MotoGP
• Aleix Espargaro has given Suzuki their first pole since Chris Vermeulen took the top qualifying spot at the Dutch TT in 2007.
• Suzuki are the fourth different manufacturer to take pole in the MotoGP class in the last four races: Jerez – Yamaha, Le Mans – Honda, Mugello – Ducati, Catalunya – Suzuki.
• Espargaro’s pole is the 100th in the MotoGP class for Spanish riders, which is a greater number of MotoGP poles than any other nation.
• Maverick Viñales has qualified on the front row for the first time in only his seventh start in the MotoGP class. Viñales is the second youngest rider, after Marc Marquez, to qualify on the front row in MotoGP class since it was introduced as the premier-class of grand prix racing in 2002.
• This is the first time that Suzuki riders have taken the top two places on the grid since the Spanish 500cc GP in 1993 when Kevin Schwantz was on pole and Alex Barros was in second place on the grid.
• Both Espargaro and Viñales will be attempting to give Suzuki their first podium finish since Loris Capirossi finished third at the Czech GP in 2008.
• Jorge Lorenzo, who is on the front row for the fifth time this year, is aiming to win four successive races for the first time in his grand prix career.
• Marc Marquez heads the second row of the grid – only the second time in 2015 that he has failed to get onto the front row. Of the twenty MotoGP wins for Marquez, only one has been achieved when he has not started from the front row, at Valencia last year when he was fifth fastest qualifier.
• For just the second time ever in the premier-class of grand prix racing Spanish riders have filled the top four places on the grid; the only other time was in Argentina last year.
• Andrea Dovizioso is the highest placed Ducati rider in qualifying, in fifth place on the grid. Dovizioso has been the first Ducati rider across the line for the last two years in Catalunya; finishing eighth last year and seventh in 2013.
• Starting from the final place on the second row is Dani Pedrosa, who has finished on the podium in Catalunya six times in the last seven years, including a win in 2008.
• In seventh place on the grid is Valentino Rossi, the fifth time this year he has started from the third row. Rossi has finished on the podium at the last ten successive MotoGP races since he crashed in Aragon last year.
• Bradley Smith is the eighth fastest qualifier and is the highest placed Satellite rider on the grid.
• Cal Crutchlow is in ninth place on the grid, which is his worst qualifying result since he was 12th fastest qualifier at the opening race of the year in Qatar.
• The pole position qualifier from two weeks ago at Mugello, Andrea Iannone, has qualified in 12th place on the grid with a time just 0.978 seconds slower than the pole position lap by Espargaro.

Moto2
• Johann Zarco starts from pole for the second time this year. His other pole was in Argentina, when he took his only victory so far in 2015. Zarco is the first French rider to have two or more poles in a season in the intermediate-class of grand prix racing since Randy de Puniet was on pole twice in the 250cc class in 2004.
• Jonas Folger starts from second place on the grid – his best qualifying result since he was on pole at Le Mans last year.
• Tito Rabat is in third place on the grid, which is his sixth front row start of the year. Rabat will be attempting to repeat the back-to-back wins that he had at Mugello and Catalunya last year.
• Dominique Aegerter, who heads the second row of the grid, scored his first podium of 2015 two weeks ago at Mugello when he finished third.
• Sam Lowes is in fifth place on the grid and is the only rider not riding a Kalex in the top fourteen places on the grid.
• Luis Salom, who is in sixth place on the grid, won the Moto3 race in Catalunya two years ago.

Moto3
• For the first time since the Moto3 class was introduced in 2012 all the riders on the front row of the grid are Honda mounted.
• Enea Bastianini is on pole for the first time in his GP career; his only other front row start was at Catalunya last year when he went on to finish on the podium for the first time, in second place.
• Danny Kent is on the front row for the fifth time in 2015. Kent is aiming to become the first British rider to take four or more GP wins in a single season since Barry Sheene took six 500cc GP wins in 1977.
• Jorge Navarro, who is on the front row for the second time this year, finished seventh two weeks ago at Mugello - his best result so far in grand prix racing.
• Heading the second row of the grid is Nico Antonelli, who will be aiming to take his first grand prix podium finish.
• Miguel Oliveira has qualified in fifth place on the grid. Oliveira, the winner of the Moto3 race in Italy two weeks ago, has never managed to finish on the podium in back-to-back races.
• Starting from the final place on the second row is third place finisher in Catalunya last year, Efren Vazquez, who has crashed out of the last two Moto3 races.