Brno 2016 - Qualifying

Compare to last year, the lap times are finally improved. We can officially say that Michelin did it.

Brno is a very fast track and definitely not flat. This conformation is against Honda which has big trouble setting the electronic. Also this time Marquez doesn't know it and made the best lap time taking the pole in a circuit which he doesn't like. He made really a miracle doing better than Lorenzo who was the fastest up to few laps before. We have to remember that Lorenzo made the best lap time also last year. Marc was also helped by Valentino that was making the fast lap in the same moment trailing him.

Iannone has been another protagonist this weekend: it's always the fastest of the Ducatis and will be surely present tomorrow. More problems for the other Ducati of Dovizioso, behind even the GP2014 of Barbera. Leaking of consistency also this time.

Good result for Aleix Espargaro who is doing well in the fast laps, we hope the same for the race. Vinales slower than him, I think will be hard to see him as a protagonist tomorrow.

Rossi fails again during his fast lap: chooses a bad moment to enter and he remains stuck in the traffic behind Pol Espargaro who ruined his lap. As long as Valentino doesn't fix this stupid defect he got, starting in a good place on the grid will be always a problem. That is a crucial moment in the race. Despite that, Rossi is confident and believes to be enough fast for the race and we wish that to be true.

We'll have bad forecast tomorrow for the race which will move the situation on the grid.

Below the grid of the last year for a comparison: