Newly crowned 125cc world champion Julian Simon will start tomorrow's final race of the season in Valencia from pole position, his seventh of the year.
The Aspar Aprilia rider from Spain set his pole lap with a quarter of an hour to go in the 40-minute session with a 1m41.472sec effort. That lap time was almost matched by Italian Simone Corsi, who, with a handful of minutes to go, managed to get within a mere 0.004sec. The Fontana Aprilia rider will start the race from second, ahead of Simon's teammate, Briton Bradley Smith. The front row will be completed by KTM's Marc Marquez.
Joan Olive (Derbi) will head the second row, followed by Spanish compatriot Nicolas Terol (Jack&Jones Aprilia), Marcel Schrotter (Mang Honda) and Pol Espargaro (Derbi). Scott Redding set the ninth-quickest time before crashing with one minute remaining. While the Blusens Aprilia rider was getting back on his feet in the gravel trap, he was almost hit by Sturla Fagerhaug's KTM, who had dropped his bike at the same spot.
Pos Rider Bike Time Laps
1. Julian Simon Aprilia 1m41.472s 18
2. Simone Corsi Aprilia 1m41.476s + 0.004s 20
3. Bradley Smith Aprilia 1m41.830s + 0.358s 21
4. Marc Marquez KTM 1m41.991s + 0.519s 19
5. Joan Olive Derbi 1m42.033s + 0.561s 21
6. Nicolas Terol Aprilia 1m42.092s + 0.620s 18
7. Marcel Schrotter Honda 1m42.111s + 0.639s 21
8. Pol Espargaro Derbi 1m42.162s + 0.690s 19
9. Scott Redding Aprilia 1m42.233s + 0.761s 17
10. Sandro Cortese Derbi 1m42.246s + 0.774s 19
11. Esteve Rabat Aprilia 1m42.307s + 0.835s 19
12. Efren Vazquez Derbi 1m42.495s + 1.023s 17
13. Andrea Iannone Aprilia 1m42.556s + 1.084s 17
14. Sergio Gadea Aprilia 1m42.648s + 1.176s 13
15. R.Krummenacher Aprilia 1m42.767s + 1.295s 18
16. Stefan Bradl Aprilia 1m42.769s + 1.297s 18
17. Cameron Beaubier KTM 1m42.823s + 1.351s 20
18. Takaaki Nakagami Aprilia 1m42.874s + 1.402s 16
19. D.Agerter Derbi 1m42.913s + 1.441s 19
20. Jonas Folger Aprilia 1m42.948s + 1.476s 18
21. Johann Zarco Aprilia 1m43.176s + 1.704s 20
22. Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 1m43.441s + 1.969s 19
23. Michael Ranseder Aprilia 1m43.691s + 2.219s 19
24. Luis Salom Aprilia 1m44.081s + 2.609s 15
25. Jasper Iwema Honda 1m44.247s + 2.775s 19
26. Joan Perello Honda 1m44.264s + 2.792s 19
27. Lorenzo Savadori Aprilia 1m44.267s + 2.795s 18
28. Daniel Webb Aprilia 1m44.284s + 2.812s 3
29. Tomoyoshi Koyama Loncin 1m44.326s + 2.854s 18
30. Sturla Fagerhaug KTM 1m44.634s + 3.162s 18
31. Jakub Kornfeil Loncin 1m44.979s + 3.507s 21
32. Ivan Maestro Aprilia 1m45.136s + 3.664s 19
33. Luca Marconi Aprilia 1m45.530s + 4.058s 18
34. Alberto Moncayo Aprilia 1m45.575s + 4.103s 19
35. Luca Vitali Aprilia 1m47.151s + 5.679s 19