Stoner on pole position for MotoGP

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World Championship leader Casey Stoner takes pole position for his home MotoGP on Phillip Island.

15 October,2011 06:29 pm

Casey Stoner dominated qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday to extend his MotoGP record to 11 poles this season and boost his chance of sealing the championship with two races to spare.Honda-rider Stoner, who earlier slammed organisers for the bumpy state of the track, lapped the scenic seaside circuit in one minute 29.975 seconds for his fourth straight pole at Phillip Island in trying, gusty conditions. The Australians time was nearly a half-second faster than reigning world champion Jorge Lorenzo and puts him in the box seat to clinch his home grand prix for a fifth straight time on his 26th birthday.“Step by step we just continued to get faster and this afternoon we’ve done two race distances basically on hard tyres and everything feels good, Stoner told reporters. “The soft tyres will be quite a jump faster so we’ll see what the weather holds for tomorrow and how everything is but we couldnt ask for much more for this weekend.