Motorcycling - Marquez continues domination with ninth pole of season

The 21-year-old Spaniard, who has reeled off 10 wins in this year's 10 races, topped the times by 0.129 seconds in qualifying as he bids to continue his record-breaking progress.

Marquez clocked a best lap of one minute and 55.585 seconds to take the prime starting spot ahead of Italians Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone on the front row.

Briton Bradley Smith qualfied fourth, joined on the second row by Spanish pair Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo.

(Writing by Tim Collings; editing by Justin Palmer)