Motorcycle Racing - Qatar Motorcycle Grand Prix - MotoGP Second Qualifying Session - Losail, Qatar, March 17, 2018 - Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider Johann Zarco of France competes. REUTERS/Ibraheem Al Omari
(Reuters) - Frenchman Johann Zarco took the first pole position of the MotoGP season for the non-works Tech3 Yamaha team on Saturday with a record lap around Qatar's floodlit Losail circuit.
The twice-Moto2 champion's best time of one minute 53.680 seconds was 0.247 faster than the previous lap record set by Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo in 2008 at the desert track outside Doha.
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