Stoner fastest in final MotoGP test

Honda has been fastest on all eight days of winter testing, and the works team took another one-two at Losail, with Stoner's 1m55.681s in the closing stages beating Pedrosa by 0.064 seconds.

Ben Spies at least managed to interrupt the Honda formation by getting the works Yamaha up to third, ahead of Gresini Honda's Marco Simoncelli and third factory Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso.

Randy de Puniet bounced back from his Sunday crashes to take an excellent sixth on the Pramac Ducati, in his strongest performance since joining the team.

World champion Jorge Lorenzo was only seventh for Yamaha - but he fared better than his erstwhile team-mate Valentino Rossi, whose Ducati was back in 13th place, albeit just 0.3s down on Lorenzo in the very tight midfield.

Rossi also had a crash during the evening, but he was in good company, with a huge number of falls on a surface made treacherous by sand blown in on the night's strong winds.

Every Ducati rider bar de Puniet had an incident today, with works rider Nicky Hayden, Aspar's Hector Barbera, Pramac's Loris Capirossi and Cardion's Karel Abraham also falling, as did Suzuki rider Alvaro Bautista, LCR Honda's Toni Elias and Tech 3 Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow.

The Briton was the only rider to sustain an injury, damage to a finger truncating his evening.

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike       Time       Gap       Laps
 1.  Casey Stoner      Honda           1m55.681s            46
 2.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda           1m55.745s  + 0.064s  39
 3.  Ben Spies         Yamaha          1m56.294s  + 0.613s  45
 4.  Marco Simoncelli  Gresini Honda   1m56.433s  + 0.752s  70
 5.  Andrea Dovizioso  Honda           1m56.439s  + 0.758s  58
 6.  Randy de Puniet   Pramac Ducati   1m56.445s  + 0.764s  67
 7.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha          1m56.707s  + 1.026s  48
 8.  Colin Edwards     Tech 3 Yamaha   1m56.716s  + 1.035s  57
 9.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati          1m56.726s  + 1.045s  68
10.  Hiroshi Aoyama    Gresini Honda   1m56.740s  + 1.059s  73
11.  Hector Barbera    Aspar Ducati    1m56.798s  + 1.117s  62
12.  Alvaro Bautista   Suzuki          1m56.931s  + 1.250s  63
13.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati          1m56.988s  + 1.307s  50
14.  Loris Capirossi   Pramac Ducati   1m57.345s  + 1.664s  62
15.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha   1m57.730s  + 2.049s  28
16.  Karel Abraham     Cardion Ducati  1m57.846s  + 2.165s  49
17.  Toni Elias        LCR Honda       1m58.536s  + 2.855s  57