Brno MotoGP: Hector Barbera takes 250cc provisional pole

Team Toth Aprilia rider Hector Barbera has taken provisional pole in a rain-hit qualifying session at Brno.

The  session started on a slightly damp track, with the majority of the riders choosing to put in their fastest laps before the rain properly started.

Debon was fastest early on in the session, but Pasini and Simoncelli beat heis time respectively.

Once Simoncelli posted his fastest lap, nobody was able to knock him off of the top spot for the majority of the session.

Towards the end of the session Mika Kallio went to the top of the timesheets after having a relatively quiet session, but Hector Barbera put in the fastest lap of the session after he also had a relatively quiet session

On his in lap after his fastest lap Hector Barbera crashed at the same corner as James Toseland.

The top ten are:

Hector Barbera
Mika Kallio
Marco Simoncelli
AlexDebon
Hiroshi Aoyama
Mattea Pasini
Eugene Laverty
Julian Simon
Lukas Pesek
Alvaro Bautista