Moto2 title leader Toni Elias took only his second pole position of the season - and first si💫nce round one at Qatar - after edging ouไt young British star Scott Redding at Misano on Saturday.

Elias, riding in 𝕴white and red San Carlꦗo colours this weekend - the same as the Gresini MotoGP team - nipped just 0.044sec ahead of Redding on the 18th of his 20 laps.

For Redding, second marks his best ever Moto2 grid start - and second front row in as many attempts - and comes less than a week after the Marc VDS (Suter) rider took his f🌠irst Moto2 podium with third at Indianapolis.

Elias and Redding will be joined on the front row by Julian Simon (Aspar Suter) an༒d Jules Cluzel (Forward Racing Suter), who got a tow from Redding.

Andrea Iannone was the top Italian in ꧂fifth place.✨ The Fimmco Speed Up rider is second in the championship and 67 points behind Elias.

JiR team-mates Simone Corsi and new signing Alex de Angelis will start sixth and seventh with early season title leader Sho🧸ya Tomizawa starting eighth for the Technomag-CIP team.

Mattia Pasini will make his grand🐻 prix return from ninth♌ place for Italtrans S.T.R.

Qualifying - Misano:

1. Elias (Moriwaki) 1m 38.991s
2. Redding (Suter) +0.044s
3. Simon (Suter) +0.289s
4. Cluzel (Suter) +0.422s
5. Iannone (Speed Up) +0.435s
6. Corsi (Motobi) +0.673s
7. de Angelis (MotoBI) +0.695s
8. Tomizawa (Suter) +0.787s
9. Pasini (Suter) +0.865s
10. Talmacsi (Speed Up) +0.866s