Stoner fastest in extended second session

With this morning's dry session extended to two hours after yesterday's downpour caused the cancelation of Misano Adriatico's afternoon running, championship leader Stoner was the only rider breaking the 1 minute 35 seconds barrier with a time of 1:34.714.

Valentino Rossi challenged the Australian and often managed to top the timesheets with his Fiat Yamaha, but ultimately fell short by getting the second best time, just over half a second behind his rival.

Anthony West was a surprise third with his Kawasaki, 0.352 behind Rossi. Honda LCR's Carlos Checa set the fourth fastest time, six hundredths of a second behind West.

Rossi's teammate Colin Edwards and Rizla Suzuki's Chris Vermeulen, fifth and sixth fastest respectively, just managed to stay within one second of Stoner's best time.

Randy de Puniet was seventh on the other Kawasaki, followed by the two Repsol Hondas of Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa. Stoner's teammate Loris Capirossi rounded up the top ten.

After topping yesterday morning's practice, Marco Melandri suffered a high-speed tumble today, but he was eventually allowed to rejoin the last ten minutes of the session on his spare bike after being examined at Clinica Mobile.

Pos  Rider             Bike      Time
 1.  Casey Stoner      Ducati    1:34.714
 2.  Valentino Rossi   Yamaha    1:35.230 + 0.516
 3.  Anthony West      Kawasaki  1:35.582 + 0.868
 4.  Carlos Checa      Honda     1:35.644 + 0.930
 5.  Colin Edwards     Yamaha    1:35.660 + 0.946
 6.  Chris Vermeulen   Suzuki    1:35.708 + 0.994
 7.  Randy de Puniet   Kawasaki  1:35.778 + 1.064
 8.  Nicky Hayden      Honda     1:35.850 + 1.136
 9.  Daniel Pedrosa    Honda     1:35.998 + 1.284
10.  Loris Capirossi   Ducati    1:36.069 + 1.355
11.  John Hopkins      Suzuki    1:36.265 + 1.551
12.  Makoto Tamada     Yamaha    1:36.321 + 1.607
13.  Alex Barros       Ducati    1:36.484 + 1.770
14.  Sylvain Guintoli  Yamaha    1:36.501 + 1.787
15.  Marco Melandri    Honda     1:36.649 + 1.935
16.  Alex Hofmann      Ducati    1:37.087 + 2.373
17.  Toni Elías        Honda     1:37.412 + 2.698
18.  Kurtis Roberts    KR        1:37.489 + 2.775
19.  Shinya Nakano     Honda     1:37.770 + 3.056