{"id":15173,"date":"2014-06-14T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T15:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15173"},"modified":"2014-06-14T22:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T14:45:08","slug":"pedrosa-takes-pole-at-catalonia-motogp-as-marquez-crashes-to-end-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/14\/pedrosa-takes-pole-at-catalonia-motogp-as-marquez-crashes-to-end-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedrosa takes pole at Catalonia MotoGP as Marquez crashes to end run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15174\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Dani_Pedrosa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15174\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Dani_Pedrosa.jpg\" alt=\"Pedrosa on board the Repsol Honda RC211V. Photo by Santosh Raghavan \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Dani_Pedrosa.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Dani_Pedrosa-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedrosa on board the Repsol Honda RC211V. Photo by Santosh Raghavan \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BARCELONA, Spain\u2014Dani Pedrosa took pole position for the Catalonia Grand Prix on Saturday while points leader Marc Marquez crashed, ending his run of six poles in the first six races of the MotoGP season.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez was trying to beat Pedrosa\u2019s time when he lost control of his front wheel and slid into the gravel on turn 1. He walked away and still managed the session\u2019s third best time behind Jorge Lorenzo in second.<\/p>\n<p>Pedrosa, Marquez\u2019s Honda teammate, clocked the fastest lap of 1 minute, 40.985 seconds at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Marquez has started his title defence by winning all six races this year to lead the standings with 150 points. Valentino Rossi is second with 97 points and will start Sunday\u2019s race from fifth on the grid behind Stefan Bradl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARCELONA, Spain\u2014Dani Pedrosa took pole position for the Catalonia Grand Prix on Saturday while points leader Marc Marquez crashed, ending &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}