Twenty minutes at the end of formal qualifications, the classical cloud peeps the Mugello International Circuit track wet enough not to offer pilots the opportunity to improve and give the assault on the pole. He was ahead of its time, its own way, Casey Stoner : 1’48 “034, a new lap record (the best joke 2008 pole from Valentino Rossi, 1’48″ 130) which is the fifth pole position in eight races, 27 ° MotoGP, MotoGP 31 ° in his career.

With this “Tempone” the leader of the world has not experienced opponents: the ranking sliding Ben Spies, a veteran of the first statement in MotoGP at Mugello, pay 4 / 10. Not least Marco Simoncelli , third to complete the front row with 451 thousandths of a disadvantage, enough to leave behind in order Andrea Dovizioso, Jorge Lorenzo and Colin Edwards unable to improve in the final minutes of Attibassi.

If Casey Stoner shows at ease in all conditions, the gap does not change from the top (1 “8) for Valentino Rossi once again grappling with a qualifying session to forget. Twelfth on the grid, fourth row at Jerez and Assen, more so than at Silverstone (13th), but still in a season where it has never gone beyond the 7th time in a row and the third test.

It promises to be a race issue, perhaps the most difficult for Ducati at Mugello in recent years, with only 9 ° between Nicky Hayden Dani Pedrosa (8 th to the back) and Hector Barbera with GP11 “Sat” Aspar team. With sixteen riders at the start without the complicity of Loris Capirossi, close the group Alvaro Bautista, Randy de Puniet and Toni Elias, hoping for rain tomorrow should not come. The expected 100,000 spectators and the people of ” do not sleep at Mugello “thank you ..

MotoGP World Championship 2011
Mugello Qualifying Standings

01 – Casey Stoner – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’48 .034
02 – Ben Spies – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0445 +
03 – Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 0451 +
04 – Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 0660 +
05 – Jorge Lorenzo – Yamaha Factory Racing Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0722 +
06 – Colin Edwards – Tech 3 Yamaha Monster – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0940 +
07 – Cal Crutchlow – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – + 0987
08 – Dani Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1364 +
09 – Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – + 1475
10 – Hector Barbera – Mapfre Aspar Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – 1629 +
11 – Karel Abraham – Motoracing Cardion AB – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – 1644 +
12 – Valentino Rossi – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11.1 – 1868 +
13 – Hiroshi Aoyama – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 2122 +
14 – Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki – Suzuki GSV-R – 2426 +
15 – Randy De Puniet – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP11 – 2617 +
16 – Toni Elias – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – 2708 +

If you had to choose a circuit, probably Andrea Dovizioso at this time would surely aimed at Motegi to win the first pole position of his career in MotoGP. This is too important in this sensitive, with the choices they want out of the Honda Repsol team official “contributed” to the Gresini Racing, with the need to take a good result on a weekend where the absence of Dani Pedrosa is felt. Working with his usual methodical former 125cc world champion has succeeded in one go to get the first pole of his career and season in MotoGP, a performance which lacked even from Estoril 2007 in the 250cc class.

The “Dovi” has completed a good lap in 1’47 “001, specifically 54 thousandths better than Valentino Rossi. That’s right: the fight for the pole at Motegi is, finally, all Italian. The nine-time world champion, with a sore shoulder less than usual (there are no loose binding, taking his words) and the new Yamaha engine for your M1, a result that was close to remember after a series of races say the least problems. What is missing? Only a few thousandths, nothing more, even if the speech for the race changed radically.

Dovizioso and Rossi will have to contend not with Casey Stoner, the third to complete a first row with three different bikes (Honda, Yamaha, Ducati), but with Jorge Lorenzo sent to the fourth position and, consequently, in the second row, but with a step race inaviccinabile shown over the three rounds of activity at Twin Ring Motegi. The only question for the “almost” World Champion 2010 is from the rain, the event specialists ready to help as Colin Edwards fifth on the grid alongside team-mate and future “factory rider Ben Spies.

The list suggests the usual Randy De Puniet on the 7th fastest lap despite five off the track, leaving behind Marco Simoncelli and Alvaro Bautista of Suzuki and Loris Capirossi, starring as Hector Barbera of a slip, while Marco Melandri is not went beyond the twelfth position. So the top Italian in Motegi, Lorenzo to beat on race pace, unknown weather. There is everything for the race, but without Dani Pedrosa has no more interest in perspective championship sin really so fast with this Honda can reopen, finally, the world.

MotoGP World Championship 2010
Motegi Qualifying Standings

01 – Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’47 .001
02 – Valentino Rossi – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0054 +
03 – Casey Stoner – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 0104 +
04 – Jorge Lorenzo – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0205 +
05 – Colin Edwards – Tech 3 Yamaha Monster – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0463 +
06 – Ben Spies – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0647 +
07 – Randy De Puniet – LCR Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – 0751 +
08 – Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 0913 +
09 – Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – 1001 +
10 – Loris Capirossi – Rizla Suzuki MotoGP – Suzuki GSV-R – 1067 +
11 – Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1181 +
12 – Marco Melandri – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1237 +
13 – Aleix Espargaro – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1370 +
14 – Hiroshi Aoyama – Interwetten Honda MotoGP – Honda RC212V – 1395 +
15 – Hector Barbera – Paginas Amarillas Aspar – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1534 +
16 – Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 2479 +

Solution to the spectacular failure of MotoGP? Promoting the skills to compete and vice versa. Even in Misano Adriatico hunting from pole has reserved final 10 minutes of the session and exciting, especially the last attempt explosion of “red helmets for Rossi, Lorenzo and especially Dani Pedrosa, fourth pole position of the season (35th in MotoGP 17 MotoGP) in two separate occasions, even managing to stop the clock sull’1’33 “948, split the vintage. Making a difference especially in T4 by the “Wagon” to the pit straight, the three-time world champion has tamed his Honda RC212V to the pole a valuable reassembling the group from “Fantastic 4″ MotoGP.

Pedrosa, but to follow Lorenzo, Stoner and Rossi. All there with uncertainties in anticipation of the race on pace (Pedrosa and Lorenzo not far), choice of tires (all with the “soft”, only Rossi very active with the “hard”), made the bike for a race that Misano is difficult prospect. Not like in Indianapolis, at least for Jorge Lorenzo who wants to put a spoke in the wheels to prevent his fellow classical feel of childbirth, I and go on the run.

Attempt to insert in the collision for Casey Stoner, the third with a slip of the assets of the curve “Rio”, but can bring the Ducati Desmosedici in the front row at the expense of Valentino Rossi, from the choice in contrast with regard to tires, by the excellent growth more than it can highlight the lap and continued to be recovered than half a second pair of heads.

No surprise to find Ben Spies in the fifth position, a well-deserved applause for Randy De Puniet who basically 6 weeks from injury at the Sachsenring is sixth on the grid with the Honda LCR team. As often happens Andrea Dovizioso has lost the right train “in qualifying, only eighth after good practice, before the order to Marco Simoncelli, Marco Melandri and Loris Capirossi Suzuki pays 1″ 1 from the peak to a grille starting compact, but that race can hardly surprises with the usual suspects up front.

MotoGP World Championship 2010
Misano Adriatico, Qualifying Standings

01 – Pedrosa – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 1’33 .948
02 – Jorge Lorenzo – Team Fiat Yamaha – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0308 +
03 – Casey Stoner – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 0449 +
04 – Valentino Rossi – Fiat Yamaha Team – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0522 +
05 – Ben Spies – Monster Yamaha Tech 3 – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0524 +
06 – Randy De Puniet – LCR Honda – Honda RC212V – 0803 +
07 – Colin Edwards – Tech 3 Yamaha Monster – Yamaha YZR M1 – 0834 +
08 – Andrea Dovizioso – Repsol Honda Team – Honda RC212V – 0878 +
09 – Marco Simoncelli – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 0986 +
10 – Marco Melandri – San Carlo Honda Gresini – Honda RC212V – 1070 +
11 – Loris Capirossi – Rizla Suzuki – Suzuki GSV-R – 1148 +
12 – Hector Barbera – Paginas Amarillas Aspar – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1311 +
13 – Hiroshi Aoyama – Interwetten Honda – Honda RC212V – 1338 +
14 – Nicky Hayden – Ducati Marlboro Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1355 +
15 – Aleix Espargaro – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1490 +
16 – Alvaro Bautista – Rizla Suzuki – Suzuki GSV-R – 1681 +
17 – Mika Kallio – Pramac Racing Team – Ducati Desmosedici GP10 – 1776 +