Austrian MotoGP at Red Bull Ring: Sprint as it happened

The warm-up lap is underway now, so we'll soon be getting the race underway in Spielberg.

We're just under 10 minutes away from lights out now, and the tyre information is released. Everyone on medium-compound front tyres, and everyone bar the five KTM riders and Yamaha's Alex Rins on the soft-compound rear tyre. There is still chance to change before the warm-up lap, though.

The lap record for the Red Bull Ring was set earlier today by Jorge Martin at a 1:27.748, but it just took Francesco Bagnaia about four minutes to get to the grid, if you want an idea of how much effort they're putting into using minimal fuel on the sigting lap.

We're just 15 minutes away from the Austrian Sprint now, and the riders are off on their sighting lap. It's unusually important around here, because Austria is one of the most demanding tracks for fuel consumption, and the teams aren't allowed to refuel the bikes once they've left the pits.

We're 25 minutes out from the start of the MotoGP Sprint in Austria at 15:00 local time. The race will be run over 14 laps, with Jorge Martin starting from pole position.

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Aleix Espargaro's late lap earned him fourth, ahead of Jack Miller and Maverick Vinales. Silverstone winner Enea Bastianini heads up an all-Ducati third row from Franco Morbidelli and Marco Bezzecchi, and Pol Espargaro rounds out the qualifying top 10, joined by Alex Marquez and Brad Binder on row four.

And that's it. Martin takes pole position in Austria by 0.141 seconds over Bagnaia who ran out of fuel late on, and Marquez in third.

Aleix Espargaro got himself on the front row briefly, but Marc Marquez bumps him off with a 1:28.292. He's over half-a-second slower than Martin, though.

While Martin and Bagnaia were blitzing the lap record, Pol Espargaro crashed at turn three. 

Martin goes to pole! It's the second half of the lap that pays for the #89, and Bagnaia can't respond.It's a 1:27.748from Martin, the firstever 1:27s, and Bagnaia makes a 1:27.889 for second place.

Bagnaia now winding up for his final lap. He and Martin both with red first sectors.

Bagnaia wide in the first corner of his first lap on this run. Not a huge deal for him, though, it's the second lap that's been counting this weekend around what is the second-shortest lap on the calendar.

Everyone else heading out now, but Bagnaia got the space he wanted.

Everyone in pit lane now, preparing for their second runs. Bagnaia has gone off-sequence recently, and he does the same now for some clear track.

First runs are completed now. Vinales is the last to complete and he goes seventh. It's an all-Ducati front row for now with Bagnaia leading Marquez and Martin. Miller head up row two from Aleix Espargaro and Bastianini.

1:28.142  from Bagnaia on his second run, that is ballistic. He's on provisional pole by just over a tenth now from Martin.

Bagnaia opens up with a 1:28.605, just a tenth off his lap record. Marquez is close, but it's Bagnaia who's fastest for now.

Marquez passes Miller at turn nine on the out lap, and now has a straight shot at Bagnaia. First laps coming now.

Green light at the end of pit lane and Q2 is go. Bagnaia leads the field out and the space behind him is occupied by Jack Miller, Marc Marquezz, Franco Morbidelli, and Brad Binder.

We're just under five minutes out from Q2 now. Bagnaia's speed so far this weekend makes him the favourite for pole but also likely the favoured target for anyone feeling like they need a tow.

Quartararo takes fifth place in that session, joining Oliveira in disrupting the KTM dominance of the session that was there with a couple of minutes ago. The Yamaha rider just beats Augusto Fernandez, who ends sixth.

Really unfortunate for Oliveira to miss out. His best time was identical to Espargaro's, but his second-best time was slower than Espargaro's, sending KTM's wildcard through.

Acosta gets his lap in, but it's only enough for fourth. It's going to be Miller and Espargaro passing to Q2.