Australian Jack Miller claimed pole position for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez with a commanding performance on Saturday.

The Moto3 world championship leader finished over half a second ahead of Italy’s Niccolo Antonelli and Spaniard Alex Rins in a time of 1min 46.173sec to claim just his third career pole.

Having won in Doha and Austin in the opening two races of the season, Miller, riding a KTM, was third in Argentina as Romano Fenati moved into second place in the overall standings.

However he will be confident of extending his 17-point lead as Fenati qualified down in 10th and Efren Vazquez, currently third in the title race, will start on the third row of the grid in seventh.