If, as MotoGP boss Carmela Ezpeleta wants, Claiming Rule Teams and their regulations are the future of the blue riband class, the future needs to hurry up as the fastest CRT package at the Valencia test was still four seconds a lap slower than quickest man Dani Pedrosa.

The Laglisse Suter-chassied, BMW-powered bike, ridden by wunderkind Carmelo Morales, has had a year or so of development work but is still painfully slow at a tight, twisty circuit like Valencia. It may be a different matter when the fast BMW motor gets to Silverstone or Phillip Island.

World Champion Casey Stoner had this to say about their pace: "I couldn't believe it. They looked like they were half a lap in front of me and then two laps later I am overtaking them, it was quite surprising…"

Colin Edwards could have been on the money when he said he wanted an R1 motor as a domestic Superbike race engine went to a track recently knocking out 223bhp at the rear wheel with 'more to come' from some port work and a different camshaft profile.

Ivan Silva's Inmotec was a little under five seconds in arrears but that hasn't got a production engine, so doesn't really count. But if you look at Silva's laptimes from Formula Extreme at Valencia today (Nov 12) , he is lapping at 1'34.726, so it isn't the rider...

The FTR-framed BQR/Kawasaki, ridden by Yonny Hernandez, was a little under six seconds off the pace and in the same kind of bracket as the now dropped MarcVDS MotoGP bike was a few tests ago while the Grillini, with Federico Sandi at the helm, looks like it was built in a bin and was about as fast.

CRT times:

Carmelo Morales TeamLaglisse 1:35.911 +1.071 +4.104 67 (CRT)

Ivan Silva BQR Inmotec 1:36.695 +0.784 +4.888 52 (CRT)

Yonny Hernandez BQR FTR 1:37.279 +0.584 +5.472 30 (CRT)

Federico Sandi Grillini Team 1:38.680 +1.401 +6.873 26 (CRT)

Dani Pedrosa - 1:31.807