Casey Stoner was pretty much untouchable in Aragon as he took pole position for tomorrow’s MotoGP. This is Stoner’s 31st pole position of his career.

Stoner’s session wasn’t without incident, shortly after setting a pole time he suffered a minor crash and ended up in the gravel with about 10 mins to go. Obviously unphased by the crash, Stoner went out on his second bike and posted a faster lap with 2 minutes of the session to go.

Dani Pedrosa took second place, and Ben Spies managed a late surge to take 3rd.

Jorge Lorenzo looked disheartened throughout the session as he struggled to match the front runners and despite feeling more comfortable with his grip when the soft tyres went on, he was only able to manage 4th place.

More issues for Ducati as Rossi crashed early on, and ended the session in 13th. Nicky Hayden was the fastest Ducati in 7th place, and both Randy De Puniet and Karel Abraham both qualified higher than Rossi.

At the end of the Qualifying session, Race Direction warned the teams to lock down their garages tightly as high winds and rain are expected from 9am tomorrow morning – which should make for an interesting and frantic race.

Full MotoGP qualifying times from Aragon:

1 Casey STONER Repsol Honda Team 1’48.451
2 Dani PEDROSA Repsol Honda Team 1’48.747
3 Ben SPIES Yamaha Factory Racing 1’49.155
4 Jorge LORENZO Yamaha Factory Racing 1’49.270
5 Andrea DOVIZIOSO Repsol Honda Team 1’49.372
6 Marco SIMONCELLI San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’49.528
7 Nicky HAYDEN Ducati Team 1’49.752
8 Karel ABRAHAM Cardion AB Motoracing 1’49.777
9 Hiroshi AOYAMA San Carlo Honda Gresini 1’49.813
10 Randy DE PUNIET Pramac Racing Team 1’49.826
11 Alvaro BAUTISTA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 1’49.883
12 Cal CRUTCHLOW Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’49.893
13 Valentino ROSSI Ducati Team 1’49.960
14 Hector BARBERA Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP 1’49.976
15 Colin EDWARDS Monster Yamaha Tech 3 1’50.105
16 Loris CAPIROSSI Pramac Racing Team 1’50.752
17 Toni ELIAS LCR Honda MotoGP 1’51.073

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