Danny Kent’s dominance of the 2015 Moto3 season shows no sign of ending after the Briton claimed pole position for the Indianapolis Grand Prix. The championship leader didn’t quite enjoy the same advantage as he had in free practice but ultimately, none of his rivals could stop him from taking his fourth pole of the year.
Kent kept an unusually low profile in the early stages of qualifying with his Leopard Racing teammate Efren Vazquez making the running, clocking a 1:41.093. Seemingly focussing on race preparation, Danny was languishing back in seventeenth but shortly after the halfway point, he unleashed a 1:40.703 to usurp his elder teammate, aided by a slipstream from his younger teammate Hiroki Ono.
Although he didn’t improve in the remainder of the session, Kent wasn’t challenged with the other riders squabbling over second, as well as clear stretch of tarmac. Zulfahmi Khairuddin looked to have timed his run to perfection, using a slipstream from Niccolo Antonelli’s Honda to snatch P2 with his final lap, but the fit-again Miguel Oliveira still had pace in hand, climbing from thirteenth to second on his last effort.
Enea Bastianini produced a typical late-session burst to grab fourth ahead of Fabio Quartararo with Brad Binder completing the second row on the second Red Bull Ajo KTM while Vazquez tumbled to seventh, just ahead of Antonelli and Estrella Galicia’s Jorge Navarro.
Romano Fenati recovered from a succession of practice crashes to qualify eleventh but Philipp Oettl paid the price for a fall at the start of qualifying, leaving him at the back of the grid.
MOTO3 RED BULL INDIANAPOLIS GRAND PRIX: QUALIFYING RESULT
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