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Reigning champion Marc Marquez, on a Honda, and championship leader Valentino Rossi, Lorenzo’s Yamaha teammate, will complete the front row.
The 28-year-old Lorenzo, the 2010 and 2012 champion, clocked 1min 54.989secs on the 5.4km circuit in the southern Czech city,
wiping off his own record from Saturday morning’s practice.
Fellow Spaniard Marquez, the 2013 and 2014 champion, stayed just 0.074secs behind Lorenzo while Italian star Rossi trailed by 0.364sec on a hot and dry afternoon.
Rossi leads the overall standings with 195 points after 10 out of the season’s 18 MotoGP races, ahead of Lorenzo on 186 and Marquez with 139.
“Before the qualifying I thought a lap time similar to the other time I made this morning was enough to make a pole position, but I was wrong,” said Lorenzo, the last non-Honda rider to win at Brno in 2010.
Marquez, who won at Brno in 2013, said he could see Lorenzo was too fast for him midway through the qualifying session.
“Already there I understood, OK, today the pole position will be difficult,” said the 22-year-old, who won the last two MotoGP races. “We must be happy because yesterday we were really far... and today we were closer and closer, maybe not close enough, but for the race distance I feel happy.”
Published in The Express Tribune, August 16th, 2015.
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