Submitted by Mike Lewis on
Championship leader Danny Kent set the new Moto3 single-lap record while grabbing pole position Saturday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kent's 1'40.703 bettered Jack Miller's lap record from one year ago and left him eight-hundredths of a second clear of Miguel Oliveira (2nd).
But the biggest surprise of the session was Zulfahmi Khairuddin who grabbed a tow from Niccolo Antonelli to jump from 17th to second on the grid on his final lap. (At the session's end he was bumped to third by Oliveira.) This is, by far, Khairuddin's best qualifying postion of the year having only once before made it into the top 20.
Enea Bastianini managed fourth and Moto3 rookie Fabio Quartararo rounded out the top five.
The session marked Kent's fouuth pole of the 2015 season. He has five wins this year to lead the championship by 66 points.
Results Below:
Results:
| Pos. | No. | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff. / Prev. |
| 1 | 52 | Danny KENT | Honda | 1'40.703 | |
| 2 | 44 | Miguel OLIVEIRA | KTM | 1'40.791 | 0.088 / 0.088 |
| 3 | 63 | Zulfahmi KHAIRUDDIN | KTM | 1'40.811 | 0.108 / 0.020 |
| 4 | 33 | Enea BASTIANINI | Honda | 1'40.875 | 0.172 / 0.064 |
| 5 | 20 | Fabio QUARTARARO | Honda | 1'41.062 | 0.359 / 0.187 |
| 6 | 41 | Brad BINDER | KTM | 1'41.092 | 0.389 / 0.030 |
| 7 | 7 | Efren VAZQUEZ | Honda | 1'41.093 | 0.390 / 0.001 |
| 8 | 23 | Niccolò ANTONELLI | Honda | 1'41.129 | 0.426 / 0.036 |
| 9 | 9 | Jorge NAVARRO | Honda | 1'41.186 | 0.483 / 0.057 |
| 10 | 88 | Jorge MARTIN | Mahindra | 1'41.242 | 0.539 / 0.056 |
| 11 | 5 | Romano FENATI | KTM | 1'41.287 | 0.584 / 0.045 |
| 12 | 10 | Alexis MASBOU | Honda | 1'41.308 | 0.605 / 0.021 |
| 13 | 98 | Karel HANIKA | KTM | 1'41.310 | 0.607 / 0.002 |
| 14 | 76 | Hiroki ONO | Honda | 1'41.412 | 0.709 / 0.102 |
| 15 | 95 | Jules DANILO | Honda | 1'41.415 | 0.712 / 0.003 |
| 16 | 84 | Jakub KORNFEIL | KTM | 1'41.474 | 0.771 / 0.059 |
| 17 | 2 | Remy GARDNER | Mahindra | 1'41.527 | 0.824 / 0.053 |
| 18 | 17 | John MCPHEE | Honda | 1'41.555 | 0.852 / 0.028 |
| 19 | 31 | Niklas AJO | KTM | 1'41.585 | 0.882 / 0.030 |
| 20 | 32 | Isaac VIÑALES | KTM | 1'41.770 | 1.067 / 0.185 |
| 21 | 55 | Andrea LOCATELLI | Honda | 1'41.806 | 1.103 / 0.036 |
| 22 | 58 | Juanfran GUEVARA | Mahindra | 1'41.822 | 1.119 / 0.016 |
| 23 | 6 | Maria HERRERA | Husqvarna | 1'41.847 | 1.144 / 0.025 |
| 24 | 21 | Francesco BAGNAIA | Mahindra | 1'41.909 | 1.206 / 0.062 |
| 25 | 19 | Alessandro TONUCCI | Mahindra | 1'41.942 | 1.239 / 0.033 |
| 26 | 11 | Livio LOI | Honda | 1'41.958 | 1.255 / 0.016 |
| 27 | 24 | Tatsuki SUZUKI | Mahindra | 1'42.026 | 1.323 / 0.068 |
| 28 | 16 | Andrea MIGNO | KTM | 1'42.150 | 1.447 / 0.124 |
| 29 | 91 | Gabriel RODRIGO | KTM | 1'42.230 | 1.527 / 0.080 |
| 30 | 48 | Lorenzo DALLA PORTA | Husqvarna | 1'42.318 | 1.615 / 0.088 |
| 31 | 12 | Matteo FERRARI | Mahindra | 1'42.517 | 1.814 / 0.199 |
| 32 | 40 | Darryn BINDER | Mahindra | 1'42.533 | 1.830 / 0.016 |
| 33 | 29 | Stefano MANZI | Mahindra | 1'42.702 | 1.999 / 0.169 |
| 34 | 65 | Philipp OETTL | KTM | 1'42.726 | 2.023 / 0.024 |
