Championship leader Jorge Lorenzo continued to set the pace at Montmelo, taking pole position for the Catalan MotoGP.
In the absence of his injured Yamaha team mate, champion Valentino Rossi, the Spaniard is on course for a hat-trick of wins and will start from the front on Sunday after setting the quickest time of 1:42.046 on his penultimate lap. Yahoo! Eurosport
Lorenzo of Spain leads the MotoGP standings with 140 points going into the fifth race of the season. Dani Pedrosa is second with 93, and Andrea Dovizioso is third with 89. ESPN
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Second position was Casey Stoner’s after the Ducati Team rider overcame what was a clear dissatisfaction with his bike to move up several places on his 19th of 21 laps. The Australian did take first spot with his time of 1’42.410, but only momentarily as Lorenzo hit back with his penultimate lap.
Completing the front row after another superb QP will be Randy de Puniet, and the LCR Honda rider’s consistency throughout the session was impressive. The Frenchman led until ten minutes before the end when the battle heated up, eventually timing a further 0.102s behind Stoner to make it three front-row starts in succession.
Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa also made a late surge and he climbed onto the front row for a few minutes before finishing fourth, just eight hundredths of a second off De Puniet in a breathless final few laps.
Ben Spies also made a charge at the end of the session and improved his standing considerably, the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider following up an impressive day one practice with fifth place on the starting grid. MotoGP
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