Dani Pedrosa took his 4th consecutive pole position (and 5th for the season) at the Valencian GP. 2007 World Champion Casey Stoner is sandwitched between the two Repsol Honda riders - with 2006 World Champion Nicky Hayden grabbing the last spot on the first fow. Kawasaki rider de Puniert put together a another strong performance, leading the second row over Guintoli and Tamada.

Valentino Rossi had nasty crash during qualifying and has broken three bones in his right hand (fifth metacarpal (little finger), pyramidal and ulnar styloid (wrist)). Rossi may try to race tomorrow from 17th place on the grid - trying to grab at least one point necessary to wrap-up second place in championship.

Dani Pedrosa - Repsol Honda
Well, I'm very happy to be on pole position again = and especially here in front of my home fans because I really want to give them a good result. There are already many people here looking for Spanish success and tomorrow I'm sure there will be even more. We must try to improve our machine settings further and find that little bit extra for the race because the lap times are still very close and we cannot relax at all. Thirty laps makes it a long race and tyre choice will be critical of course to give us the best chance of maintaining our pace right until the end. The practice was positive this afternoon and I was able to go fast on race tyres as well. The Michelin qualifiers also worked very well again and I was able to improve on my second lap by quite a lot - which was just enough for pole position. The weekend has gone well so far and I hope I can make a good start and challenge for the win tomorrow.

Casey Stoner - Ducati Marlboro
I'm pretty happy again, we're on the front row and we've been concentrating on the race setting. I've probably got the record for the most second places in qualifying this year; again we missed out on pole by a few thousandths, it's been like that every time we've nearly been on pole this year. The race set-up is looking pretty good and we're quite happy with race distance on the tyres; like this morning we started out with eight laps already on the tyres and finished the session with the same set. But we are still trying to get slightly better lap times towards the end, just to make sure we are competitive at the end of the race. We just need to improve the traction a little bit, because the turning and everything else seems fine. And we've still got to decide what rear tyre to run, depending on what the weather does. It's nice to win the car - Adriana has already scored it!

Nicky Hayden - Repsol Honda
When I put the qualifiers on, the bike was really good and fun to ride - that was by far the most fun I've had this weekend and I dropped my lap time by two and a half seconds. But it's honestly been a bit of a nightmare this weekend up to now. For whatever reason I cannot get the race tyres to work for me here. I've had a lot of luck with the 16-inch rear tyre at the last few races but at Valencia it's been really tough. Still, I've got some good guys around me and an excellent team so we'll definitely be trying something huge to improve things for tomorrow. Being on the front row is a big advantage here, though I know these guys are going to make it tough. Race day is always a different story and anything can happen so we'll just try to stick our nose in there, put a bid in and try to finish off the year really well. I'm excited about the race - I wish I was quicker on race tyres but we'll see what happens when the light goes out. Whatever happens, I'd like to dedicate this performance to Merlyn Plumlee, my mechanic from AMA superbike who died from cancer last week. He will be sadly missed and I'm definitely thinking about him and his family.

Randy De Puniet - Kawasaki Racing
I was hoping for the first row for my last race for Kawasaki but still, my position is pretty good because it's very difficult to overtake here. We've improved the race set up hugely on the bike today and I managed to do good, consistent times during the sessions. I had a big slide on my final qualifier, just before I had to brake for a corner, so I lost a couple of tenths and, because of that, narrowly missed out on the front row. I hope to continue to improve during tomorrow's warm up but I'm feeling really good.

Valentino Rossi - Fiat Yamaha
So, I'm okay, but I was better before the crash! I was going quite well and able to do 33.3 quite easily, but then at a certain point, when I was accelerating, I lost the rear. I tried to get the bike back but it was too late. After the crash I immediately realised that my hand was broken but I didn't know how bad it was. I hit my lower back quite hard as well and actually it hurts quite a lot, but luckily there is no bad damage there. Tomorrow morning I will see how I am and then I will take a decision after further consideration with Claudio (Dr. Costa) and also with the Spanish doctors. I have never missed a race in my career and I really don't want to do it tomorrow. I remember last year in Assen the pain was more or less the same, but then I was challenging for the championship. Tomorrow I am challenging for second place; it's not quite the same but anyway of course I will would like to be there.

2007 Valencian GP Qualifying Results:
1.  Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	1.31.517
2.  Stoner	Ducati Marlboro Team	1.31.603
3.  Hayden	Repsol Honda Team	1.31.903
4.  De Puniet	Kawasaki Racing Team	1.31.963
5.  Guintoli	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	1.32.074
6.  Tamada	Dunlop Yamaha Tech 3	1.32.151
7.  Hopkins	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	1.32.165
8.  Capirossi	Ducati Marlboro Team	1.32.261
9.  Checa	Honda LCR		1.32.273
10. Melandri	Honda Gresini		1.32.367
11. Vermeulen	Rizla Suzuki MotoGP	1.32.617
12. Barros	Pramac d'Antin		1.32.714
13. Nakano	Konica Minolta Honda	1.32.730
14. Elias	Honda Gresini		1.32.790
15. Edwards	Fiat Yamaha Team	1.33.021
16. West	Kawasaki Racing Team	1.33.231
17. Rossi	Fiat Yamaha Team	1.33.290
18. Roberts	Team Roberts		1.33.431
19. Davies	Pramac d'Antin		1.34.436