Intro:

Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo sets a new lap record en route to pole position for the Grand Prix of Spain in Jerez on Saturday.

Script:

Jorge Lorenzo produced the fastest ever lap by a motorcycle around the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain on Saturday to take his first pole position of the 2015 season.

The Spanish Factory Yamaha racer sent the home crowd into rapture by setting a 1'37.910, beating Marc Marquez's previous record from 2014 by over two-tenths of a second.

Marquez will start from second on the grid after riding through the pain once more with a broken finger, and suffering a minor low-side, to finish 0.390s behind Lorenzo.

Ducati Team's Andrea Iannone outshone his teammate to claim the final place on the coveted front row.

Pol Espargaro was the leading satellite rider on the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 M1 and will start from the head of the second row.

Current Championship leader Valentino Rossi will start the race from fifth, with the Team Suzuki Ecstar GSX-RR of Aleix Espargaro only six-thousandths of a second further back in sixth.

CWM LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow heads the third row in front of the second Ducati team GP15 of Andrea Dovizioso - and Pramac Racings Yonny Hernandez.

SOUNDBITE Jorge Lorenzo, pole position:

"Well the race is always another story, no? It is completely different from the practice, there are a lot of laps..27, so it is going to be hard. The conditions are very hard, the physical conditions are very hot. Today to do a 37'.9 is very impressive in this conditions."