{"id":1667387,"date":"2022-10-01T05:52:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667387"},"modified":"2022-10-01T05:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T09:52:38","slug":"motorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole-in-ducati-grid-lockout-at-thai-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/motorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole-in-ducati-grid-lockout-at-thai-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycling-Bezzecchi claims first pole in Ducati grid lockout at Thai GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmotorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole-in-ducati-grid-lockout-at-thai-gp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) -Marco Bezzecchi set a lap record to lead a Ducati front-row lockout at the Thai Grand Prix qualifying in Buriram, with Yamaha\u2019s MotoGP world championship leader Fabio Quartararo managing fourth on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Bezzecchi posted a time of 1:29.671 to take his first-ever pole position, with Pramac Ducati\u2019s Jorge Martin and Ducati\u2019s Francesco Bagnaia completing the front row on the Chang International Circuit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know where I found that from,\u201d said Bezzecchi, whose pole was also the first for Mooney VR46 Racing Team, which is owned by MotoGP great Valentino Rossi. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last final minutes of the session, I said \u2018I have to go\u2019 and not care about anyone else and try to push the best I can. I saw that I was fast but I didn\u2019t expect to make (1:29.671).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I didn\u2019t know I was in pole position because I couldn\u2019t check any of the big screens with the sun. Unbelievable, I\u2019m very proud of my first pole, but the important part is tomorrow so we have to be focused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bagnaia, who is second in the championship standings 18 points behind Quartararo, will be the only title contender in the front row in Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pace in practice was so strong, so I think we are ready for the race tomorrow,\u201d Bagnaia said.<\/p>\n<p>The championship hopes of Aprilia Racing\u2019s Aleix Espargaro, who is third in the overall standings, took a blow after he narrowly missed the cut for Q2, meaning he will line up in 13th place on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Johann Zarco, Enea Bastianini and Jack Miller were fifth, sixth and seventh respectively, with Bezzecchi\u2019s team mate Luca Marini finishing ninth as Ducati dominated the qualifying.<\/p>\n<p>Honda\u2019s six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez, who took pole at the Japanese GP last week, finished eighth.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Kim Coghill and Hugh Lawson)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/motorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole\/attachment\/tt-assen\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9019B-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9019B-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Marco Bezzecchi set a lap record to lead a Ducati front-row lockout at the Thai Grand Prix qualifying in Buriram, with Yamaha\u2019s MotoGP world championship leader Fabio Quartararo managing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1667387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/motorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=motorcycling-bezzecchi-claims-first-pole","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}