Marc Marquez expects to have a real fight on his hands in the battle for pole position for the Qatar MotoGP at Losail on Saturday. The Repsol Honda rider topped FP3 to maintain his perfect record under the floodlights so far this week, dipping under Casey Stoner's circuit record of 1m 55.153s from 2008 with a time in 1m 54.822s to head off CWM LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow by a mere 0.096s. Only half a second covered the top ten riders and Marquez says there will be little room for error in final qualifying under the floodlights at the desert circuit, where he expects the factory Ducati riders to pose his biggest threat in the shootout for pole. “For qualifying, I think the Ducati riders...
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