For the second time this FIA World Endurance Championship season, Toyota will be starting from pole positions as Fuji winners Alexander Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre beat the Audi team of André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler and Benoît Tréluyer by 0.089 seconds The second Toyota of Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Stéphane Sarrazin were only 0.681 back as the LMP1 point leaders Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Loïc Duval were just 1.160 seconds back in fourth. Rebellion Racing starts fifth.
John Martin, Mike Conway and Romain Rusanov start on pole in LMP2 ahead OAK Racing's #24 entry of Alex Brundle, Olivier Pla and David Heinemeir Hansson and Greaves Motorsports #41 of Björn Wirdheim, Eric Lux and Mark Shulzhitckiy. LMP2 points leaders of Bertrand Baguette, Martin Plowman and Ricardo González start fourth in class.
The Aston Martin of Stefan Mücke and Darren Turner start on pole in GTE Pro with their teammates Pedro Lamy, Bruno Senna and Richie Stanaway starting second in class. Second in GT points, Porsche drivers Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz start third with the Ferrari of Kamui Kobayashi and Toni Vilander in fourth and the Porsche of Jörg Bergmeister and Patrick Pilet round out the top five. GT points leaders Giancarlo Fisichella and Gianmaria Bruni start sixth in class.
Aston Martin also took pole in GTE Am with the all-Danish team of Kristian Poulsen, Cristoffer Nygaard and recently crowned 2013 Porsche Supercup champion Nicki Thiim. The two GTE Am championship contending teams will start fifth and sixth respectively with the trailing pair of Jean-Karl Vernay and Raymond Narac along with Finn Markus Palttala starting ahead of the GTE Am leaders Jamie Campbell-Walter and Stuart Hall who are joined this weekend by Brit Jonathan Adams.
The penultimate round of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship can be seen at 10:00 p.m. ET on FIAWEC.com
In Valencia, points leader Marc Márquez was the fastest in both practice sessions as the rookie looks to win the MotoGP title this weekend. Márquez was only 0.066 seconds faster than his Repsol Honda teammate, fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa and his championship rival Jorge Lorenzo was third. Tech3 Yamaha rider Cal Crutchlow was fourth with Valentino Rossi rounding out the top five.
Customer Honda riders Stefan Brandl and Álvaro Bautista were sixth and seventh ahead other the Tech3 Yamaha of Bradley Smith with the factory Ducati riders Andrea Dovizioso and Nicky Hayden rounding out the top ten. Pramac Ducati rider Andrea Iannone and Ducati Test Team rider Michele Pirro were eleventh and twelfth ahead of the CRT bikes of Aleix Espargaró, Claudio Corti and Colin Edwards.
Qualifying for the final round of the MotoGP season will be tomorrow at 8:10 a.m. ET with the race Sunday and can be seen at 8:00 a.m. ET on Fox Sports 1.
Jimmie Johnson won pole position for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway. Johnson leads Matt Kenseth by six points entering Phoenix. Kenseth starts in fourteenth. Denny Hamlin joins Johnson on the front row with Joey Logano in third. Six of the remaining seven top ten spots are occupied by Chase drivers led by Kyle Busch followed by Jeff Gordon, Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick. Martin Truex, Jr. rounds out the top ten.
ESPN's coverage of Sunday's race begins at 2:00 p.m. ET.
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