Moto2 Valencia: Rabat scores the eleventh pole of the season, Franco Morbidelli excellent third

Esteve Rabat achieved his eleventh pole position of a memorable season in Valencia, which saw him win the Moto2 class world championship.

The Marc VDS Racing Team rider, who will defend the title next year with the #1 on the fairing, lapped in 1:35.199, beating the Frenchman Johann Zarco by just 43 thousandths and keeping the Spanish colors high in MotoGP and Moto3 they had to surrender to our Valentino Rossi (at his 50th pole in the Top Class) and to Niccolò Antonelli, at his first career pole.

Also on the front row with them is our Franco Morbidelli, author of the third time with a time of 1:35.420, on his first start from the "first row". The Team Italtrans driver, who is also part of the VR46 Academy, preceded the Swiss Thomas Luthi, who will open the second row, which also includes the Belgian Xavier Simeon and the German Marcel Schrotter.

The other Italians are further back, with Lorenzo Baldassarri (Suter) seventeenth, Mattia Pasini (Kalex) eighteenth and Roberto Rolfo (Suter), in his second race since returning after Sepang, thirtieth.