TERMAS DE RïO HONDO, Argentina: Australia’s Jack Miller, the winner of the opening two rounds of the Moto3 world championship, claimed pole position for the Argentina Grand Prix on Saturday.

Having won in Doha and Austin, Miller, on a KTM, continued his blistering form ahead of Sunday’s third round clocking the fastest lap in qualifying with 1min 49.200sec.

Spain’s Efren Vazquez and Danny Kent of Great Britain were second and third fastest respectively at the Thermes de Rio Hondo circuit.

It was Miller’s second career pole to add to his maiden pole position achieved at the Grand Prix of the Americas two weeks ago.

Miller leads the Moto3 championship with 50 points ahead of Vazquez, on 32, and Italy’s Romano Fenati who has 24 points.

The second row will comprise of Jakub Kornfeil (Calvo Team) and SKY Racing Team VR46 teammates Romano Fenati and Francesco Bagnaia who will all aim to be in the podium hunt.

The third row qualifiers were Niklas Ajo (Avant Tecno Husqvarna Ajo), Alex Rins (Estrella Galicia 0,0) and Livio Loi (Marc VDS Racing Team), whilst Alessandro Tonucci (CIP Mahindra) heads the fourth row having completed the QP top ten.

Niccolo Antonelli (Junior Team GO&FUN) crashed after just five minutes and then Eric Granado (Calvo Team) did the same, though both riders soon rejoined. A crash for Alexis Masbou (Ongetta-Rivacold) and Brad Binder (Ambrogio Racing) saw Masbou walk away after going under Binder’s bike.

Karel Hanika (Red Bull KTM Ajo) crashed at speed at turn 9 at end of session but was also unhurt. None of the crashing riders were able to get close to top ten times.