Fabio Quartararo took his third consecutive pole position of the 2025 MotoGP season in qualifying for the British Grand Prix weekend at Silverstone, as championship leader Marc Marquez missed out on the front row.
With overnight rain and the track much cooler than it had been on Friday, only Quartararo was able to replicate the pace from Friday, firing in a new record lap of 1m57.233s.
He will be joined on the front row by Alex Marquez (Gresini Ducati) and Pecco Bagnaia (Ducati), Bagnaia outqualifying his team-mate for the first time this season.
Marc Marquez had led after the early set of Q2 laps - having followed his brother Alex on his fastest time - but never put a lap together on his second rear tyre.
His final lap got away from him, but may not have counted anyway because LCR Honda rider Johann Zarco had crashed out at Brooklands right ahead of him.
Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer made it four Ducatis in the top five, while Jack Miller was the second-best Yamaha rider in sixth - albeit almost nine tenths down on Quartararo.
Fabio Di Giannantonio (VR46 Ducati), Luca Marini (Honda) and Zarco will make up row three, while Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati), Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) and Alex Rins (Yamaha) concluded the Q2 order.
But while Morbidelli will start the sprint in 10th, he will be 13th for the Sunday race after incurring a grid penalty on Friday.
Provisional British GP starting grid
1 Quartararo 2 A. Marquez 3. Bagnaia
4 M. Marquez 5 Aldeguer 6 Miller
7 Di Giannantonio 8 Marini 9 Zarco
10 Morbidelli 11 Bezzecchi 12 Rins
13 Mir 14 Acosta 15 Oliveira
16 Fernandez 17 Bastianini 18 Vinales
19 Binder 20 Savadori 21 Espargaro
22 Chantra
Joan Mir was fastest of those to miss out on a Q2 spot, Mir and team-mate Marini both following Morbidelli's Ducati and the former ending up marginally quicker.
Mir then had another go at it, and was in with a real chance of dislodging Morbidelli - who seemingly realised midway through his final lap that he was potentially towing Mir to a better lap so bailed out, which may have made the difference.
Pedro Acosta - who was limited to just one bike in Q1 by a crash at Luffield in practice - led comfortably at the start of the segment, but only improved by 0.03s on his second run.
With Morbidelli towing the Hondas up ahead it proved nowhere near enough, leaving Acosta in 14th - but also as the lead KTM by a huge margin.
Pramac Yamaha rider Miguel Oliveira followed Acosta to a fifth-best laptime in Q1, while Trackhouse Aprilia's Raul Fernandez, the team's only representative with Ai Ogura withdrawing due to injury, had to settle for sixth, so 16th on the grid.
Fernandez's best laptime was deleted due to yellow flags, though that made no difference to his final position.
Maverick Vinales' KTM was the culprit for the yellow flags, expiring on his second Q1 outlap. It gave his Tech3 team-mate Enea Bastianini the chance to outqualify Vinales for the first time this season - a chance Bastianini capitalised on, albeit just by 0.001s.
LCR Honda rookie Somkiat Chantra, back from an arm pump surgery-induced absence, was last in the order after crashing at Farm.
