Marc Marquez has topped every session of the Grand Prix of the Americas so far this weekend and nobody could stop him from continuing his dominant form come qualifying on Saturday afternoon.
The Honda rider took his fourth consecutive pole position for the race at the Circuit of the Americas, but only just, as Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo closed in to get within a tenth of Marquez's pole lap.
Lorenzo started the session with a 2m03.613, the fastest lap of the weekend up to that point, but it wouldn't stand as Marquez posted a 2m03.188 to pip his fellow Spaniard.
The gap was slightly larger to Valentino Rossi in third, the Italian 0.387s behind his teammate and 0.456s back on Marquez. This marks Rossi’s first back-to-back front row starts since the Malaysian and Australian GPs way back in 2013.
Ducati's Andrea Iannone was fourth, although he will start seventh after his three-place penalty from Argentina is applied.
Maverick Viñales produced the fifth fastest time to complete the top five, but will of course move up a place on the grid.
Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda), Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team), Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda Team), Aleix Espargaro (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Scott Redding (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) completed the top ten. From Viñales in fifth to Loris Baz in 12th, under a second split the eight riders.
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