(Reuters) -Aprilia's Marco Bezzecchi clinched pole position for the Portuguese Grand Prix on Saturday while championship runner-up Alex Marquez will start on the second row after a crash in qualifying.

Just as in Friday's practice, Marquez set the early pace but Bezzecchi lit up the timing screens in the final sector to go fastest at the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve with a time of one minute and 37.556 seconds.