Bagnaia blitzes lap record for maiden pole

Honda’s Pol Espargaro set the benchmark at 1m54.775s at the start of the session, but Bagnaia demolished this with his opening gambit of 1m53.273s on his factory Ducati.

Setting a new lap record, this immediately fell to team-mate Jack Miller just moments later, who fired in a 1m53.215s having set an unofficial lap record during the Qatar test a fortnight ago.

Fabio Quartararo raised…