A wild Franco Battaini wins pole in Jerez

The best 250 rider today was Franco Battaini, who with a time of 1:44.803 moved ahead of everyone during the last available laps.

Behind the Italian were Fonsi Nieto, almost 5 tenths of a second, and Marco Melandri.

Rolfo also did well, taking fifth place

Instead, Roberto Locatelli has to settle for eleventh place, accumulating a gap of 1 second and 4 tenths from Battaini.

These are the official Saturday times:

1 Franco Battaini Aprilia 1:44.803

2 Fonsi Nieto Aprilia 1:45.268

3 Marco Melandri Aprilia 1:45.323

4 Sebastian Porto Yamaha 1:45.499

5 Roberto Rolfo Honda 1:45.580

6 Randy De Puniet Aprilia 1:45.596

7 Casey Stoner Aprilia 1:45.648

8 Alex Debon Aprilia 1:45.694

9 Emilio Alzamora Honda 1:45.915

10 Antonio Elias Aprilia 1:46.170

11 Roberto Locatelli Aprilia 1:46.253

12 Haruchika Aoki Honda 1:46.630

13 Naoki Matsudo Yamaha 1:46.750

14 David Checa Aprilia 1:46.939

15 Taro Sekiguchi Yamaha 1:47.147

16 Shahrol Yuzy Yamaha 1:47.460

17 Jason Vincent Honda 1:47.830

18 Jarno Janssen Honda 1:48.022

19 Hugo Marchand Aprilia 1:48.068

20 Raul Jara Aprilia 1:48.182

21 Eric Bataille Wildcard 1:48.229

22 Hector Faubel PR2 1:48.499

23 Leon Haslam Honda 1:48.603

24 Vincent Philippe Aprilia 1:48.672

25 Dirk Heidolf Aprilia 1:50.334

26 Luis Manuel Castro Wildcard 1:54.539