Lorenzo Vs Valentino Rossi - 2015 Misano MotoGp San Marino

Valentino Rossi against Jeorge Lorenzo at the 2015 Misano MotoGp, San Marino.

Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo secured a perfect pole in front of the Italian crowd this afternoon in qualifying for tomorrow's 'Grand Prix di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini'. He will be joined on the front row by teammate Valentino Rossi who secured third on the grid.



Having broken his previous best lap in this morning's free practice session, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo kept the pressure on in qualifying this afternoon, taking pole at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. Teammate Valentino Rossi also showed a great pace in the 15-minute shoot-out and qualified in third position on the first row.



Lorenzo made his trademark early exit from the pits as the 15-minute session began and immediately dropped a first flying lap of 1'32.357s. On a two-stop strategy, he quickly returned to his pit box with ten minutes remaining for a tyre-change and headed back out less than a minute later.



Back on track, he was ready to put the hammer down and bettered his earlier time, clocking a 1'32.146s, another new circuit best lap record, and extended his lead to 0.443s from his closest rival.



With a little more than four minutes remaining, he came in for his second stop. He returned to the track with over three minutes remaining and, though he was unable to further improve on his best lap, his pole position time remained unchallenged, giving him his third pole of the season by 0.106s.



Though teammate Rossi had revealed his special helmet, that symbolizes how he is being chased by his rivals, he was the last rider to exit pit lane at the start of the Q2 session.



The Doctor started qualifying by setting a low '33 with a first flying lap of 1'33.190 to take provisional fourth. Hot laps by rivals dropped him to ninth, but the Italian had another two laps and set a 1'32.952, moving him up to fifth before going in to the pits with more than six minutes on the clock.



Having been pushed back to seventh, Rossi started his second stint with two and a half minutes of the session remaining. He gave his all and made the crowd go wild when he posted a hot lap of 1'32.358 for third on tomorrow's grid, 0.212s off pole.