Edwards heads second practice

Tech 3 Yamaha's Colin Edwards topped the times in the second free practice session at Sepang for the Malaysian round of the MotoGP world championship

With just over a minute remaining in the session, Shinya Nakano's Honda topped the times, having done so for most of the session.

But a flurry of late laps by Valentino Rossi, Casey Stoner and Edwards saw the top spot change three times as the session drew to a close. Edwards' time of 2:02.667 also just eclipsed Rossi's effort in the earlier session today.

Rossi ended up with the second fastest time, bumping Stoner down to third after the chequered flag, Stoner having been on top of the times when the flag fell, less than a tenth ahead of Nakano who improved in the closing minutes but still ended up fourth fastest.

A late lap for Dani Pedrosa got him up to fifth position, ahead of Loris Capirossi's Suzuki and Andrea Dovizioso's Team Scot Honda. Randy de Puniet, Nicky Hayden and Jorge Lorenzo rounded out the top ten, all less than a second behind Edwards.

Pos  Rider             Bike           Time
 1.  Colin Edwards     Yamaha    (M)  2:02.667
 2.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha    (B)  2:02.838  + 0.171
 3.  Casey Stoner      Ducati    (B)  2:02.970  + 0.303
 4.  Shinya Nakano     Honda     (B)  2:03.050  + 0.383
 5.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda     (B)  2:03.232  + 0.565
 6.  Loris Capirossi   Suzuki    (B)  2:03.346  + 0.679
 7.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda     (M)  2:03.430  + 0.763
 8.  Randy de Puniet   Honda     (M)  2:03.474  + 0.807
 9.  Nicky Hayden      Honda     (M)  2:03.550  + 0.883
10.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha    (M)  2:03.598  + 0.931
11.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki    (B)  2:03.723  + 1.056
12.  Anthony West      Kawasaki  (B)  2:03.925  + 1.258
13.  Toni Elias        Ducati    (B)  2:04.183  + 1.516
14.  James Toseland    Yamaha    (M)  2:04.190  + 1.523
15.  Sylvain Guintoli  Ducati    (B)  2:04.204  + 1.537
16.  Alex de Angelis   Honda     (B)  2:04.281  + 1.614
17.  Marco Melandri    Ducati    (B)  2:04.391  + 1.724
18.  John Hopkins      Kawasaki  (B)  2:04.568  + 1.901
19.  Nobuatsu Aoki     Suzuki    (B)  2:05.998  + 3.331