Stoner claims home 250 pole.
Casey Stoner will start his home 250cc Australian Grand Prix from pole position after setting the fastest ever lap of this circuit by a 250cc machine with a time of 1min 32.756secs in the second qualifying session for the quarter-litre class.
Stoner is targeting his third consecutive victory as he looks to close the 26-point gap to series leader and reigning world champion Dani Pedrosa, who starts from the second row of the grid after qualifying sixth fastest.
Casey Stoner will start his home 250cc Australian Grand Prix from pole position after setting the fastest ever lap of this circuit by a 250cc machine with a time of 1min 32.756secs in the second qualifying session for the quarter-litre class.
Stoner is targeting his third consecutive victory as he looks to close the 26-point gap to series leader and reigning world champion Dani Pedrosa, who starts from the second row of the grid after qualifying sixth fastest.
The Australian is joined on the front row by Jorge Lorenzo, who escaped unhurt from a high-speed accident at turn one just seconds after setting his fastest lap, Alex de Angelis and last year's winner Sebasti?n Porto, who failed to improve on his provisional pole time from yesterday after suffering from mechanical problems with ten minutes of the session remaining.
Further back, Chaz Davies improved his lap times by over one second to qualify 17th on the Aprilia Germany machine.
250cc top ten - final qualifying:
1. Stoner (Aprilia)
2. Lorenzo (Honda) +0.087secs
3. de Angelis (Aprilia) +0.126secs
4. Porto (Aprilia) +0.361secs
5. Barbera (Honda) +0.868secs
6. Pedrosa (Honda) +0.935secs
7. Dovizioso (Honda) +0.977secs
8. Aoyama (Honda) +1.378secs
9. de Puniet (Aprilia) +1.585secs
10. Locatelli (Aprilia) +1.959secs
17. Davies (Aprilia) +2.954secs
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