Aspar Team Press Release: Aleix Espargaró grabbed the headlines on the second day of the GP of Catalunya today, the local rider claiming an impressive pole position after battling throughout qualifying with two World Champions in the shape of Marc Márquez and Jorge Lorenzo. The three-way battle turned into four in the dying moments of the session as Espargaró's team-mate Maverick Viñales closed to within 0.083 seconds and sealed a memorable one-two for Suzuki. It is the first pole position for the Japanese factory since 2007 (Assen) and with four Spanish riders in the top five positions on the grid the home crowd will be hoping for an all-Spanish podium in tomorrow's race. Nicky Hayden made a strong start to the GP of Catalunya yesterday with a strong pace and fast lap time in the opening free practice session of the weekend, but it has taken several sessions for the POWER ELECTRONICS Aspar rider to improve on that effort. The American was finally able to find an extra couple of tenths in qualifying this afternoon but it wasn't enough to move him significantly back up the order and he will start from eighteenth on the grid. On the other side of the garage his team-mate Eugene Laverty has to dust himself down from two crashes today. The Irishman thankfully emerged unscathed from both and will start the race from 22nd position. 
Nicky Hayden #69: 18th - 1.42.485 “We made a promising start to the weekend yesterday with a 1'42.6 in the first session. We set the time at the end of the session on a new set of soft tires but I had a steady pace in the low 1'43s so it was a good start. As the weekend has progressed the situation has not improved and we have dropped down the order. We have played around quite a lot with the bike and improved some things but we can't be happy with the position today. I know the bike has better potential than this and we ought to be faster. We knew how important qualifying was today and we wanted to be higher up than this. My pace was decent but we didn't get the fast lap in. We have work to do on the stability of the bike in corner exit so hopefully we can find some improvements in the morning and have a good race.” 
Eugene Laverty #50: 22nd - 1.42.971 “Today has been a bit of a tough day for us, with two crashes – one in turn five and one in turn three. The first one was stupid and I am annoyed about it, the second one I lost the front. We have worked hard all weekend on the rear but we are still having some problems. Both bikes are similar but I prefer my number one machine and after the crash I had to go into qualifying on the second one. Yesterday was positive and we found some solutions but today wasn't as straightforward. Hopefully we can turn things around tomorrow and enjoy the race.” For more information: www.teamaspar.com 
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