Factory Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo grabbed a last-ditch pole position for tomorrow's Aragon MotoGP race tomorrow, slipping ahead of title challenger Dani Pedrosa in the weekend's first fry session while Britain's Cal Crutchlow will once again start from the front row.
Crutchlow was at the top of the timesheets right until the end of the session after putting in a 1'49.576 and it looked like he was on for his first pole but Yamaha stablemate Lorenzo had other ideas with his 1'49.404. Pedrosa, meanwhile, had to pick himself up from an early crash to take second place and was only 0.088s behind his compatriot.
Ben Spies, on the second works Yamaha, heads the second row and is little over three-tenths off the pace while rookie Stefan Bradl is fifth and Crutchlow's team-mate, Andrea Dovizioso, is sixth and eight-tenths in arrears.
Repsol Honda stand-in rider Jonathan Rea hopped up to seventh place with his last lap and is a second slower than Lorenzo while Ducati pairing of Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden are eighth and ninth with very close laptimes. Pramac Ducati's Hector Barbera rounds out the top ten.
Aleix Espargaro was the top CRT man and quicker than Alvaro Bautista on the Gresini Honda in 11th place. Aspar team-mate Randy De Puniet was 13th place and Michele Pirro took third in the sub class. James Ellison slipped back to 20th place in the final analysis.
