Alex de Angelis repeated his Phillip Island Moto2 pole of one year ago after an exciting climax to a👍 rain-interrupted quali💝fying at Phillip Island on Saturday.

Spots of rain after only a few minutes sent riders back to the pits, leaving Marc VDS rider Scott Reddin💞g fastest by 0.122sec from JiR's de Angelis.

The moisture continued 🐽off and on for the rest of the sessi꧙on, before a dryer window suddenly opened up in the closing minutes.

Aಌ frantic finale ended with de Angelis on pole by just 0.088sec from Tech 3's Mike di ♈Meglio, with Gresini's Yuki Takahashi completing the front row.

Redding dropped to fourth, and will be joined on the second row by Technomag CIP🌠's Kenan Sofuoglu and Speed Up'🌄s Pol Espargaro.

Tech 3's Bradley Smith will line-up s𒉰eventh, while the changes in the closing stages changes w🀅ere so great that title contender Stefan Bradl was pushed from pole to eighth.

The good news, from Bradl's point of view, is that new title leader Marc Marquez 💞will start from last place.

Marquez is to be penalised for a F🅺riday practice co🎐llision with Ratthapark Wilairot, which occurred after the chequered flag. As a result Marquez unsurprisingly didn't push for pole.

The Spaniard, who has beaten long-time title leader Bradl in the last eight races, holds a one-point advantage over the Gerཧman with three rounds remaining.

Qualifying:

1. de Angelis (MotoBI) 1m 34.574s
2. di Meglio (Tech 3) +0.088s
3. Takahashi (Moriwaki) +0.115s
4. Redding (Suter) +0.125s
5. Sofuoglu (Suter) +0.155s
6. P. Espargaro (FTR) +0.223s
7. Smith (Tech 3) +0.293s
8. Bradl (Kalex) +0.328s
9. Luthi (Suter) +0.384s
10. Pasini (FTR) +0.518s