Pedrosa the poleman after superb qualifying session
Saturday, 01 May 2010
A highly exciting qualifying at Jerez saw Dani Pedrosa set the fastest lap to secure pole position for Sunday’s Gran Premio bwin de España, with Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner also on the front row. Valentino Rossi will start Sunday’s race from fourth.
Dani Pedrosa went fastest a thrilling qualifying session to take pole position for the Gran Premio bwin de España at Jerez, as his time of 1’39.202 led a MotoGP field in which the top ten riders were separated by less than 0.9s.
The Repsol Honda rider’s 23rd of 25 laps on board his factory RC212V placed him at the head of the grid and sent the Spanish crowd into enthusiastic raptures, with the front row completed by fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo (Fiat Yamaha) and Ducati Marlboro rider Casey Stoner.
Fiat Yamaha’s Lorenzo had led the session for a period but his best time was eventually 0.285s off the pace of Pedrosa, with Stoner a further two-hundredths down the timesheet as he secured third spot.
World Champion Valentino Rossi (Fiat Yamaha) rode the fourth best time to lead the second row, and Nicky Hayden (Ducati Marlboro) bounced back from a big crash in Free Practice 2 to qualify in fifth position, just two-thousandths behind Rossi. LCR Honda rider Randy de Puniet completed the second row, as the top six all finished within 0.4s of one another.
Monster Yamaha Tech3 duo Colin Edwards and Ben Spies set the seventh and eighth quickest times respectively, with Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda) and Marco Melandri (San Carlo Honda Gresini Team) also inside the tightly packed top ten.
The only fall of the session was for Aleix Espargaró (Pramac Racing) with 20 minutes remaining, and the Spaniard was fine to continue his qualifying.
MotoGP Qualifying Practice Classification
Jerez de la Frontera, Saturday, May 01, 2010
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.1 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 278.8 1'39.202
2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 277.2 1'39.487 0.285 / 0.285
3 27 Casey STONER AUS Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 276.6 1'39.511 0.309 / 0.024
4 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Fiat Yamaha Team Yamaha 276.8 1'39.558 0.356 / 0.047
5 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Marlboro Team Ducati 280.2 1'39.560 0.358 / 0.002
6 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 276.2 1'39.591 0.389 / 0.031
7 5 Colin EDWARDS USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 277.0 1'39.970 0.768 / 0.379
8 11 Ben SPIES USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 280.3 1'39.989 0.787 / 0.019
9 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team Honda 277.5 1'40.021 0.819 / 0.032
10 33 Marco MELANDRI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 281.0 1'40.027 0.825 / 0.006
11 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 275.6 1'40.206 1.004 / 0.179
12 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN Interwetten Honda MotoGP Honda 275.8 1'40.322 1.120 / 0.116
13 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 278.1 1'40.416 1.214 / 0.094
14 40 Hector BARBERA SPA Paginas Amarillas Aspar Ducati 275.7 1'40.482 1.280 / 0.066
15 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 271.0 1'40.555 1.353 / 0.073
16 58 Marco SIMONCELLI ITA San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 273.4 1'40.586 1.384 / 0.031
17 36 Mika KALLIO FIN Pramac Racing Team Ducati 277.7 1'40.803 1.601 / 0.217
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