Aprilia MotoGP rider Marco Bezzecchi scored the final premier class pole position of the 2025 season at Valencia, as the top five were covered by less than a tenth.
Bezzecchi went off during his first run after having a big moment running behind the Gresini Ducati bike of Fermin Aldeguer, but maximised his second rear tyre of the session to move up to first and stay there.
Ducati riders Alex Marquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio were 0.026s and 0.044s off respectively, so will join Bezzecchi on the front row.
Trackhouse Aprilia rider Raul Fernandez dominated Q1 and found some more laptime still in the second session, which will allow him to start directly behind Bezzecchi in fourth.
Friday leader Pedro Acosta was only fifth despite being just 0.096s off the pace. He'd crashed in the practice right before qualifying, but was still able to use his primary bike in Q2.
Fabio Quartararo completed the top six for Yamaha, 0.169s off the pace, followed by former team-mate Franco Morbidelli (now at VR46 Ducati), Jack Miller (Pramac Yamaha) and Fermin Aldeguer (Gresini Ducati).
Joan Mir was the lead Honda rider in 10th, followed by Johann Zarco (LCR Honda) and Ai Ogura (Trackhouse Aprilia), with the Japanese rookie last in Q2 despite lapping only 0.562s off pole.
Provisional Valencia GP grid
1 Bezzecchi 2 Marquez 3 Di Giannantonio
4 R Fernandez 5 Acosta 6 Quartararo
7 Morbidelli 8 Miller 9 Aldeguer
10 Mir 11 Zarco 12 Ogura
13 Marini 14 Espargaro 15 Binder
16 Bagnaia 17 Martin* 18 Oliveira
19 Rins 20 Bastianini 21 Vinales
22 Bulega 23 A Fernandez 24 Chantra
*will serve double long lap
Luca Marini was 0.06s short of advancing to Q2 at Honda stablemate Zarco's expense - with Aleix Espargaro just 0.006s further back, with Zarco having used the test rider as a reference on his fastest lap.
Marini and Espargaro are to be joined on the fifth row by Brad Binder, the second-best of the KTMs despite being only 15th.
After a rough Friday, Pecco Bagnaia had looked a much stronger proposition to begin Saturday - but his Q2 bid collapsed with an apparent bike failure.
He had just moved up to second on his last run in Q1 and was improving further when he was forced to pull over in the second sector, before watching from the sidelines as he was demoted four places.
On their returns to MotoGP, Jorge Martin and Maverick Vinales placed 17th and 21st respectively.
Vinales was half a tenth up on Ducati stand-in Nicolo Bulega, the injury replacement for champion Marc Marquez - who is in attendance with the factory Ducati team.
Augusto Fernandez had yet another crash on the V4 Yamaha prototype, at the Turn 8 left-hand hairpin, but returned to the track and just avoided last place - which instead went to Somkiat Chantra on the second LCR Honda.
