Aprilia carried its domination of the Assen MotoGP weekend into qualifying, where it claimed the top four positions.

It was Jorge Martin who emerged on top, taking his first pole for Aprilia as his last pole had come in the October of his title-winning 2024 season with Pramac Ducati at Phillip Island.

But Trackhouse's Raul Fernandez had a lap faster than Martin's deleted for a track limits offence, denying him what would have been his first MotoGP pole.

Fernandez still managed a legal lap good enough for fourth in the all-Aprilia top four behind his team-mate Ai Ogura and the second works bike of championship leader Marco Bezzecchi.

Ducati was not far behind Aprilia on pace but couldn't break through its position dominance.

Pecco Bagnaia was its top representative in fifth ahead of VR46's Fabio Di Giannantonio, as Marc Marquez lost two laps to track limits deletion and was only seventh - his worst 2026 qualifying position so far.

Despite his KTM again suddenly cutting out in both the early practice session and Q2, Pedro Acosta qualified eighth.

Yamaha and Honda had underwhelming Fridays but burst through to Q2 anyway thanks to great efforts by Fabio Quartararo and Joan Mir respectively. They went on to qualify ninth and 10th.

Their Q1 achievements were helped by Diogo Moreira crashing his LCR Honda and VR46's Franco Morbidelli - who has a three-place grid penalty anyway for dawdling on the racing line ahead of Enea Bastianini yesterday - losing time through the final chicane on what looked like a Q1-topping lap.

Fermin Aldeguer was ruled out of the rest of the weekend on Saturday morning having suffered a fractured vertebra in his Friday crash.

His Gresini team-mate Alex Marquez was passed fit after his own similarly violent crash but having earned a Q2 place yesterday he opted to sit out qualifying and settle for 12th on the grid so he could conserve energy for the sprint race. He had participated successfully in the practice session before qualifying.