Repsol Honda rider Dani Pedrosa took a brilliant pole position for Sunday's Catalan Grand Prix when he recorded a best time of 1:43.870 to beat the Ducati of Jorge Lorenzo by a mere three tenths of a second. Pramac racing's Danilo Petrucci rounds out the front row of the grid.

Saturday's free practice sessions took place with a different layout to the circuit compared to Friday.

The Safety Commission decided to abandon the new layout of the chicanes (corners 14 and 15) and go back to the 2016 layout, after a request from the riders.

As a result, only the FP3 session of the morning counted to determine the access to Q1 and Q2 and as such delivered a very mixed grid.

Pedrosa's teammate, Marc Marquez will start behind him on row two of the grid with Aleix Esparargaro and Hector Barbera for company

You have to look down to row three for a Yamaha rider with Jonas Folger outpacing current points leader, Maverick Vinales while Valentino Rossi could only muster up 13th fastest overall.

“We tried different settings and various tyre options with both Maverick's and Valentino's bike during FP3 and FP4, but none of the options gave us the expected improvement,” said Yamaha's Massimo Meregalli. “With this in mind, Maverick‘s achievement of coming through Q1 shows how hard he‘s pushing."

"Valentino put in a couple of strong laps towards the end of the first qualifying session, but unfortunately he just missed out on Q2 by 0.040s and will be starting from 13th place. We still have a lot of work to do for tomorrow, we will be working hard this evening to come up with solutions that we can test in the warm up, which will be crucial to prepare for the ra

1. Dani PEDROSA, Repsol Honda Team - 1'43.870
2. Jorge LORENZO, Ducati Team - 1'44.201 / +0.331
3. Danilo PETRUCCI, OCTO Pramac Racing - 1'44.220 / +0.350
4. Marc MARQUEZ, Repsol Honda Team - 1'44.320 / +0.450
5. Aleix ESPARGARO, Aprilia Racing Team Gresini - 1'44.348 / +0.478
6. Hector BARBERA, Reale Avintia Racing - 1'44.381 / +0.511
7 Andrea DOVIZIOSO, Ducati Team - 1'44.451 / +0.581
8. Jonas FOLGER, Monster Yamaha Tech 3 - 1'44.600 / +0.730
9. Maverick VIÑALES, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP - 1'44.620 / +0.750
10. Alvaro BAUTISTA, Pull&Bear Aspar Team - 1'44.740 / +0.870
11. Scott REDDING, OCTO Pramac Racing - 1'44.852 / + 0.982
12. Andrea IANNONE, Team SUZUKI ECSTAR - 1'44.928 / +1.058
13. Valentino ROSSI, Movistar Yamaha MotoGP - 1'44.661 Q1
14. Johann ZARCO, Monster Yamaha Tech 3 - 1'44.681 Q1
15. Jack MILLER, EG 0,0 Marc VDS - 1'44.829 Q1
16. Loris BAZ, Reale Avintia Racing - 1'44.919 Q1
17. Cal CRUTCHLOW, LCR Honda - 1'45.162 Q1
18. Karel ABRAHAM, Pull&Bear Aspar Team - 1'45.641 Q1
19. Tito RABAT, EG 0,0 Marc VDS - 1'45.741 Q1
20. Pol ESPARGARO, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing - 1'45.887 Q1
21. Sam LOWES, Aprilia Racing Team Gresini - 1'48.803 Q1
22. Sylvain GUINTOLI, Team SUZUKI ECSTAR - 1'45.912 FP3
23. Bradley SMITH, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing - 1'46.853 FP3