Dani Pedrosa set the fastest lap time in the dying seconds of the session to clock a best time of 1.
38.
627 in Friday’s practice at Donington Park.
A heavy rain shower during the 125cc session left the track wet for the start of the MotoGP practice, but the weather conditions slowly improved and a strong wind starting drying out the track.
Pedrosa’s last lap knocked factory Ducati rider Casey Stoner off top spot.
Stoner who had been leading the chart by 0.
245 secs, was second, but was also the rider who did the fewest laps of anyone in the field and sat out the last minutes talking with his team.
Valentino Rossi clocked a best time of 1.
38.
917 to finish just 0.
045s adrift of Stoner and almost three tenths from Pedrosa.
Andrea Dovizioso who had been up to second during the session finished fourth, while Lorenzo was down to fifth, 0.
478s off Pedrosa’s best lap.
Marco Melandri had an impressive session , running in the top three for much of the session with his Hayate finally finished sixth.
Mika Kallio seventh, and Colin Edwards to eighth, Toni Elias and Nicky Hayden closed the top ten .
Loris Capirossi was eleventh and James Toseland was running in the top six, but fell back to 12th when his Yamaha ran out of fuel.
Gabor Talmacsi was also impressive during this free practice especially on the wet, was 13th and Chris Vermeulen 14th.
Randy de Puniet, Alex de Angelis and Niccolo Canepa occupied the remaining places.