MotoGP 2022 1/3: Qualifying
One third into the MotoGP 2022 season, and a lot of talk has been made of qualifying. That's a reason why I wanted to make a post focusing on the qualifying, particularly when it comes to different manufacturers and how they are doing. This one doesn't have as structured format as the other posts, but just listing off different stats.
Poles and front row starts
Starting off, there have been 5 different pole sitters so far:
Jorge Martín (2), Fabio Quartararo (1), Aleix Espargaró (1), Johann Zarco (1) and Francesco Bagnaia (2).
-> Ducati has taken 71% of the pole positions so far, with Yamaha and Aprilia taking the other two.
Adding on to that, 10 different riders have qualified to the front row:
Jorge Martín (4), Enea Bastianini (1), Marc Márquez (1), Fabio Quartararo (2), Johann Zarco (2), Aleix Espargaró (4), Luca Marini (1), Jack Miller (2), Francesco Bagnaia (3) and Joan Mír (1)
-> Ducati has taken most of the front rows with 62%, Aprilia the second with 19%, Yamaha 9% with Suzuki and Honda both around ~5% with one front row start per each.
The magical 'front two rows'
Listening to any rider talk about qualifying, the target is always the two front rows from p1 to p6. Out of the 24 full time riders, 14 of them have started at least one race from inside these two rows. Fabio Quartararo has started there the most, with only one qualifying position lower than p6. Here's how the numbers go for each manufacturer:
57% (24/42) were filled by Ducati's bikes
14% (6/42) were Yamaha's Quartararo
14% (6/42) were by Aprilia's bikes
10% (4/42) were Honda's bikes
2,5% (1/42) was a KTM
2/5% (1/42) was a Suzuki
Who made it to Q2?
In the seven grad prix this season so far, only two riders have been a part of every q2 session. They are Fabio Quartararo and Jack Miller. Four of the full-time riders have not yet gotten through to q2, they are the WithU Yamaha RNF MotoGP Team riders and the Tech3 KTM Factory Racing riders. Jorge Martín has gone to qualifying 2 most through qualifying 1, twice so far. Here's how the 84 q2 spots this season have divided between the different bike manufacturers:
41,7% (35) for Ducati
17,9% (15) for Honda
13,1% (11) for Suzuki
10,7% (9) for Yamaha
9,5% (8) for Aprilia
7,1% (6) for KTM
What about the actual time differences?
Well, this part is just to list the average time the riders from each team are off the ultimate pole position time. In these calculations I omit the wet qualifying results, because wet sessions throw curveballs and you might get q1 times faster than the ultimate pole position time, for example, and that isn't really reflective of the pace on average. There are influencing factors to every qualifying session naturally, so this isn't the one true reflection of the rider's one lap pace, rather than a tool to compare between larger periods of time.
Here are the riders for each manufacturer, listed in championship order and how far off the eventual pole position time they were on the qualifying lap that set the order on average:
Ducati
Jack Miller + 0.464 seconds
Francesco Bagnaia + 0.315 seconds
Johann Zarco + 0.654 seconds
Jorge Martín + 0.390 seconds
Enea Bastianini + 0.618 seconds
Fabio Di Giannantonio + 1.292 seconds
Luca Marini + 0.986 seconds
Marco Bezzecchi + 0.936 seconds
altogether + 0.766 seconds
Yamaha
Fabio Quartararo + 0.417 seconds
Franco Morbidelli + 1.260 seconds
Andrea Dovizioso + 1.240 seconds
Darryn Binder + 2.152 seconds
altogether + 1.267 seconds
Aprilia
Aleix Espargaró + 0.544 seconds
Maverick Viñales + 1.012 seconds
altogether + 0.862
KTM
Brad Binder + 0.985 seconds
Miguel Oliveira + 1.220 seconds
Remy Gardner + 1.524 seconds
Raúl Fernández + 1.770 seconds
altogether + 1.356 seconds
Suzuki
Álex Rins + 0.694 seconds
Joan Mir + 0.754 seconds
altogether + 0.725 seconds
Honda
Marc Márquez + 0.741 seconds
Pol Espargaró +0.612 seconds
Takaaki Nakagami + 1.070 seconds
Álex Márquez + 1.482 seconds
altogether + 1.069
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