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54 maltatoday, SUNDAY, 30 AUGUST 2015 Sport Virtù Ferries This week's winner is RAYMOND DEMANUELE who collected his two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. 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Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other MOTOGP Sensational Marc Marquez obliterates record for pole MARC Marquez smashes his own record to claim his sixth pole of the season ahead of Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, with Rossi in fourth. Repsol Honda's Marquez set the fastest ever lap by a motorbike around the legendary Silverstone Circuit to take his 28th career Mo- toGP™ pole position. The reign- ing MotoGP™ World Champion went under his 2013 pole record (2'00.691) on his very first flying lap to lay down a marker to the rest of the field at the Octo British Grand Prix. The Spaniard then went even quicker on his second run to set a 2'00.234 in near perfect conditions (Track temp. 33˚C) as all of the rid- ers made use of their softer option tyres. Marquez had earlier topped FP4 by almost a second, and carried his pace into Qualifying to finish 0.288s ahead of Lorenzo. Movistar Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo had earlier topped FP2 & FP3 and had been touted as the favourite for pole when the session started. The Spaniard had shown blistering pace throughout the weekend, and he too went under the old pole record on his way to claiming second, his 9th front row start of the season. Dani Pedrosa (+0.482s) set his fastest time on his first flying lap to complete an all-Spanish front row. Pedrosa was in second when eve- ryone returned to the pits for fresh rubber, but could not improve on his time but it was till good enough for third. Movistar Yamaha's Valentino Rossi (+0.713s) will have his work cut out come Sunday's race after he could only manage to qualify on the middle of the front row in fifth. The Italian improved his time from practice by over a second, but still found himself 0.4s behind his team- mate and main title rival Lorenzo. Monster Yamaha Tech 3's Pol Es- pargaro (+0.797s) was the leading Satellite rider in fifth, as he equalled his best qualifying performance of the season (Assen). His teammate Bradley Smith (+0.906s) had been third on the combined timesheets after FP3, but will start the race from the back of the second row as the leading British rider in sixth. Smith's compatriot Scott Redding (EG 0,0 Marc VDS) pulled off his best qualifying performance since Austin to start from the head of the third row in seventh. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) made it a good day for the home fans as they saw three British riders on the front three rows of the grid as he secured eighth. Ducati Team's Andrea Iannone completes the third row ahead of the two men who made it through from Q1, Aleix Espargaro (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Yonny Hernandez (Oc- to Pramac Racing). Hernandez left it late to split the two Factory Su- zuki's at the top of the timesheets in Q1 and surprise Maverick Viñales who thought he had done enough to progress. The Spaniard was forced to watch as the Columbian pulled off a sensational last lap to deny him passage to Q2. Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) completes the fourth row, ahead of Viñales, with Stefan Bradl impress- ing on only his third outing on the Aprilia Racing Team Gresini RS-GP in 13th. Forward Racing's Loris Baz will start from 15th as the leading Open class rider, with Australian Jack Miller (LCR Honda) the leading Open Honda rider in 16th. The two Aspar MotoGP Team Honda's of Eugene Laverty and Nicky Hayden will start form 19th and 21st respec- tively, with the rookie Laverty out qualifying his more experienced teammate for the seventh time this season. Marc Marquez