The Metis Gilera snatched back pole from Toth Aprilia's arch-rival Hector Barbera in the dying seconds of the 45-minute session thanks to a 1:45.168 lap, which put him back ahead of the Spaniard by 0.369 seconds.
Barbera had shot to the top of the times with three minutes of the session still to go, to break Simoncelli and Red Bull KTM's Hiroshi Aoyama battle for the top of the timesheets.
But the Japanese ultimately qualified only fifth, after his time was also bettered by teammate Mika Kallio, who will start third, and Lotus Aprilia's Alex Debon in fourth.
Aspar Aprilia's Alvaro Bautista, the winner of the last race at Misano, qualified sixth, ahead of Mattia Pasini, who crashed his Polaris Aprilia at the half-hour point and hurt his right hand.
Bautista's teammate Hector Faubel will start the race from the eighth spot, followed by Auto Kelly Aprilia's Lukas Pesek and Julian Simon on the Repsol KTM.
Thomas Luthi did not take part in the session after high-siding over his Aprilia and crashing heavily this morning. The Swiss briefly lost consciousness, but ultimately only suffered a concussion and a thumb injury, ruling him out of tomorrow's race.
Pos Rider Bike Time 1. Marco Simoncelli Gilera 1:45.168 2. Hector Barbera Aprilia 1:45.537 + 0.369 3. Mika Kallio KTM 1:45.563 + 0.395 4. Alex Debon Aprilia 1:45.601 + 0.433 5. Hiroshi Aoyama KTM 1:45.850 + 0.682 6. Alvaro Bautista Aprilia 1:46.174 + 1.006 7. Mattia Pasini Aprilia 1:46.322 + 1.154 8. Hector Faubel Aprilia 1:46.360 + 1.192 9. Lukas Pesek Aprilia 1:46.370 + 1.202 10. Julian Simon KTM 1:46.687 + 1.519 11. Yuki Takahashi Honda 1:46.739 + 1.571 12. Aleix Espargaro Aprilia 1:46.835 + 1.667 13. R.Wilairot Honda 1:46.847 + 1.679 14. R.Locatelli Gilera 1:47.049 + 1.881 15. Karel Abraham Aprilia 1:47.974 + 2.806 16. Stefano Bianco Gilera 1:48.620 + 3.452 17. Manuel Hernandez Aprilia 1:49.024 + 3.856 18. D.T.Pradita Yamaha 1:49.089 + 3.921 19. S.G.Giorgi Gilera 1:49.666 + 4.498 20. Imre Toth Aprilia 1:49.758 + 4.590 21. Alex Baldolini Aprilia 1:50.694 + 5.526 22. Eugene Laverty Aprilia 1:51.097 + 5.929 23. Barrett Long Yamaha 1:52.384 + 7.216
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