Ducati’s Jaume Masia showed that the pace shown in pre-season testing wasn’t a fluke with the first pole position of the year, the second in his career. Oli Bayliss will start from the middle of the front row, qualifying under two tenths from Masia’s pole on his Triumph, and Valentin Debise got ZXMoto their first front row start. Can Oncu heads the second row ahead of Tom Booth-Amos and Philipp Oettl. Booth-Amos was second-quickest until a high-side crash ended his session and brought out the red flags and he fell to fifth as he spent the rest of the session in the medical centre.
