Britain’s Cal Crutchlow stormed to the Jerez MotoGP pole position in Spain this afternoon and picked up the outright lap record in the process.

The LCR Honda man hasn’t been on pole since Silverstone 2016 but did it in style, putting in a 1’37.752 with his soft rear Michelin and then dropping the hammer to put in the fastest-ever lap of Jerez - a 1’37.653 - to beat Jorge Lorenzo’s three-year-old benchmark by three-tenths.

While Crutchlow used the hard front/soft rear, Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa stuck to the medium front for second place to follow Crutchlow home 0.259s in arrears while Johann Zarco pulled a lap out of nowhere to take the final front-row spot, 0.044s further back.

Jorge Lorenzo and the new parts he received on Friday have garnered the required results as the former champion took fourth place using soft Michelins all round and he managed to stay ahead of Marc Marquez who just couldn't hang it together in the fourth sector and finds himself in the middle of row two.

Alex Rins ran with a medium rear on his Ecstar Suzuki and secured the final second-row spot just ahead of team-mate Andrea Iannone, who wasn't able to re-create his storming pace from free practice four.

Andrea Dovizioso bolted on the Ducati aero package for FP4 and kept it for qualifying. He managed to bag eighth place with Danilo Petrucci nicking the last place on row three with a late lap.

Yamaha will again be scratching their heads as Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales are left languishing on row four with almost identical lap times. The scorching track temperature is causing havoc with the works M1 - but not Zarco's satellite version - and the two have Jack Miller for company.

Aleix Espargaro missed a Q2 spot by fractions so starts in 13th place while Taka Nakgaami and Franco Morbidelli complete the top 15.

Bradley Smith ended qualifying in 21st while Scott Redding, who used a soft front in Q1, finished last and almost two seconds of the pace.

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