Despite only returning to riding his Repsol Honda machine on Thursday after breaking his leg in preseason training, 2013 World Champion Marc Marquez starts the new season where he left off, leading the pack for tomorrow’s first MotoGP race of 2014, the Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar.

Maquez set a pole winning time of 1’54.507 ahead of GO&FUN Honda Gresini’s Alvaro Bautista, who had provisional pole but eventually qualified second by a +0.057s margin, whilst Bradley Smith was also close to the top spot missing out by less than a tenth.

Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) leads the second row in company with Jorge Lorenzo (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) and Dani Pedrosa.

Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda MotoGP) heads row three alongside Cal Crutchlow (Ducati Team) and Aleix Espargaro (NGM Forward Racing), followed by Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP), Andrea Iannone (Pramac Racing) and Pol Espargaro (Monster Yamaha Tech3).

For full results go to:

http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/2014/QAT/MotoGP/Q2/Classification