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Although not closing the Saturday show in Misano, the intermediate class was not short on entertainment, Luca Marini improving the lap record only five minutes into Q2 and making an early bid for pole. The challenge came from teammate Marco Bezzecchi, who got within four hundredths of a second of top spot but the championship leader held onto a precious pole. The Sky Racing men will be joined on the front row by Xavi Vierge, the Spaniard getting quicker after a slow start to his season, although he did slide off at turn one just after he posted his top time.
Vierge’s late attack demoted Sam Lowes to the second row of the grid, four tenths off pole and ahead of championship hopeful Enea Bastianini. Exceptional rookie Aron Canet joins them on row two, while Jake Dixon continues to impress in seventh place and opens the third row of the grid alongside Q1 escapee Fabio Di Giannantonio and his teammate Jorge Navarro. Nicolo Bulega completes the top ten and will start from the fourth row together with Marcel Schrotter and Augusto Fernandez – the Spaniard only dropping one position after a late crash.
A notable mention goes to Mattia Pasini, who filled Jorge Martin’s shoes quite nicely by escaping Q1 and qualifying 14th on familiar home soil. The Italian will start in the middle of row five, between an underwhelming Tetsuta Nagashima and speedy rookie Hector Garzo. Having shown some decent speed in practice, Tom Luthi’s struggles continued in qualifying, the veteran rider only 16th on the grid, ahead of youngsters Lorenzo Dalla Porta and Joe Roberts.
Results:
| Pos | No. | Rider | Bike | Time | Diff | Prev |
| 1 | 10 | Luca Marini | Kalex | 1'35.271 | ||
| 2 | 72 | Marco Bezzecchi | Kalex | 1'35.307 | 0.036 | 0.036 |
| 3 | 97 | Xavi Vierge | Kalex | 1'35.619 | 0.348 | 0.312 |
| 4 | 22 | Sam Lowes | Kalex | 1'35.740 | 0.469 | 0.121 |
| 5 | 33 | Enea Bastianini | Kalex | 1'35.789 | 0.518 | 0.049 |
| 6 | 44 | Aron Canet | Speed Up | 1'35.803 | 0.532 | 0.014 |
| 7 | 96 | Jake Dixon | Kalex | 1'35.814 | 0.543 | 0.011 |
| 8 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Speed Up | 1'35.928 | 0.657 | 0.114 |
| 9 | 9 | Jorge Navarro | Speed Up | 1'35.952 | 0.681 | 0.024 |
| 10 | 11 | Nicolò Bulega | Kalex | 1'35.979 | 0.708 | 0.027 |
| 11 | 23 | Marcel Schrotter | Kalex | 1'36.033 | 0.762 | 0.054 |
| 12 | 37 | Augusto Fernandez | Kalex | 1'36.054 | 0.783 | 0.021 |
| 13 | 45 | Tetsuta Nagashima | Kalex | 1'36.087 | 0.816 | 0.033 |
| 14 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 1'36.154 | 0.883 | 0.067 |
| 15 | 40 | Hector Garzo | Kalex | 1'36.210 | 0.939 | 0.056 |
| 16 | 12 | Thomas Luthi | Kalex | 1'36.242 | 0.971 | 0.032 |
| 17 | 19 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Kalex | 1'36.245 | 0.974 | 0.003 |
| 18 | 16 | Joe Roberts | Kalex | 1'36.396 | 1.125 | 0.151 |
| Q1 Results: | ||||||
| Q2 | 19 | Lorenzo Dalla Porta | Kalex | 1'36.129 | ||
| Q2 | 21 | Fabio Di Giannantonio | Speed Up | 1'36.208 | 0.079 | 0.079 |
| Q2 | 54 | Mattia Pasini | Kalex | 1'36.239 | 0.110 | 0.031 |
| Q2 | 40 | Hector Garzo | Kalex | 1'36.254 | 0.125 | 0.015 |
| 19 | 7 | Lorenzo Baldassarri | Kalex | 1'36.304 | 0.175 | 0.050 |
| 20 | 42 | Marcos Ramirez | Kalex | 1'36.335 | 0.206 | 0.031 |
| 21 | 62 | Stefano Manzi | MV Agusta | 1'36.342 | 0.213 | 0.007 |
| 22 | 57 | Edgar Pons | Kalex | 1'36.551 | 0.422 | 0.209 |
| 23 | 64 | Bo Bendsneyder | NTS | 1'36.569 | 0.440 | 0.018 |
| 24 | 24 | Simone Corsi | MV Agusta | 1'36.760 | 0.631 | 0.191 |
| 25 | 55 | Hafizh Syahrin | Speed Up | 1'36.869 | 0.740 | 0.109 |
| 26 | 35 | Somkiat Chantra | Kalex | 1'37.044 | 0.915 | 0.175 |
| 27 | 99 | Kasma Daniel | Kalex | 1'37.409 | 1.280 | 0.365 |
| 28 | 27 | Andi Farid Izdihar | Kalex | 1'37.812 | 1.683 | 0.403 |
| 29 | 74 | Piotr Biesiekirski | NTS | 1'39.413 | 3.284 | 1.601 |
