MotoGP championship leader Casey Stoner led Dani Pedrosa in a Honda one-two in qualifying for the German Grand Prix.
Stoner had kept a low profile in practice, but was in superb form in the decisive part of qualifying, taking provisional pole with a 1m21.808s and then improving to a 1m21.681s in the final moments.
Both laps were out of Stoner’s rivals’ reach, with Pedrosa taking second on a 1m21.933s.
An all-Honda front row looked likely until Jorge Lorenzo put his Yamaha up to third on his last lap, pushing the Gresini bike of Marco Simoncelli back to fourth - ending the Italian’s run of front row starts.. The second works Yamaha of Ben Spies completed the top five. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
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Stoner managed to turn his fortunes around after being off the pace on Friday after crashing out in the morning session.
“I’m very happy with the outcome. I wasn’t too confident on the quick part of the track where I crashed but we have recovered a lot of time since Friday,” he said.
Third Repsol Honda of Andrea Dovizioso completed the second row. SkySports
Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) heads up the third row after posting his best lap of 1’22.368. The Texan’s best finish thus far was a fourth in 2007. Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team), who finished seventh in 2010, joins Edwards in eighth position, while as Randy de Puniet (Pramac Racing) completes row three with a posted time of 1’22.503 and Álvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) completes the top ten riders.
Héctor Barberá (Mapfre Aspar), who qualified sixth for the German GP last year, starts from eleventh, ahead of Cal Crutchlow (Monster Yamaha Tech 3), whose challenging first weekend at Sachsenring included crashing out of ninth place in the final minutes of the session, to finally end up 12th on the grid.
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) finished the session down in 16th, with Loris Capirossi’s stand in on the Pramac Racing team, Sylvain Guintoli, in 17th. motogp.com
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