 | Jonas FOLGER | Kalex | 2'02.634 | 1.020 / 0.023 | |
| 11 | 7 | Lorenzo BALDASSARRI | Kalex | 2'02.711 | 1.097 / 0.077 | |
| 12 | 3 | Simone CORSI | Kalex | 2'02.728 | 1.114 / 0.017 | |
| 13 | 22 | Sam LOWES | Speed Up | 2'02.855 | 1.241 / 0.127 | |
| 14 | 4 | Randy KRUMMENACHER | Kalex | 2'02.860 | 1.246 / 0.005 | |
| 15 | 39 | Luis SALOM | Kalex | 2'02.867 | 1.253 / 0.007 | |
| 16 | 30 | Takaaki NAKAGAMI | Kalex | 2'02.917 | 1.303 / 0.050 | |
| 17 | 55 | Hafizh SYAHRIN | Kalex | 2'03.008 | 1.394 / 0.091 | |
| 18 | 36 | Mika KALLIO | Kalex | 2'03.011 | 1.397 / 0.003 | |
| 19 | 19 | Xavier SIMEON | Kalex | 2'03.083 | 1.469 / 0.072 | |
| 20 | 96 | Louis ROSSI | Tech 3 | 2'03.423 | 1.809 / 0.340 | |
| 21 | 23 | Marcel SCHROTTER | Tech 3 | 2'03.440 | 1.826 / 0.017 | |
| 22 | 60 | Julian SIMON | Speed Up | 2'03.558 | 1.944 / 0.118 | |
| 23 | 95 | Anthony WEST | Speed Up | 2'03.816 | 2.202 / 0.258 | |
| 24 | 70 | Robin MULHAUSER | Kalex | 2'03.859 | 2.245 / 0.043 | |
| 25 | 25 | Azlan SHAH | Kalex | 2'03.982 | 2.368 / 0.123 | |
| 26 | 10 | Thitipong WAROKORN | Kalex | 2'04.073 | 2.459 / 0.091 | |
| 27 | 57 | Edgar PONS | Kalex | 2'04.118 | 2.504 / 0.045 | |
| 28 | 88 | Ricard CARDUS | Suter | 2'04.234 | 2.620 / 0.116 | |
| 29 | 66 | Florian ALT | Suter | 2'04.309 | 2.695 / 0.075 | |
| 30 | 97 | Xavi VIERGE | Tech 3 | 2'04.435 | 2.821 / 0.126 | |
| 31 | 2 | Jesko RAFFIN | Kalex | 2'04.928 | 3.314 / 0.493 | |
Comments
LAP RECORDS
Lap records can only be set in a race.
A rider can go under the lap record in practice or qualifying, but that is not the lap record.
However, a rider who qualifies under the previous best fastest qualifying time for that class at a particular circuit can be said to have broken the pole record.
Lap records
There are two kinds of lap records: Fastest lap and lap record. The fastest lap is the fastest lap ever set during any timed session, practice or race. The lap record is officially the fastest time set in the race.
To save time and space, and not bore readers rigid with explanation, we assume they understand the difference, and refer to lap records in both cases. It may be technically wrong, but we assume our readers are intelligence to look past the shorthand and understand what we are referring to.