Alvaro Bautista has scored his maiden MotoGP pole position in a rain-hit qualifying session at Silverstone.
The Gresini Honda rider moved to the top of the order with 15 minutes of the 60 minute session remaining, before the onset of rain prevented his rivals going faster.
Ben Spies will start second despite suffering an off as the rain began to fall, while championship contenders Casey Stoner and Jorge Lorenzo finished the session third and fourth respectively having both tried in vain to improve during the final quarter of an hour.
Dani Pedrosa, Hector Barbera, Nicky Hayden, Andrea Dovizioso, Stefan Bradl and Valentino Rossi completed the top 10.
The two factory Ducati riders were both able to walk away from sizeable crashes at the entry to Club corner during the session.
See below for the full qualifying result
|
Pos. |
Rider |
Team |
Bike |
Time |
Gap 1st/Prev. |
| 1 | Alvaro BAUTISTA | San Carlo Honda Gresini | Honda | 2’03.303 | |
| 2 | Ben SPIES | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 2’03.409 | 0.106 / 0.106 |
| 3 | Casey STONER | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 2’03.423 | 0.120 / 0.014 |
| 4 | Jorge LORENZO | Yamaha Factory Racing | Yamaha | 2’03.763 | 0.460 / 0.340 |
| 5 | Dani PEDROSA | Repsol Honda Team | Honda | 2’03.835 | 0.532 / 0.072 |
| 6 | Hector BARBERA | Pramac Racing Team | Ducati | 2’03.876 | 0.573 / 0.041 |
| 7 | Nicky HAYDEN | Ducati Team | Ducati | 2’04.162 | 0.859 / 0.286 |
| 8 | Andrea DOVIZIOSO | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha | 2’04.304 | 1.001 / 0.142 |
| 9 | Stefan BRADL | LCR Honda MotoGP | Honda | 2’05.035 | 1.732 / 0.731 |
| 10 | Valentino ROSSI | Ducati Team | Ducati | 2’05.416 | 2.113 / 0.381 |
| 11 | Aleix ESPARGARO | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 2’06.283 | 2.980 / 0.867 |
| 12 | Randy DE PUNIET | Power Electronics Aspar | ART | 2’06.303 | 3.000 / 0.020 |
| 13 | Yonny HERNANDEZ | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 2’06.814 | 3.511 / 0.511 |
| 14 | Michele PIRRO | San Carlo Honda Gresini | FTR | 2’07.016 | 3.713 / 0.202 |
| 15 | Colin EDWARDS | NGM Mobile Forward Racing | Suter | 2’07.376 | 4.073 / 0.360 |
| 16 | Mattia PASINI | Speed Master | ART | 2’07.511 | 4.208 / 0.135 |
| 17 | James ELLISON | Paul Bird Motorsport | ART | 2’08.228 | 4.925 / 0.717 |
| 18 | Danilo PETRUCCI | Came IodaRacing Project | Ioda | 2’08.686 | 5.383 / 0.458 |
| 19 | Ivan SILVA | Avintia Blusens | BQR | 2’10.092 | 6.789 / 1.406 |
| – | Karel ABRAHAM | Cardion AB Motoracing | Ducati | ||
| – | Cal CRUTCHLOW | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | Yamaha |
