Repsol Honda's Casey Stoner has resumed normal service in the final, and dry, MotoGP free practice session at Valencia, setting the fastest lap with only team-mate Dani Pedrosa having the speed to get within a second of the Australian while Randy De Puniet confirmed his pace in third.
Stoner's 1'32.619 is still a second outside his own lap record but it was six-tenths faster than Pedrosa while Pramac Ducati's De Puniet was another half-second in arrears but showed yesterday's speed was not just because it was raining.
Andrea Dovizioso took fourth with his last lap of the session but is 1.3s slower than Stoner while Ben Spies, who fell off his Factory Yamaha yesterday, is fifth on a 1'33.977 and the last rider inside the 1'34s mark. He bashed himself around but said his injuries had not been made any worse.
Marlboro Ducati's Valentino Rossi is in sixth but nearly 1.7s off the pace of old enemy Stoner while yesterday's wet weather master Alvaro Bautista is only 0.041 s slower than the nine-time world champion in seventh. Nicky Hayden is eighth, Hector Barbera ninth and Hiro Aoyama tenth.
Britain's Cal Crutchlow finished in 13th place, one behind Rookie of the Year challenger Karel Abraham, and 2.7s off the pace while his temporary Monster Yamaha team-mate Josh Hayes is in 16th and a further nine-tenths slower.
