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Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda) will start Sunday’s Gran Premio de Aragón from pole position, his ninth of the season, after a blistering display on Saturday at the 14th Round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship.

Stoner broke the 1’49� barrier and set a new lap record with 13 minutes of the one-hour qualifying session to go to before running off into the gravel and tipping over. It was a minor off but meant the Australian had to use his second bike for the remainder of the session. With five minutes left the Championship leader took two more tenths out of his provisional pole lap to seal the front row spot with an effort of 1’48.451.

A late push from his team-mate Dani Pedrosa to challenge for the pole position ended with him running off the track and unable to better his time of 1’48.747, though that time set on his penultimate lap was quick enough to grant him a front row start from second position.

Yamaha Factory’s Ben Spies was unfazed by a crash he had in the morning session and posted a lap four-tenths off that of Pedrosa to take the last spot on the front row, while defending World Champion Jorge Lorenzo followed just a tenth off his team mate to head up the second row.

Third Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso ranked fifth in the outing and was the last rider within a second of leading man Stoner, with Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini) again following his fellow countryman and rival on the timesheet, this outing by a margin of 0.156 seconds.

Nicky Hayden, who was on the podium here last year with Ducati, landed seventh on the grid, ahead of rookie Karel Abraham (Cardion AB Motoracing) and San Carlo Honda Gresini man Hiroshi Aoyama who completed the third row.

Randy de Puniet, who had jumped to the third spot in the timings just before running off into the gravel, finished the session in tenth position, while Valentino Rossi crashed 15 minutes into the session, returning to the outing with 30 minutes to go and setting a best time of 1’49.960 to start 13th on the grid.

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