Pole Position News
The Mercedes driver was more than a second quicker than Red Bull`s Max Verstappen, the second fastest in a much-delayed session that ended more than three and a half hours after it started.
Hamilton`s success brought him his 10th pole position of the season and the 59th of his career.
Honda's Marquez will start from second on the grid with his closest championship rival Rossi standing 52 points behind.
The 23-year-old Spanish Honda rider set a new record on the Brno circuit with 1min 54.596sec to take his fifth pole position of the season.
Rosberg clocked a startling best lap of one minute and 14.323 seconds to outpace the defending three-time champion by 0.123 seconds.
The championship-leading 31-year-old German produced a fastest lap of one minute and 19.965 seconds.
Despite the chopping and changing in formats, Sunday`s race will be the ninth straight a Mercedes has started from the front.
The German outpaced his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.377 seconds with his final effort.
Nico Rosberg claimed his five consecutive pole position of the 2015 F1 season at Brazilian Grand Prix.
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez stormed to pole position for Sunday`s Aragon Grand Prix by smashing his own circuit record at the MotorLand track on Saturday.
Lewis Hamilton blamed the "weird" performance of his tyres on Saturday as his run of seven straight pole positions came crashing to a halt at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Ferrari`s Sebastian Vettel denied Lewis Hamilton a record-equalling eighth straight pole position as he dominated qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday.
Jorge Lorenzo will start from pole in Sunday`s San Marino MotoGP after the Yamaha rider clocked the quickest time and a track record in an electric qualifying performance on Saturday.
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