Moto2: Kallio claims first pole

The Finnish KTM rider improved from yesterday's fifth place in first qualifying by setting a time of 1:24.413, seven tenths faster than yesterday.

Honda's Andrea Dovizioso qualified in second place, 0.230 seconds behind Kallio. The Italian also improved from yesterday's sixth spot.

Aprilia's Alex de Angelis reaffirmed his third spot on the grid by setting a time four thousandths of a second slower than Dovizioso.

Series leader Jorge Lorenzo could only take fourth spot, despite after having finished yesterday's qualifying session on top.

Julian Simon qualified fifth, followed by Hiroshi Aoyama in sixth and Hector Barbera in seventh.

Marco Simoncelli, Alvaro Bautista and Yuki Takahashi complete the top ten.

Pos  Rider             Bike     Time
 1.  Mika Kallio       KTM      1:24.413
 2.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda    1:24.643  + 0.230
 3.  Alex de Angelis   Aprilia  1:24.647  + 0.234
 4.  Jorge Lorenzo     Aprilia  1:24.735  + 0.322
 5.  Julian Simon      Honda    1:24.845  + 0.432
 6.  Hiroshi Aoyama    KTM      1:24.870  + 0.457
 7.  Hector Barbera    Aprilia  1:24.910  + 0.497
 8.  Marco Simoncelli  Gilera   1:24.928  + 0.515
 9.  Alvaro Bautista   Aprilia  1:25.082  + 0.669
10.  Yuki Takahashi    Honda    1:25.099  + 0.686
11.  Aleix Espargaro   Aprilia  1:25.213  + 0.800
12.  Thomas Luthi      Aprilia  1:25.240  + 0.827
13.  Dirk Heidolf      Aprilia  1:25.585  + 1.172
14.  R.Locatelli       Gilera   1:25.599  + 1.186
15.  Alex Baldolini    Aprilia  1:25.616  + 1.203
16.  Fabrizio Lai      Aprilia  1:25.800  + 1.387
17.  Shuhei Aoyama     Honda    1:25.856  + 1.443
18.  Taro Sekiguchi    Aprilia  1:26.225  + 1.812
19.  Efren Vazquez     Aprilia  1:26.236  + 1.823
20.  Karel Abraham     Aprilia  1:26.685  + 2.272
21.  Jules Cluzel      Aprilia  1:26.890  + 2.477
22.  R.Wilairot        Honda    1:26.960  + 2.547
23.  Alvaro Molina     Aprilia  1:27.066  + 2.653
24.  Imre Toth         Aprilia  1:27.644  + 3.231
25.  Dan Linfoot       Aprilia  1:27.886  + 3.473
26.  Eugene Laverty    Honda    1:27.984  + 3.571
27.  Joshua Sommer     Honda    1:28.840  + 4.427
28.  Thomas Walther    Honda    1:28.962  + 4.549