Casey Stoner beats Jorge Lorenzo on final MotoGP winter test day

Yamaha rider Lorenzo had led the way for the majority of the day, which saw teams completing plenty of mileage to make up for the time lost to rain on Saturday.

It was only in the final quarter of an hour that Stoner (Honda) usurped Lorenzo, before improving to a 1m38.780s with his very last lap of the day, putting him 0.173 seconds ahead of his predecessor as world champion.

Their team-mates were next up - Honda's Dani Pedrosa taking third and Ben Spies putting his Yamaha fourth.

Valentino Rossi enjoyed a more encouraging final day, feeling that Ducati had started to get back on track after going off course with set-up at the previous Sepang test. The Italian was sixth, sandwiched between the Tech 3 Yamahas of Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso, while Nicky Hayden claimed eighth on the second Ducati.

Alvaro Bautista escaped a crash without injury to take ninth for Gresini Honda, with LCR Honda's Stefan Bradl 10th.

Randy de Puniet again showed well on a CRT bike as he took his Aspar Aprilia to 13th - 1.8s off the overall pace and only half a second from the outright top 10.

The session was red-flagged near the end when Mattia Pasini crashed heavily. The Speed Master rider was unhurt.

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike             Time       Gap
 1.  Casey Stoner      Honda                 1m38.780s
 2.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                1m38.953s  + 0.173s
 3.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda                 1m39.157s  + 0.377s
 4.  Ben Spies         Yamaha                1m39.495s  + 0.715s
 5.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha         1m39.585s  + 0.805s
 6.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati                1m39.733s  + 0.953s
 7.  Andrea Dovizioso  Tech 3 Yamaha         1m39.860s  + 1.080s
 8.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati                1m39.919s  + 1.139s
 9.  Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda         1m40.017s  + 1.237s
10.  Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda             1m40.098s  + 1.318s
11.  Hector Barbera    Pramac Ducati         1m40.287s  + 1.507s
12.  Karel Abraham     Cardion AB Ducati     1m40.579s  + 1.799s
13.  Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia         1m40.601s  + 1.821s
14.  Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia         1m41.645s  + 2.865s
15.  Danilo Petrucci   Ioda Aprilia          1m41.926s  + 3.146s
16.  Franco Battaini   Ducati                1m42.057s  + 3.277s
17.  Colin Edwards     Forward Suter-BMW     1m42.073s  + 3.293s
18.  Mattia Pasini     Speed Master Aprilia  1m42.184s  + 3.404s
19.  Michele Pirro     Gresini FTR-Honda     1m42.212s  + 3.432s
20.  James Ellison     Paul Bird Aprilia     1m42.437s  + 3.657s
21.  Ivan Silva        Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  1m42.446s  + 3.666s
22.  Yonny Hernandez   Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  1m42.906s  + 4.126s