Miguel Oliveira will start from the twenty-second position, in what is his fourth grand prize in the premier class of the World Motorcycle Championship.
In this complicated Saturday of qualifying, the day began in the Circuit Jerez – Angel Nieto with the first free practices of the day, in which the Portuguese rider was in the 22nd position, improving his best time against the training of Friday in 1,105 seconds. In the third free practice session, Miguel Oliveira made his best time in minute 1:38.669, +1.712 from the first-place finisher, Danilo Petrucci.
The fourth session of free practice was marked by a slower pace from the Almada rider, who reached the twenty-third place of the session, with his best time in minute 1: 39,555, +1,904 from Marc Marquez, the first ranked in the session.
After finishing Q1 in the 12th position, followed by Smith, Rabat and Abraham, Miguel Oliveira will leave tomorrow’s race from the 8th row of the starting grid.
The fourth MotoGP race of the 2019 season has a start scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday, at 13.00 in Portugal.
"Today we had a very difficult qualification. In qualifying we made the possible to match the registration made in the FP3 and, although it was not possible, we improved a lot against the training of yesterday. We are doing everything to find the best possible sensations with the bike here in Jerez and so we tried different things on the bike at geometry level. We are working hard to get the best feeling. Tomorrow we still have the race ahead to make the best of this weekend. The goal is to maintain a good pace in the Warm-Up, to be comfortable with the bike and to attack as much as possible in the race." Miguel Oliveira
Results Score:
1. F. Quartararo (Yamaha) 1: 36.880
2. F. Morbidelli (Yamaha) 1: 36,962 +0.082
3. M. Marquez (Honda) 1: 36,970 +0.090
4. A. Dovizioso (Ducati) 1: 37,018 +0.138
5. M. Viñales (Yamaha) 1: 37,114 +0.234
22. M. Oliveira (KTM) 1: 38,894 +1,730
