Casey Stoner secured his eighth pole position of the season at qualifying for the San Marino MotoGP on Saturday.
The Honda rider's fastest lap of one minute, 33.138 seconds put him ahead of Spain's Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa who qualified in second and third place respectively.
"It's been a good weekend, it's going to be a really hard race tomorrow and I think it's going to be a bit of a battle - Jorge and Dani are very close to us," Stoner said, BBC Sport reported.
Stoner, who won last week in Indianapolis, currently leads Lorenzo by 44 points in the overall standings with Andrea Dovizioso lying in third.
Despite being willed on by his home crowd, seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi could only manage 11th place on the starting grid on his Ducati.
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