250cc – Motegi QP1 – Provisional pole for Mika Kallio

Mika Kallio took the provisional pole position for the Japanese GP on the Twin Ring circuit in Motegi. The Finnish KTM rider achieved it with a time of 1'52"053 on the last lap ahead of the Spaniard Hector Barbera (+104 thousandths) and his teammate Hiroshi Aoyama who was in the lead with very little left to go until the end of the session . Two KTMs in the first 3 places therefore with Hector Barbera's Team Toth Aprilia in the middle. Fourth time for Alex De Angelis, the San Marino rider who will be riding the Honda MotoGP of Team Gresini next year, is 276 thousandths behind and precedes Andrea Dovizioso from Forlì by 88 thousandths and the leader of the world championship standings Jorge Lorenzo, 374 seconds behind Kallio. thousandths.

Seventh time for the Spaniard Julian Simon, the Team Honda Repsol rider is followed by teammate S.Aoyama, the Swiss Thomas Luthi and the winner of the Portuguese GP Alvaro Bautista. Twelfth and thirteenth times for our Marco Simoncelli and Roberto Locatelli while Fabrizio Lai and Alex Baldolini achieved the sixteenth and seventeenth times respectively.