On Sunday, Miguel Oliveira will leave in 14th position on the starting grid of the Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana, in Valencia, proof that will decide the champion of the year in MotoGP.
Saturday's day began with a spectacular crash by Marco Bezzecchi in FP3 in the second minute of the practice session, a crash that set his bike on fire and forced him to stop the session due to a red flag showing, a stop that, however, it was quite short (the session had seven more crashes, among them Falcão's teammate Brad Binder, Miguel Oliveira's future teammate in RNF Aprilia, Spaniard Raul Fernandez, and again… Marco Bezzecchi) .
With the bikes in action again, Miguel Oliveira sought to secure his place in Q2, in a session without history and marked only by the final five minutes, at a time when Falcão occupied seventh place in the standings (one more place than the one achieved in Friday). However, Miguel Oliveira couldn't improve his time (1m30s446 against Friday's 1m30s422) and had to compete in Q1 due to 52 thousandths, in a session where the fastest was Jack Miller, with 1m29s921.
In FP4, Miguel Oliveira, with hard tires at the front and medium at the back, did a race simulation and ended up setting the best time of the session, with a time of 1m30s762. Along with Fabio Quartararo, he was the only rider to lap in the 30th second.
With hard tires at the front and soft at the back, Miguel Oliveira was motivated in search of qualifying for Q2 due to his result in FP4, but he ended up not reaching his objective of qualifying for Q2 (advanced Maverick Viñales – 1m30s090 – and Alex Rins – 1m30s126). With the fourth best time in Q1 (1m30s216), Falcão will leave the 14th position of the starting grid of the Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana, in Valencia, which means that we could have another cannon start from Miguel Oliveira, his last on KTM.
However, pole position was achieved by Jorge Martin, with 1m29s621. In the fight for the world title, Fabio Quartararo and Francesco Bagnaia will come out of fourth and eighth positions, respectively.
The schedule for Sunday, November 6, is as follows:
WUP – 08:40-09:00
Race – 1:00 pm
