125cc: Corsi on Valencia provisional pole

The Italian, a three-time winner in 2008, battled for much of the 45 minutes with Sandro Cortese and Steve Bonsey for the top spot until late on in the session when the times were jumbled by a plethora of late flying laps.

Lorenzo Zanetti took advantage of the spell of late dashes to go second quickest on his ISPA KTM in the end, just ahead of Bonsey who crashed twice on his Aprillia during the session.

Swiss rider Dominique Aegerter went fourth fastest on his Ajo Derbi on his final flier, deposing Danny Webb in the process.

Nicolas Terol was sixth fastest ahead of Hugo van den Berg and Joan Olive.

Raffale de Rosa was another to fall, ironically at the same place as Bonsey, but recovered to end the session ninth ahead of German rider Robin Lasser.

Deposed world champion Gabor Talmacsi was 11th ahead of Cortese, who eventually dropped to 12th.

                                    
                                                      
Pos  Rider              Bike            Time         
 1.  Simone Corsi       Aprilia         1:59.809         
 2.  Lorenzo Zanetti    KTM             1:59.959 + 0.150 
 3.  Steve Bonsey       Aprilia         2:00.000 + 0.191 
 4.  Dominique Ägerter  Derbi           2:00.005 + 0.196 
 5.  Daniel Webb        Aprilia         2:00.427 + 0.618 
 6.  Nicolas Terol      Aprilia         2:00.592 + 0.783 
 7.  Hugo van den Berg  Aprilia         2:00.790 + 0.981 
 8.  Joan Olive         Derbi           2:01.037 + 1.228 
 9.  Raffaele De Rosa   KTM             2:01.222 + 1.413 
10.  Robin Lässer       Aprilia         2:01.244 + 1.435 
11.  Gábor Talmácsi     Aprilia         2:01.327 + 1.518 
12.  Sandro Cortese     Aprilia         2:01.532 + 1.723 
13.  Tomoyoshi Koyama   KTM             2:01.903 + 2.094 
14.  Randy Krummenacher KTM             2:02.114 + 2.305 
15.  Adrián Martín      Aprilia         2:02.212 + 2.403 
16.  Ricard Cardus      Derbi           2:02.278 + 2.469 
17.  Pablo Nieto        KTM             2:02.746 + 2.937 
18.  Scott Redding      Aprilia         2:02.796 + 2.987 
19.  Sergio Gadea       Aprilia         2:02.869 + 3.060 
20.  Esteve Rabat       KTM             2:03.197 + 3.388 
21.  Pol Espargaró      Derbi           2:03.215 + 3.406 
22.  Stefan Bradl       Aprilia         2:03.293 + 3.484 
23.  Bradley Smith      Aprilia         2:03.766 + 3.957 
24.  Bastien Chesaux    Aprilia         2:03.959 + 4.150 
25.  Mike Di Meglio     Derbi           2:04.049 + 4.240 
26.  Andrea Iannone     Aprilia         2:04.210 + 4.401 
27.  Alexis Masbou      Loncin          2:04.370 + 4.561 
28.  Jonas Folger       KTM             2:04.458 + 4.649 
29.  Lorenzo Savadori   Aprilia         2:04.461 + 4.652 
30.  Daniel Saez        Aprilia         2:04.975 + 5.166 
31.  Julián Miralles    Aprilia         2:05.677 + 5.868 
32.  Louis Rossi        Honda           2:05.859 + 6.050 
33.  Marco Ravaioli     Aprilia         2:06.443 + 6.634 
34.  Jules Cluzel       Loncin          2:06.614 + 6.805 
35.  Enrique Jerez      KTM             2:06.851 + 7.042 
36.  Takaaki Nakagami   Aprilia         2:07.316 + 7.507 
37.  Robert Muresan     Aprilia         2:08.050 + 8.241 
38.  Pere Tutusaus      Aprilia         2:08.573 + 8.764 
39.  C.Trabalon         Aprilia         2:11.261 + 11.452