The Colombian has achieved one of his best grid positions of the season and will start the race from seventh place. Yamanaka will do the same from the fifth row

Collin Veijer has become the first rookie to take pole position this season in Austria. The Dutchman will make his debut on the front row of the grid in style with a time of 1:41.486. Veijer has been able to manage a very close session and has benefited from the slipstreaming of Dani Holgado, who will start from second place, to get his lap time. Behind the Championship leader and closing the front row of the grid will be Deniz Öncü, who has finished just one tenth off the best time. On the second row will start Jaume Masià, while Iván Ortolá, another of the Moto3 title contenders, will begin eighteenth after not being able to set any time in the session.

David Alonso will start the Austrian Grand Prix from the seventh place, one of his best grid positions of the season. All eyes were on the Colombian after being one of the fastest riders in practice sessions. Alonso has pushed hard from the beginning and has been in the top positions throughout most of the session. The Colombian has been close to starting from the front row, but a crash on his last lap has prevented him from fighting for the top three positions. David Alonso has achieved one of his aims, to improve in practice and qualifying sessions, and tomorrow he will be back to fight for the front positions in the race. His GASGAS Aspar teammate, Ryusei Yamanaka, will start the Austrian Grand Prix from the fifth row of the grid. The Japanese rider had not been able to set a lap time until the end of the qualifying and will have to come back from fifteenth place. Yamanaka was improving his time on the last lap, but a crash has stopped him from pushing further. Despite this, the Japanese keeps improving his feeling and hopes to do a good race tomorrow.

7th David Alonso 1:41.949 (+0.463): “I'm very happy. We have worked very well on our own and in the qualifying I haven't depended on anyone else. Crashing on the last lap has been a pity. Tomorrow we will start seventh and it will be a funny race. We'll keep calm in the first few laps and then we'll see how far we can go.”

13th Ryusei Yamanaka 1:42.459 (+0.973): “I'm happy because we are improving the set-up of the bike session by session. We have to keep fine-tuning it because I have suffered in the left corners. The Q2 has been difficult. On my last lap I was riding very fast in the first sector, but the crash of another rider in the second one has bothered me and I have not been able to keep pushing. We have a better pace and we will try to have a good race.”