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  MotoGP Qualifying Report: Stoner Stuns In Qatar
  Can The Kid Really Pull It Off?
  by toby hirst
  Friday, April 07, 2006
  
  The MotoGP paddock was left stunned today as LCR Honda's Casey Stoner landed his first premier class pole position in only his second Grand Prix on the customer RC211V machine.
  
  Lucio Cecchinello's rookie rider recorded an outright lap record along the way at the 3.343-mile Losail International Circuit, and nobody could touch the Aussie who Jeremy Burgess put forward (prior to the start of the season) as the man who could move from 250cc and make an instant impact.
  
  Burgess has been proven correct (again) and Stoner's superb pole lap put the rest of the elite class in the shade, and all this from a man that missed most of the winter testing programme with an injury.
  
  The session began slowly with Capirossi the first to record a respectable lap-time with just a few minutes of the session run, a 1:57.391 the marker laid down by the works Ducati man.
  
  With six minutes having elapsed, Stoner started his charge for the pole by demoting Capirossi to second by four tenths of a second, before Capirex once again topped the timing sheets.
  
  After ten minutes, Capirossi, Stoner, Toni Elias, Colin Edwards and an improving Sete Gibernau were the five fastest men on track, Gibernau 0.827 seconds behind his Italian team-mate.
  
  The session continued to progress slowly, with no major moves in position on the leaderboard. Valentino Rossi was languishing down in tenth place, although Camel Yamaha counterpart Edwards moved up to third position with 15 minutes gone.
  
  With 38 minutes remaining, #65 cemented his provisional pole, 1:56.187 the time, Gibernau moving into fifth spot before Nick Hayden stole that position just a few seconds later.
  
  It was a stale-mate at the sharp end for much of the next 17 minutes, until Valentino Rossi finally made his mark on the session by moving onto the front row on his 16th lap, 0.348 seconds back of Capirossi.
  
  The session sprang in to life with 19 minutes remaining when Sete Gibernau made it a Ducati factory one-two, the Spaniard 0.110 seconds back of the Spanish GP winner, with Rossi in pit-lane having the first of his qualifying tires fitted into the back of the factory YZR-M1.
  
  Into the final 15 minutes then, and Capirossi confirmed his pole form with a new lap record of 1:56.102, with another young hotshot, Toni Elias, moving up to fourth place 0.387 seconds back of Loris.
  
  Nick Hayden slung in a qualifier with 11 minutes on the clock, with Kenny Junior following suit aboard the KR211V, but neither made any impact on the close-fought battle at the front.
  
  And, it was with eight minutes left that Stoner set about embarrassing the opposition by crafting a superb lap, putting him on pole by a huge margin of 0.419 seconds, laying the gauntlet for a charging Loris Capirossi.
  
  The final five minutes saw a flurry of fast times, Elias to second, Gibernau to fourth and the qualifying tire war was on. Capirossi was 0.2 seconds up on Stoner at the second intermediate split, but the lap drifted away leaving Loris in second spot; Stoner on the verge of creating a little piece of personal history.
  
  With the flag out, Rossi was not having much luck, the M1 losing vital corner speed, but he did manage to climb to fourth momentarily, before Hayden and Elias rolled the dice one last time. Hayden put the works Honda on the front row, before the Fortuna sponsored customer machine of Elias took the position from the former AMA Superbike champion. Pedrosa climbed to fifth, demoting Rossi to the back of the second row.
  
  Sete Gibernau ended his day in seventh spot, and he was joined on row three by Colin Edwards and Shinya Nakano, Nakano's final lap a stunner after an indifferent practice performance on the ZX-RR Ninja.
  
  Carlos Checa lead the Dunlop charge, and finished in 14th position on the Tech 3 Yamaha.
  
  And, that was that. Stoner sent the desert heat rising, Capirossi gave Bridgestone some hope, Elias looked a real challenger, and Rossi has his work cut out over 22 laps tomorrow.
  
  Just 0.052 seconds covers the front row. So, can Stoner pull off a real coup and win the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, or will experience show through from the likes of Gibernau, Capirossi, Hayden and 'The Doctor'?
  
  Stay tuned to find out the answer to that question, the race due to get underway at 3pm, local time. It's ON folks, David v's Goliath!!
  
  Press releases to follow.
  
  ENDS

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