Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Simoncelli snatches pole from Debon

Metis Gilera's Marco Simoncelli snatched his seventh pole position of the year from Alex Debon ahead of the 250cc Valencia Grand Prix.

The newly-crowned champion from Italy trailed the Lotus Aprilia Spaniard for most of the 45-minute session, but just as the time expired, Simoncelli set a lap of 1:35.408 to beat Debon by one tenth of a second.

Julian Simon qualified his Repsol KTM in third, ahead of the Red Bull KTM of Mika Kallio.

Kallio's teammate Hiroshi Aoyama will lead the second row of the grid, with Alvaro Bautista's Aspar Aprilia in sixth, Ratthapark Wilairot's Thai Honda in seventh, and Roberto Locatelli's Metis Gilera in eighth.

Aspar Aprilia's Hector Faubel will start the race from the ninth slot and JiR Honda's Yuki Takahashi from the tenth.

Toni Wirsing crashed his German Honda with five minutes of the session remaining, quickly followed two minutes later by Karel Abraham crashing his Cardion Aprilia.

Pos Rider Bike Time 1. Marco Simoncelli Gilera 1:35.408 2. Alex Debon Aprilia 1:35.418 + 0.010 3. Julian Simon KTM 1:35.964 + 0.556 4. Mika Kallio KTM 1:36.194 + 0.786 5. Hiroshi Aoyama KTM 1:36.267 + 0.859 6. Alvaro Bautista Aprilia 1:36.419 + 1.011 7. Ratthapark Wilairot Honda 1:36.568 + 1.160 8. Roberto Locatelli Gilera 1:36.573 + 1.165 9. Hector Faubel Aprilia 1:36.635 + 1.227 10. Yuki Takahashi Honda 1:36.654 + 1.246 11. Thomas Luthi Aprilia 1:36.832 + 1.424 12. Aleix Espargaró Aprilia 1:36.841 + 1.433 13. Lukas Pesek Aprilia 1:36.892 + 1.484 14. Mattia Pasini Aprilia 1:37.047 + 1.639 15. Fabrizio Lai Gilera 1:37.400 + 1.992 16. Alex Baldolini Aprilia 1:37.455 + 2.047 17. Simone Grotzki Giorgi Gilera 1:37.803 + 2.395 18. Imre Toth Aprilia 1:38.245 + 2.837 19. Federico Sandi Aprilia 1:38.592 + 3.184 20. Karel Abraham Aprilia 1:38.641 + 3.233 21. Manuel Hernandez Aprilia 1:38.874 + 3.466 22. Daniel Arcas Aprilia 1:39.182 + 3.774 23. Doni Tata Pradita Yamaha 1:40.593 + 5.185 24. Alen Gyorfi Aprilia 1:41.075 + 5.667 25. Toni Wirsing Honda 1:41.974 + 6.566

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