Moto2: Barbera grabs second straight pole

The Spanish Aprilia rider may have been deposed from his position by his countryman and factory rider Alvaro Bautista, whose last lap looked good to challenge until he ran up behind Barbera and seemed to lose time.

So Barbera it was who took the pole, having taken the top spot halfway through the session and then improved his lap time near the end.

Hiroshi Aoyama, who was on top of the times on the Scot Honda for the first half of the session, was second fastest, with Bautista eventually third.

Reigning champion Marco Simoncelli was fourth fastest on the Gilera ahead of Aleix Espargaro, who did exceptionally well as he jumped on the vacated Balatonring Aprilia seat after Gabor Talmacsi moved up to the MotoGP class.

Alex Debon was sixth ahead of Raffaele de Rosa, Mattia Pasini, Mike di Meglio and Lukas Pesek.

American Steve Bonsey had the biggest incident of the session, crashing his Aprilia at the final chicane en route to 18th position. He got up from the crash but then collapsed at the side of the track before eventually walking away from the scene holding his side. It is unclear whether he is injured if at all.

Pos  Rider                     Bike         Time              Laps
 1.  Hector Barbera            Aprilia      1:40.019            22
 2.  Hiroshi Aoyama            Honda        1:40.192  + 0.173   21
 3.  Alvaro Bautista           Aprilia      1:40.210  + 0.191   22
 4.  Marco Simoncelli          Gilera       1:40.320  + 0.301   19
 5.  Aleix Espargaro           Aprilia      1:40.796  + 0.777   21
 6.  Alex Debon                Aprilia      1:40.830  + 0.811   20
 7.  Raffaele De Rosa          Honda        1:41.023  + 1.004   21
 8.  Mattia Pasini             Aprilia      1:41.055  + 1.036   21
 9.  Mike Di Meglio            Aprilia      1:41.072  + 1.053   19
10.  Lukas Pesek               Aprilia      1:41.190  + 1.171   20
11.  Ratthapark Wilairot       Honda        1:41.235  + 1.216   20
12.  Roberto Locatelli         Gilera       1:41.347  + 1.328   20
13.  Hector Faubel             Honda        1:41.462  + 1.443   16
14.  Karel Abraham             Aprilia      1:41.533  + 1.514   22
15.  Thomas Luthi              Aprilia      1:41.545  + 1.526   21
16.  Shoya Tomizawa            Honda        1:42.038  + 2.019   19
17.  Jules Cluzel              Aprilia      1:42.628  + 2.609   14
18.  Stevie Bonsey             Aprilia      1:42.697  + 2.678   13
19.  Alex Baldolini            Aprilia      1:43.075  + 3.056   13
20.  Axel Pons                 Aprilia      1:43.470  + 3.451   21
21.  Valentin Debise           Honda        1:43.653  + 3.634   19
22.  Imre Toth                 Aprilia      1:43.913  + 3.894   20
23.  Bastien Chesaux           Honda        1:44.704  + 4.685   21
24.  Vladimir Leonov           Aprilia      1:44.743  + 4.724   17
25.  Toby Markham              Honda        1:46.758  + 6.739   14