Marc Marquez on pole position for the Aragon MotoGP wasn’t a surprise, as the 2024 double winn🍸er continued his domination of this year’s event.

But after blasting to the top on his first flying lap of Qualifyi🎃ng 2, the Ducati Lenovo star ‘exaggerated’ too much at the start of his second run.

After backing out of th🎶e lap, Marquez suddenly found himself pushed to third - on the dirty side of the grid - by Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli.

The eight-time world champion’s next lap restored order but was also ❀far from perfect, his GP25 getti🌸ng out of shape on the way to a narrow 0.260s advantage over younger brother Alex.

“The first lap on with the first tyre was clean, even if I just did one lap and then I stopped because, already it was a ‘45.9,” Marc said.

“But then I exaggerated too much, trying 💖to be too fast, and I even los🍌e time.

“Of course, the riding style for the main race an❀d the sprint race is different. But yeah, that [pole] lap was not the smoothest of my life! But let’s see if we can keep going.”

Alex, also Marc’s closest title r♛ival, bounced back from a crash in final pಌractice that left him with only one GP24 machine for qualifying.

“To understand the crash was quite easy,” he said in parc ferme. “I went too fast at that point for the number of lapsᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ that the tyres had. I was just a little bit too optimistic to go into that corner with that speed and I lost the front.

“The mechanics are not here [in parc ferme] because they 🐟are in the garage already working wꦑith the bike because it was quite damaged.

“But later on, I did a reset [before qualifying].♐ The goal was to be in the front row, and on the right or in the middle of the grid.

“I’m happy to be on t🌺he front row. We know that Marc is faster than us here but we're cl♏oser compared to yesterday.

“So we'll try to do our maximum and to min🎃imise the points d🎃ifference.”

Marc starts the Aragon Sprint with a 24-point MotoGP title lead over Alex.