MotoGP, live: pole for Maverick Viñales | Qatar GP 2021, today

FINAL. Exciting start to the MotoGP World Championship. Viñales is the first leader, with 25 points, followed by Zarco (20), and Bagnaia (16). Mir, Quartararo, Rins, Aleix Espargaró, Pol Espargaró, Miller and Bastianini complete the top 10. FINAL. VICTORY FOR VIÑALES! Zarco and Bagnaia take the podium! Joan Mir took second with two corners to go, but both Ducati passed him on the straight. Lap 22/22. GO TO LOOK FOR ZARCO ON THE LAST ROUND! They are practically paired. Viñales will win with a clear advantage. Lap 21/22. The difference between Maverick Viñales and Zarco is two seconds away. The one on the Yamaha will win. From behind, Mir looks for the second square. It is two tenths behind the Ducati de Zarco. Lap 20/22. JOAN MIR GETS THIRD! The champion wants more, who is going for Zarco, although he is far away and there are two laps left. Miller deflates, who is already ninth. The Espargaró brothers pass him. Lap 19/22. Mir is launched for the podium. Look for the third square in Bagnaia. Turn 18/22. The difference between Viñales and Zarco and the latter with Bagnaia seems insurmountable. Seven tenths and nine have respectively with their pursuers. Joan Mir takes fourth, passes to Rins. Lap 17/22. Viñales, who is completing a great career, begins to open a gap. Zarco passes Bagnaia in second position and Mir is fifth after beating Miller. Lap 16/22. Maximum excitement for the last laps! They are the first eight in 2.3 seconds. Lap 15/22. Maverick Viñales looks for him inside Bagnaia and takes the lead of the race. The first four in the same group, with Zarco and Rins fighting for the podium. Pol Espargaró is already ninth, after his older brother. Lap 14/22. The first nine began to gather together just when Viñales was about to take the lead. Alex Márquez falls!He was going 15th. Lap 13/22. What a pass from Viñales to Zarco! He’s going for Bagnaia. Rins also passes Quartararo and takes fifth Lap 12/22. Maverick Viñales gets third and Miller also passes Quartararo. Alex Rins also has him within range, having joined the leading group. Lap 11/22. Viñales sticks to Quartararo, in the fight for third place. Zarco also tries it with Bagnaia, but for the moment he can’t. Lap 9/22. The fight for the first places is compressed. Bagnaia and Zarco are paired and Quartararo is already just four tenths behind, followed by Viñales. Lap 7/22. Jorge Martín is already eighth, Rins and Joan Mir have passed him. Aleix is ninth, while Rossi falls to tenth place. The first two, Bagnaia and Zarco, continue to keep their distance with the rest. Lap 6/22. On the hunt for Miller’s Yamaha. Quartararo manages to pass him and places third, Viñales also wants to surpass him. Lap 5/22. Bagnaia is in the lead. Zarco also leaves, while Miller, Quartararo and Viñales are in the next group. Lap 4/22. Quick turn for Quartararo, who approaches Miller. Viñales follows, who is already fifth. Rossi has dropped to ninth place, now chasing champion Mir. At the moment, Pol Espargaró with the Honda is in twelfth position. Lap 3/22. Pecco Bagnaia continues to lead and begins to leave Zarco, who has overtaken Miller. Quartararo takes fourth, passing Martín. Lap 2/22. First step to the finish line with the four Ducati leaving. Behind, they are followed by Quartararo, Viñales and Rossi. Eighth is Rins, ninth is Aleix and tenth is Mir. Great departure for Jorge Martín, from sixteenth place to fourthVuelta 1/22. THE RACE BEGINS! It maintains the first Bagnaia square. He is followed by his teammate Miller.There are four Ducatis in front with Zarco and Jorge Matín in third and fourth places! 18:58. The warm-up lap begins! The pilots are already rolling on the Losail circuit. They will have to do 22 laps in this grand prize. 18:55. Everything ready at the Losail circuit for the Qatar GP 2021 to start. The MotoGP season begins with champion Mir starting from tenth position. Bagnaia does it from the first pole, accompanied in the front row by Quartararo and Viñales. Rossi comes out fourth, ahead of Miller and Zarco. Morbidelli, Aleix and Rins will be on the third line. Pol Espargaró will be 12th. 18:40. Barely 20 minutes until the first round of the 2021 MotoGP World Championship begins. The Losail circuit hosts the Qatar GP 2021, in which the main contenders to win the championship hope to start picking up differences with respect to the great favorite, Marc Márquez, who will be absent today. It is important to see the evolution of Quartararo and Viñales, as well as how Pol Espargaró will be in his first race with the Honda. 18:30. Without Márquez on the scene, the range of possibilities for victory opens today in Qatar. A priori, the Yamaha start with an advantage, but the Ducati should not be underestimated when it comes to fighting for victory. In principle, Miller was presented as the great bet of the Italians, but the presence of Bagnaia in the first position gives him wings to dream of his first victory in the top flight. 18:20. In the absence of Marc Márquez, he opens the fight for the championship again from the first test. His successor to the MotoGP throne, Mir, starts in tenth position, but Quartararo and Viñales will do so from second and third respectively. The pole, it should be remembered, will be for Bagnaia. 18:10. At 19:00 hours the first test of the season will start on the Losail circuit. The World Cup will have 21 events in 2021, the first two being in Qatar. It remains to be confirmed if, finally, the great prizes of Argentina and Las Americas will be held in Austin. Otherwise, on November 14 the championship would end with the 19 th GP, at the Ricardo Tormo in Valencia. 18:00. Good afternoon! Welcome to the first race of the MotoGP season! The World Championship starts at the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix, with the race taking place at the Losail circuit. There will be a great absence, that of Marc Márquez, who this year is again, in principle, the rival to beat. Without his presence, the reigning world champion, Joan Mir, takes center stage, although today he starts from tenth position, surprising himself in qualifying with the poleposition of Pecco Bagnaia at the controls of his Ducati. Second is Fabio Quartararo, while Viñales completes the first row starting third. Rossi, Miller and Zarco will be in the second row, while Morbidelli will start from the seventh position. The performance of the Spanish drivers aims to be led by Maverick Viñales, who is the best positioned in third place. The following would be Aleix Espargaró and Rins, who come out eighth and ninth. In the same vein as the champion Mir, Pol Espargaró (12th), who will race for the first time with the Honda today. Jorge Martín (14th), Álex Márquez (16th) and Iker Lecuona (21st) close the Spanish representation.