Marc Marquez continued his domination of the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix weekend by claiming a spectacular pole position on Saturday, beating the previous pole record by over eight tenths of a second. The Repsol Honda Team rider will share Sunday's front row with title rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa.

The fight at the end of Q2 was be to be thrilling, but Marquezs eventual effort of 137.958 sees him claim pole by the huge margin of half a second. Behind, just fractions separated positions two to four which are filled by Yamaha Factory Racings Lorenzo and Repsol Hondas Pedrosaboth still recovering from crashes at previous eventsas well as Monster Yamaha Tech3s Cal Crutchlow.Alvaro Bautista delivered a solid lap for a top five spot on the GO&FUN Honda Gresini machine, sealing a second row placing as American Nicky Hayden led Ducati Teams charge from sixth. Behind Tech3s Bradley Smith who will start seventh, the biggest disappointment arguably came for LCR Honda MotoGPs Stefan Bradl who had been inside the top three in all but one of the practice sessions; the Germans session was ruined by a crash at Turn 1 and he will start from eighth place.Completing the top ten and frustrated to be behind several satellite riders were 2008 race winner Valentino Rossi (Yamaha Factory Racing) and Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), while Energy T.I. Pramac Racings Andrea Iannone was 11th. Having moved into the shootout for the first time this season, Colin Edwardsthe second of three Americans on this weekends gridwent on to qualify 12th for NGM Mobile Forward Racing. Missing Q2 for only the second time was Power Electronic Aspars Aleix Espargaro, who is the leading CRT representative in the standings but bruised both hands when crashing in Free Practice 4; the Spaniard will line up 13th on Sunday.The grid will be rounded out by American wildcard Blake Young, riding for Attack Performance Racing. After missing seven races through injury, compatriot Ben Spies was set to return this weekend, but has again been ruled out of action following a crash in third free practice this morning; having highsided on the exit of Turn 4, the Ignite Pramac Racing rider has suffered a separation to his left shoulder and as a result will miss at least this race and next weekends Czech event.Sundays Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix will begin at 2pm local time