Moto2: Barbera takes pole in Barcelona

The Pepe World Team Aprilia rider set his best lap of 1m46.749s with four minutes of the three-quarter-hour session remaining, to beat fellow Spaniard Alvaro Bautista who held pole until then.

The Aspar Aprilia man will start second, just nine thousands of a second ahead of rival Marco Simoncelli, who crashed his Metis Gilera in the gravel early in the session but managed to rejoin the track.

Tomas Luthi took his Emmi Aprilia to fourth spot, followed by Alex Debon (Blusens Aprilia) and Hiroshi Aoyama, who also crashed his Scot Honda with ten minutes of the session gone.

Mattia Pasini (Team Toth Aprilia) will occupy seventh spot on the grid, ahead of Hector Faubel (Honda SAG), with Mike di Meglio (Aspar Aprilia) and Ratthapark Wilairot (Honda SAG) completing the top ten.

Pos  Rider             Bike          Time
 1.  Hector Barbera    Aprilia  1m46.749s
 2.  Alvaro Bautista   Aprilia  +  0.150s
 3.  Marco Simoncelli  Gilera   +  0.159s
 4.  Thomas Luthi      Aprilia  +  0.332s
 5.  Alex Debon        Aprilia  +  0.376s
 6.  Hiroshi Aoyama    Honda    +  0.417s
 7.  Mattia Pasini     Aprilia  +  0.476s
 8.  Hector Faubel     Honda    +  0.630s
 9.  Mike Di Meglio    Aprilia  +  0.677s
10.  R.Wilairot        Honda    +  0.810s
11.  Alex Baldolini    Aprilia  +  0.847s
12.  Karel Abraham     Aprilia  +  0.976s
13.  Raffaele De Rosa  Honda    +  0.998s
14.  Jules Cluzel      Aprilia  +  1.046s
15.  Shoya Tomizawa    Honda    +  1.283s
16.  R.Locatelli       Gilera   +  1.339s
17.  Lukas Pesek       Aprilia  +  1.352s
18.  Axel Pons         Aprilia  +  3.701s
19.  Steve Bonsey      Aprilia  +  3.849s
20.  Valentin Debise   Honda    +  3.904s
21.  Balazs Nemeth     Aprilia  +  3.983s
22.  Bastien Chesaux   Honda    +  4.480s
23.  Imre Toth         Aprilia  +  4.547s
24.  Vladimir Leonov   Aprilia  +  5.384s
25.  Toby Markham      Honda    +  6.107s