Stoner dominates Valencia warm-up

Casey Stoner dominated the warm-up ahead of this afternoon's Valencia MotoGP, as the four quickest riders of the morning fully reflect yesterday's qualifying

The Ducati Marlboro rider was never challenged for the top spot throughout the sunny 25-minute session. The Australian set his best time of 1:32.844 with ten minutes remaining, with the closest rival - Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa - ending up over half a second behind.

Pedrosa's teammate Nicky Hayden, who crashed his bike with nine minutes of the session to go and had to walk back to the pits, was third quickest a further two tenths behind the Spaniard.

Just six thousandths of a second behind Hayden was fellow American Colin Edwards with his Tech 3 Yamaha, while Fiat Yamaha's Valentino Rossi had a better session today by ending up fifth, eight tenths behind Stoner, after having qualified down in tenth place yesterday.

Randy de Puniet was the quickest customer Honda rider today with his LCR entry in sixth, ahead of the satellite Hondas of Alex de Angelis (Gresini), Andrea Dovizioso (JiR) and Shinya Nakano (Gresini).

Chris Vermeulen completes the top ten with his Rizla Suzuki, followed by Marco Melandri's works Ducati and Jorge Lorenzo's factory Yamaha.

Pos  Rider             Bike           Time
 1.  Casey Stoner      Ducati    (B)  1:32.844
 2.  Daniel Pedrosa    Honda     (B)  1:33.382 + 0.538
 3.  Nicky Hayden      Honda     (M)  1:33.599 + 0.755
 4.  Colin Edwards     Yamaha    (M)  1:33.605 + 0.761
 5.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha    (B)  1:33.676 + 0.832
 6.  Randy de Puniet   Honda     (M)  1:33.749 + 0.905
 7.  Alex de Angelis   Honda     (B)  1:33.973 + 1.129
 8.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda     (M)  1:33.982 + 1.138
 9.  Shinya Nakano     Honda     (B)  1:34.010 + 1.166
10.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki    (B)  1:34.252 + 1.408
11.  Marco Melandri    Ducati    (B)  1:34.280 + 1.436
12.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha    (M)  1:34.328 + 1.484
13.  Sylvain Guintoli  Ducati    (B)  1:34.338 + 1.494
14.  Loris Capirossi   Suzuki    (B)  1:34.515 + 1.671
15.  John Hopkins      Kawasaki  (B)  1:34.587 + 1.743
16.  James Toseland    Yamaha    (M)  1:34.700 + 1.856
17.  Toni Elias        Ducati    (B)  1:34.957 + 2.113
18.  Anthony West      Kawasaki  (B)  1:34.992 + 2.148