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Stoner leads Sepang warm-up

Casey Stoner was quickest in the warm-up for today's Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang

The Australian, who was surprised and frustrated to only qualify fourth yesterday, lapped in 2m01.408s on his Ducati to beat Honda's Dani Pedrosa to the top spot by 0.227 seconds.

Valentino Rossi set the pace initially before falling back to third, although the Yamaha rider only needs fourth in the race to clinch the title - and was again one place ahead of his team-mate and only remaining championship threat Jorge Lorenzo, who escaped a trip through the gravel.

Pedrosa's team-mate Andrea Dovizioso showed his best form of the weekend so far to take fifth, demoting Suzuki's Loris Capirossi and Ducati's Nicky Hayden in the final minutes.

Randy de Puniet (LCR Honda), Toni Elias (Gresini Honda) and Colin Edwards (Tech 3 Yamaha) filled the rest of the top ten spots, with the latter's team-mate James Toseland continuing to struggle and ending up slowest of all.

Pos  Rider             Bike             Time       Gap
 1.  Casey Stoner      Ducati           2m01.408s
 2.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda            2m01.635s  + 0.227s
 3.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha           2m01.774s  + 0.366s
 4.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha           2m01.996s  + 0.588s
 5.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda            2m02.195s  + 0.787s
 6.  Loris Capirossi   Suzuki           2m02.286s  + 0.878s
 7.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati           2m02.299s  + 0.891s
 8.  Randy de Puniet   LCR Honda        2m02.372s  + 0.964s
 9.  Toni Elias        Gresini Honda    2m02.540s  + 1.132s
10.  Colin Edwards     Tech 3 Yamaha    2m02.543s  + 1.135s
11.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki           2m02.849s  + 1.441s
12.  Marco Melandri    Hayate Kawasaki  2m02.958s  + 1.550s
13.  Mika Kallio       Pramac Ducati    2m03.005s  + 1.597s
14.  Alex de Angelis   Gresini Honda    2m03.248s  + 1.840s
15.  Aleix Espargaro   Pramac Ducati    2m03.819s  + 2.411s
16.  Gabor Talmacsi    Scot Honda       2m04.092s  + 2.664s
17.  James Toseland    Tech 3 Yamaha    2m04.299s  + 2.891s

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