Defending world champion Marc Márquez starts on pole as the Catalan rider looks for his fourth victory at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in as many years and tenth consecutive victory in the 2014 MotoGP season. This is Márquez's eighth pole position of the season. Joining Márquez on the front row will be Andrea Dovizioso. The Italian was 0.225 seconds back on his factory Ducati as he achieved his best starting position of the 2014 season. Jorge Lorenzo rounds out row one, a quarter of a second behind his fellow countryman on pole. Lorenzo has scored a podium in five of six Indianapolis Grand Prix with his worst finish being a fourth.
Just under a half second back of Márquez was the top Open class bike of Aleix Espargaró. He is looking for his first career MotoGP podium finish. He has two, fourth place finishes in 2014 coming at Qatar and in the Dutch TT. Valentino Rossi starts in the middle of row two. Ever since winning the inaugural Indianapolis Grand Prix in 2008, Rossi has failed to score a podium at Indianapolis. Pol Espargaró bookends the second row for the Espargaró family. Pol won at Indianapolis in the 125cc class in 2009 and has five podiums in six Indianapolis appearances.
Andrea Iannone starts seventh. The Pramac Ducati rider is coming off his best career MotoGP finish at Germany last month where he finished fifth. Factory Honda rider Dani Pedrosa starts eighth. He is the lone repeat winner at Indianapolis in the MotoGP class and has won the last two editions to fall on even years. Bradley Smith starts ninth. The Brit finished eighth last year at Indianapolis.
The LCR Honda and Open class Gresini Honda of Stefan Bradl and Scott Redding respectively will start tenth and eleventh. Redding finished third in Moto2 at Indianapolis last year. Cal Crutchlow joins his fellow Brit Redding on row four.
The first three to not advance past the first round of qualifying were Yonny Hernández, Álvaro Bautista and Colin Edwards. Hernández is two points away from setting a career-high in MotoGP. The Colombian had finished in the points in the first seven races of 2014 but has since failed to score in the following two. Bautista has retired from four of nine races but did finish third at Le Mans in May. Edwards will be the lone American in the MotoGP race as he looks for his first points Mugello in June.
Leon Camier starts sixteenth. Camier is riding for Aspar Honda in replacement for the injured Nicky Hayden. The Kentucky Kid is recovering from wrist surgery. Danilo Petrucci and Camier's teammate Hiroshi Aoyama round out row six. Avintia Racing teammates Mike Di Meglio Héctor Barberá start nineteenth and twentieth with Karel Abraham on the outside of row seven. Rounding out the field will be Paul Bird Motorsport's Broc Parkes and Michael Laverty.
In Moto2, Mika Kallio starts on pole with championship leader Esteve Rabat starting second. Rabat is the defending winner in Moto2. The most recent Moto2 winner, Dominique Aegerter starts third. The lone American in Moto2, Josh Herrin starts twenty-third. Herrin is still looking for his first points in his rookie season.
Moto3 championship leader Jack Miller starts on pole with Spaniards Efrén Vásquez and Álex Márquez, younger brother of Marc, joining the Australian on the front row. Spaniards have won all six Moto3/125cc class races at Indianapolis.
The action begins at noon ET Sunday with Moto3 followed by Moto2 at 1:00 p.m. ET and MotoGP at 2:00 p.m. ET. All three races can be seen live on Fox Sports 1.
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