Pedrosa on top in practice two

In windy conditions, times were half a second off this morning's and Pedrosa trimming his benchmark time from 1m40.110s to 1m40.101s was one of very few improvements in the second part of the session.

Casey Stoner was second to his team-mate, 0.188 seconds adrift.

Honda held a one-two-three for a while with the works duo ahead of Marco Simoncelli's factory-specification Gresini bike, before Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) demoted Simoncelli to fourth.

Valentino Rossi maintained his promising form by taking fifth, and with Pramac's Randy de Puniet sixth, works rider Nicky Hayden eighth and Cardion AB's Karel Abraham 10th, it was an encouraging afternoon for Ducati.

Abraham provided two of the few incidents in the session, having a gentle fall at the hairpin and a high-speed trip over the gravel.

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike       Time       Gap
 1.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda           1m40.101s
 2.  Casey Stoner      Honda           1m40.289s  + 0.188s
 3.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha          1m40.623s  + 0.522s
 4.  Marco Simoncelli  Gresini Honda   1m40.701s  + 0.600s
 5.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati          1m40.956s  + 0.855s
 6.  Randy de Puniet   Pramac Ducati   1m40.982s  + 0.881s
 7.  Ben Spies         Yamaha          1m41.053s  + 0.952s
 8.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati          1m41.058s  + 0.957s
 9.  Hiroshi Aoyama    Gresini Honda   1m41.292s  + 1.191s
10.  Karel Abraham     Cardion Ducati  1m41.304s  + 1.203s
11.  Colin Edwards     Tech 3 Yamaha   1m41.337s  + 1.236s
12.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda           1m41.407s  + 1.306s
13.  Hector Barbera    Aspar Ducati    1m41.665s  + 1.564s
14.  Loris Capirossi   Pramac Ducati   1m41.810s  + 1.709s
15.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha   1m41.854s  + 1.753s
16.  John Hopkins      Suzuki          1m42.305s  + 2.204s
17.  Toni Elias        LCR Honda       1m42.690s  + 2.589s