Repsol Honda's Casey Stoner will start tomorrow's Le Mans MotoGP encounter from pole position and have three more factory Hondas around him after HRC completed a first-fourth clean sweep in qualifying this afternoon with four Yamahas straight behind.
Stoner set a 1'33.153 with his final lap of the session but was run close by the satellite-but-works Gresini Honda of Marco Simoncelli, who went round just 0.059s slower and his lap was enough to bump Andrea Dovizoso's Repsol bike to the outside of the front row.
Dani Pedrosa, on the third orange and black bike, is in fourth after a frantic final five minutes while reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo on the factory Yamaha was busted down to fifth in the last two minutes.
Cal Crutchlow put the satellite Monster Yamaha on the outside of the second row with his final run of laps. The Coventry rider is just over half a second off the pace and only 0.098s slower than Lorenzo. He is also in front of team-mate Colin Edwards and the second factory YZR-M1 of Ben Spies, who is a little over a second off Stoner's pace.
Marlboro Ducati's Valentino Rossi is the last man on row three but has the same time as Spies so we're not sure how that works while team-mate Nicky Hayden will be mystified how he went from sixth to tenth in the space of five minutes.
