Marlboro Ducati's Valentino Rossi has admitted there have been more handags at 20 paces with auld enemy Casey Stoner, this time during the official MotoGP test at Estoril.

Parts of the Italian media have said Rossi is claiming the Australian deliberately waited for The Doctor in order to get in his way and then did it again a little later. Earlier reports that Stoner forced Rossi off track have dried up.

The stout and more-intelligent-than-us chaps at motomatters.com have translated what has been reported so far and say that at a shop opening, Rossi said: 'To me, it looked like he did it on purpose' but it was 'not a big problem' and 'just a bit of fun'.

Hopefully, we shall get to the bottom of this by the end of the Le Mans weekend. But, more than likely, we won't...