Queenslander West to start from 23rd on the grid.
In Moto2 QP at the Gran Premio TIM di San Marino e della Riviera di Rimini, Mika Kallio took pole, with Tito Rabat and Tom Luthi also on the front row.
Kallio (Marc VDS Racing Team) produced a 1m38.043 best time around the 4.226km Misano track to secure his third pole position start of the year.
Trailing him by just 0.067s his teammate and the Moto2 World Championship leader Rabat made it a Marc VDS Racing Team one-two on the grid for Sunday’s round 13 race.
Completing the front row in third place Luthi (Interwetten Paddock Moto2) lapped just four thousandths of a second behind Rabat.
Maverick Viñales (Paginas Amarillas HP 40), Dominique Aegerter (Technomag carXpert) and Johann Zarco (AirAsia Caterham Moto Racing) will line up on row two.
Behind that trio, it is Ricard Cardus (Tech 3), Takaaki Nakagami (IDEMITSU Honda Team Asia) and Randy Krummenacher (Octo IodaRacing Team) on the third row, with Axel Pons (AGR Team) in tenth.
Sandro Cortese (Dynavolt Intact GP) and Krummenacher both fell in the final minutes of Qualifying, the two riders were unhurt and start 14th and ninth respectively.
Lone Australian on the grid Anthony West was 23rd with a 1m39.510, 1.467s from Kallio’s pole position lap time.