Moto2: Kallio takes Valencia pole

The KTM rider, ninth in yesterday's first qualifying session, managed today to set a time of 1:35.166, good enough to beat newly-crowned world champion Jorge Lorenzo to second.

The Spanish Aprilia rider was 0.167 seconds behind the Finn, with the Honda of Yuki Takahashi a further three tenths back.

Marco Simoncelli qualified fourth with his Gilera, ahead of the Aprilias of Hector Barbera and Alvaro Bautista in fifth and sixth respectively.

Julian Simon's Honda was seventh, with Alex Debon's Aprilia eight, Alex de Angelis's Aprilia ninth, and Andrea Dovizioso's Honda rounding up the top ten.

Pos  Rider             Make       Time
 1.  Mika Kallio       KTM        1:35.166
 2.  Jorge Lorenzo     Aprilia    1:35.333 + 0.167
 3.  Yuki Takahashi    Honda      1:35.623 + 0.457
 4.  Marco Simoncelli  Gilera     1:35.712 + 0.546
 5.  Hector Barbera    Aprilia    1:35.727 + 0.561
 6.  Alvaro Bautista   Aprilia    1:35.766 + 0.600
 7.  Julian Simon      Honda      1:35.958 + 0.792
 8.  Alex Debon        Aprilia    1:35.962 + 0.796
 9.  Alex de Angelis   Aprilia    1:35.985 + 0.819
10.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda      1:35.985 + 0.819
11.  Hiroshi Aoyama    KTM        1:36.077 + 0.911
12.  Shuhei Aoyama     Honda      1:36.103 + 0.937
13.  Aleix Espargaro   Aprilia    1:36.318 + 1.152
14.  Thomas Luthi      Aprilia    1:36.344 + 1.178
15.  R.Locatelli       Gilera     1:36.688 + 1.522
16.  Fabrizio Lai      Aprilia    1:37.580 + 2.414
17.  Jules Cluzel      Aprilia    1:37.680 + 2.514
18.  Dirk Heidolf      Aprilia    1:37.770 + 2.604
19.  R.Wilairot        Honda      1:37.792 + 2.626
20.  Alex Baldolini    Aprilia    1:37.922 + 2.756
21.  Karel Abraham     Aprilia    1:38.090 + 2.924
22.  Taro Sekiguchi    Aprilia    1:38.557 + 3.391
23.  Efren Vazquez     Aprilia    1:38.589 + 3.423
24.  Alvaro Molina     Aprilia    1:38.683 + 3.517
25.  Federico Sandi    Aprilia    1:38.904 + 3.738
26.  Eugene Laverty    Honda      1:38.919 + 3.753
27.  Imre Toth         Aprilia    1:39.080 + 3.914
28.  S.Barragan        Honda      1:40.427 + 5.261
29.  Joshua Sommer     Honda      1:41.692 + 6.526