Aragon MotoGP Sunday Race Day Guide
Marc Marquez starts from pole for the 11th time in 2014. Marquez is aiming for his 12th win of 2014 to equal Mick Doohan’s record from 1997 for most premier-class victories in a single season
The winner in Aragon two years ago, Dani Pedrosa, is in second place on the grid – his first front row start since the German Grand Prix. Pedrosa, who has his 29th birthday on the Monday after the Aragon GP, has finished in the top five at all 17 races since he crashed out in Aragon last year
In third place on the grid is Andrea Iannone, which is the fourth time this year that he has qualified on the front row. Iannone won the Moto2 race at Aragon in 2010
Heading the second row of the grid is Pol Espargaro, the winner of the 125cc race at Aragon in 2010 and the Moto2 race in 2012
Cal Crutchlow is in fifth place on the grid, equalling his best qualifying result so far in 2014 which he first achieved at the Dutch TT
Valentino Rossi is in sixth place on the grid – the ninth time this year that he has started from the second row. Following his win at Misano, Rossi is aiming to become the oldest rider to win back-to-back premier-class GP races since Phil Read in 1974
Jorge Lorenzo heads the third row of the grid – his worst qualifying result since the Dutch TT. Lorenzo has finished second at the last four successive races; no rider has ever finished second at five successive premier-class GP races. Aragon is the only one of the four current Spanish circuits on which Lorenzo has not had a MotoGP win
Stefan Bradl, who starts from eighth place on the grid, has not had a top six finish since he was fifth at the Catalan GP
After a crash during qualifying, Andrea Dovizioso is in ninth place on the grid. With five races remaining in 2014, Dovizioso has already scored two more points than he did in the whole of last year, which was his first season on the Ducati Team bike
Spanish riders have won the last nine MotoGP races on Spanish soil. The last non-Spanish rider to win a MotoGP race in Spain was Casey Stoner, at Jerez in 2012
Moto2
Maverick Viñales has qualified on pole for the first time since moving up to the Moto2 class. Aragon is the only one of the four Spanish circuits used for GP racing on which Viñales has not yet been able to celebrate a GP victory
Johan Zarco is in second place on the grid – his fourth front row start of 2014. Following his third place at Misano, Zarco will be aiming for back-to-back podium finishes for the first time since moving up to the Moto2 class in 2012
Mika Kallio takes the final place on the front row. Kallio has finished on the podium at the last six successive Moto2 races
In fourth place on the grid is Franco Morbidelli – his best qualifying result so far in his rookie season of Grand Prix racing
Championship leader Tito Rabat is in fifth place on the grid, which is only the third time this year that he has failed to get on the front row. Rabat has won the last three races and is now aiming to become only the second rider, along with Toni Elias, to win four successive Moto2 races
Taking the final place on the second row is Tom Luthi, who will be aiming to get back on the podium for the first time since he finished third in the opening race of the year in Qatar
Moto3
Alex Rins, the Moto3 winner from pole at Aragon last year, is on pole for the fourth time in 2014. Rins is aiming to become only the third rider, along with Luis Salom and Maverick Viñales, to win three successive Moto3 races
Danny Kent is in second place on the grid, which is his best qualifying result since he was on pole for the only time in his GP career to date, in Japan in 2012
In third place on the grid is Juanfran Guevara – his first front row start in Grand Prix racing. Spaniard Guevara posted the fastest lap of the race last time out at Misano – the first fastest lap of his GP career
Heading the second row is championship leader Jack Miller, who has not managed a podium finish on the three previous occasions in 2014 when he has failed to qualify on the front row
Alex Marquez is in fifth place on the grid: his worst qualifying result since the Italian GP
Taking the final place on the second row is Enea Bastianini, who has already had three podium finishes in his rookie Moto3 season
If any of the Honda riders win the race in Aragon, this would mark the first time since 1999 that Honda had taken five successive wins in the Moto3/125cc class
