Stoner beats Hondas to Barcelona pole

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Casey Stoner took his first pole position of the year at Barcelona ahead of tomorrow's MotoGP of Catalunya.
The Ducati Marlboro rider, who has won only one race this season after dominating the championship in 2007, was the only Bridgestone rider in the top seven positions.
The Australian set his blistering lap of 1:41.186 just after the time in the 60-minute session expired. That came a handful of seconds after Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa took provisional pole away from teammate Nicky Hayden.
Pos Rider Bike Time
1. Casey Stoner Ducati (B) 1:41.186
2. Dani Pedrosa Honda (M) 1:41.269 + 0.083
3. Nicky Hayden Honda (M) 1:41.437 + 0.251
4. Randy de Puniet Honda (M) 1:41.571 + 0.385
5. Colin Edwards Yamaha (M) 1:41.609 + 0.423
6. James Toseland Yamaha (M) 1:41.820 + 0.634
7. Andrea Dovizioso Honda (M) 1:42.053 + 0.867
8. Chris Vermeulen Suzuki (B) 1:42.365 + 1.179
9. Valentino Rossi Yamaha (B) 1:42.427 + 1.241
10. Alex de Angelis Honda (B) 1:42.580 + 1.394
11. Toni Elias Ducati (B) 1:42.622 + 1.457
12. Shinya Nakano Honda (B) 1:42.643 + 1.462
13. Loris Capirossi Suzuki (B) 1:42.648 + 1.622
14. John Hopkins Kawasaki (B) 1:42.819 + 1.633
15. Sylvain Guintoli Ducati (B) 1:43.204 + 2.018
16. Marco Melandri Ducati (B) 1:43.719 + 2.533
17. Anthony West Kawasaki (B) 1:44.558 + 3.372
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Pedrosa continues Catalunya pace in afternoon session

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Dani Pedrosa was once again the fastest rider on track on Friday afternoon in Barcelona.
The fastest rider in the opening practice session, Dani Pedrosa made it a clean sweep from the two Friday MotoGP runs at the Circuit de Catalunya by further improving his times in the afternoon. The Spaniard began the preparations for his home race with a 1´43.017 lap of the tricky Barcelona track, which caught out half of the 18-rider field in one form or another.
Pedrosa was among the participants to take a fall, crashing his standard engine-powered Repsol Honda RC212V with just over ten minutes to go in the second session, immediately after clocking the fastest time of the day. He was unhurt in the crash.
Second fastest in the combined standings was Loris Capirossi, continuing his upturn in form onboard the Rizla Suzuki GSV-R. He trailed Pedrosa by just 0.006, with the top four covered by less than a tenth of a second. Capirossi ran off track twice in the afternoon run.
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Podium reactions from Rossi, Stoner and Pedrosa

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Valentino Rossi and fellow podium finishers Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa gave their thoughts on a tough Mugello race, immediately after stepping off the rostrum.
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The Doctor Unbeatable

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Valentino Rossi took a dominant victory in his home Italian Grand Prix for the seventh time in seven years at Mugello, to add to his two additional wins in the lower classes.
This is Rossi's third consecutive victory this year, enabling him to further extend his lead in the MotoGP championship over Repsol Honda rival Dani Pedrosa.
The Italian, who didn't have the best of starts from pole with his Fiat Yamaha when he dropped back to fourth, took the lead from Ducati Marlboro's Casey Stoner on lap four and started opening a gap a few laps later, to extend it to as much as 3.5 seconds with two laps to go.
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