Then, a massive gamble. With rain in the air, Marquez and his team took the decision to go for slick tyres, but was it the correct choice? At first, it seemed no. Marquez was 2.4 off Zarco’s lap time on his first dry tyre run and at the same time, Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) jumped from P10 to P2 on the wet tyres. But Marquez was on it on his second flying lap on the slicks, going a tenth under the pole lap in the first sector but then, drama. With two minutes to go there was rain in pitlane. The last sector seemed to be getting the brunt of the weather and it was a section Marquez was yet to get to, but the reigning Champion had 1.3 seconds in his pocket. Coming through the rain on slicks, Marquez somehow lost just a couple of tenths to stick in on provisional pole – a phenomenal effort.

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