Francesco Bagnaia flew to a second pole in Aragon in 2021 and led a Ducati 1-2 ahead of Jack Miller and championship leader Fabio Quartararo.
The Italian seemed to have work after the first few runs to stop Quartararo from the power his Yamaha offers him.
However, Bagnaia still had speed reserves when he started his final run when the session’s seconds were running out on the two-wheeled lap at Motorland Aragon, which was left to its rivals to do everything to themselves.
Quartararo saw his challenge dwindle after failing to find enough time on the first part of the tour.
His starting position in the middle front row was short-lived, however, as Miller’s second factory Desmosedici raced over the line to line up behind his team-mate, albeit 0.366 seconds behind.
With a lack of improvers behind it, the starters from the front row would ultimately decide, Marc Marquez lost a top 3 start by just 0.017 seconds.
Jorge Martin will start fifth for Pramac Ducati ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, while reigning serial champion Joan Mir’s best Suzuki takes seventh place.
Pol Espargaro’s second factory Honda started from eighth on the grid, ahead of the impressive Enea Bastinanini, who finished ninth in front of Q1 graduate Johann Zarco, the best qualifying result of his rookie MotoGP season so far.
Takaaki Nakagami was able to experience the magic of his run for pole a year ago on his way to 11th
Iker Lecuona was the man who narrowly missed Q2, the Tech 3 driver only got ten and a half out of the race than the other RC16 racer Binder, although 13th place is still decent for the Andorran as he is currently the second LCR machine defeated by Alex Marquez and Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow.
Alex Rins, who won the Aragon GP just a year ago, suffered a horror qualifying on his way to 20th place Jake Dixon, the latter just 0.283 seconds behind his illustrious teammate.
Maverick Vinales, meanwhile, made his weekend debut for Aprilia, the nine-time premier class winner just four-tenths away from Q1 leader Zarco, advancing the first three sectors, leaving him in 19th place.