125cc: Faubel retains pole at wet Mugello
Hector Faubel retained pole position for the 125cc race at Mugello as the second qualifying session was also hit by heavy rain
Although all but seven of the 34 riders eventually improved on their Friday times, Fabel and Mike di Meglio's first and second positions remained out of reach.
Faubel could not get within 7.4 seconds of his own Friday time, but with no-one else making sufficient improvements, he will start first tomorrow despite only being 22nd quickest today.
Di Meglio was fastest in the session, but his best time today was still 1.1 seconds shy of his first qualifying time. At one stage in the first half of the session he had been lapping six to eight seconds faster than the competition on the damp track.
The rain then intensified briefly, before the sun broke through towards the end of the half-hour and allowed the track to dry just enough to prompt a rash of last minute improvements.
Gabor Talmacsi jumped to third in the final seconds, albeit still 3.4 seconds from Faubel's pole time, ahead of Dino Lombardi and Tomoyoshi Koyama, who had only been 18th yesterday.
Raffaele de Rosa improved from 26th to sixth, with Andrea Iannone going from 25th to seventh, while eighth-placed Lukas Pesek could not improve on his Friday time.
Mattia Pasini was one of the first men to improve his position, getting up to fourth in the early stages, but he was later bumped down to ninth and was lucky to stay on the road after a wild twitch near the end of the session.
Qualifying times:
Pos Rider Bike Time 1. Hector Faubel Aprilia 2:15.309 2. Mike Di Meglio Honda 2:16.053 + 0.744 3. Gabor Talmacsi Aprilia 2:18.750 + 3.441 4. Dino Lombardi Honda 2:18.829 + 3.520 5. Tomoyoshi Koyama KTM 2:19.118 + 3.809 6. Raffaele De Rosa Aprilia 2:19.132 + 3.823 7. Andrea Iannone Aprilia 2:19.136 + 3.827 8. Lukas Pesek Derbi 2:19.780 + 4.471 9. Mattia Pasini Aprilia 2:19.810 + 4.501 10. Joan Olive Aprilia 2:20.090 + 4.781 11. Bradley Smith Honda 2:20.352 + 5.043 12. Alexis Masbou Honda 2:20.504 + 5.195 13. Robert Muresan Derbi 2:20.897 + 5.588 14. Simone Corsi Aprilia 2:21.008 + 5.699 15. Sandro Cortese Aprilia 2:21.143 + 5.834 16. Michael Ranseder Derbi 2:21.833 + 6.524 17. Lorenzo Zanetti Aprilia 2:22.268 + 6.959 18. Joey Litjens Honda 2:22.421 + 7.112 19. R.Krummenacher KTM 2:22.469 + 7.160 20. Sergio Gadea Aprilia 2:22.529 + 7.220 21. Nicolas Terol Derbi 2:22.699 + 7.390 22. Pol Espargaro Aprilia 2:23.354 + 8.045 23. R.Lacalendola Aprilia 2:23.809 + 8.500 24. D.Agerter Aprilia 2:23.962 + 8.653 25. Pablo Nieto Aprilia 2:24.187 + 8.878 26. Simone Sancioni Aprilia 2:24.391 + 9.082 27. Federico Sandi Aprilia 2:25.253 + 9.944 28. S.G.Giorgi Aprilia 2:25.461 + 10.152 29. Daniel Webb Honda 2:25.674 + 10.365 30. Stefano Bianco Aprilia 2:26.154 + 10.845 31. R.Tamburini Aprilia 2:26.175 + 10.866 32. Steve Bonsey KTM 2:26.582 + 11.273 33. Tobias Siegert Aprilia 2:29.687 + 14.378 34. H.van den Berg Aprilia 2:33.106 + 17.797
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