Stoner also dominates warm-up

Casey Stoner has continued with his perfect form in Valencia by also dominating the warm-up, just like every other session this weekend

The Ducati former world champion, who ran less than everyone else, stopped the clock at 1m32.856s when the 20-minute session had just passed its half-way mark. At that time, all his rivals were well over one second slower than him.

By the end of the session, however, Valentino Rossi managed to edge closer and closer, albeit a full six tenths slower than Stoner.

However, after struggling in yesterday's free practice and qualifying a distant fourth, the Yamaha rider may have reasons to be optimistic to fight for the podium in the race.

Colin Edwards (Tech 3 Yamaha) was third quickest, almost nine tenths behind Stoner, followed by Nicky Hayden (Ducati) and the two Yamahas of the impressive Ben Spies and Jorge Lorenzo.

The latter three riders are all within five thousandths of a second of each other, almost a full second behind Stoner..

Honda's Andrea Dovizioso set the seventh fastest time, with Pramac Ducati's Mika Kallio, Gresini Honda's Alex de Angelis and Hayate Kawasaki's Marco Melandri completing the top ten.

Dani Pedrosa, who qualified his Honda in second position yesterday, was only eleventh in this morning session, 1.3 seconds behind Stoner.

Pos  Rider             Team             Time               Laps
 1.  Casey Stoner      Ducati           1m32.856s            8
 2.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha           1m33.460s + 0.604s  12
 3.  Colin Edwards     Tech 3 Yamaha    1m33.744s + 0.888s  12
 4.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati           1m33.820s + 0.964s  13
 5.  Ben Spies         Yamaha           1m33.823s + 0.967s  12
 6.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha           1m33.825s + 0.969s  12
 7.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda            1m33.934s + 1.078s  12
 8.  Mika Kallio       Pramac Ducati    1m33.945s + 1.089s  12
 9.  Alex de Angelis   Gresini Honda    1m34.017s + 1.161s  13
10.  Marco Melandri    Hayate Kawasaki  1m34.105s + 1.249s  12
11.  Daniel Pedrosa    Honda            1m34.187s + 1.331s  12
12.  Randy de Puniet   LCR Honda        1m34.351s + 1.495s  12
13.  Aleix Espargaro   Pramac Ducati    1m34.378s + 1.522s  12
14.  Loris Capirossi   Suzuki           1m34.516s + 1.660s  12
15.  Toni Elias        Gresini Honda    1m34.615s + 1.759s  11
16.  James Toseland    Tech 3 Yamaha    1m34.638s + 1.782s  12
17.  Gabor Talmacsi    Scot Honda       1m34.897s + 2.041s  12
18.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki           1m35.167s + 2.311s  10