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Casey Stoner quickest again in Qatar MotoGP practice two

A late surge from Casey Stoner took the MotoGP world champion back to first place at the end of the second free practice session for the Qatar Grand Prix

Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo had been the man to beat for most of the 45 minutes, holding a comfortable advantage over his rivals.

But then Stoner (Honda) jumped from sixth to first with a 1m55.960s, beating Lorenzo by 0.214 seconds.

It was still a very encouraging session for Yamaha, as Tech 3's Andrea Dovizioso and works rider Ben Spies completed the top four.

Stoner's team-mate Dani Pedrosa crashed at Turn 8 halfway through the session, but was unhurt and rejoined to take sixth.

Ducati's lead runner was Pramac rider Hector Barbera, who grabbed fifth place - two positions ahead of top works rider Nicky Hayden, with Valentino Rossi down in 10th.

Cal Crutchlow again appeared near the head of the timesheets for a while before others' late improvements pushed the Tech 3 man back, this time to eighth.

Colin Edwards led the CRT pack on Forward's Suter-BMW, lapping a tenth quicker than Aspar Aprilia man Randy de Puniet.

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike             Time       Gap
 1.  Casey Stoner      Honda                 1m55.960s
 2.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                1m56.174s  + 0.214s
 3.  Andrea Dovizioso  Tech 3 Yamaha         1m56.648s  + 0.688s
 4.  Ben Spies         Yamaha                1m56.671s  + 0.711s
 5.  Hector Barbera    Pramac Ducati         1m56.678s  + 0.718s
 6.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda                 1m56.697s  + 0.737s
 7.  Nicky Hayden      Ducati                1m56.782s  + 0.822s
 8.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha         1m56.814s  + 0.854s
 9.  Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda             1m57.197s  + 1.237s
10.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati                1m57.274s  + 1.314s
11.  Karel Abraham     Cardion Ducati        1m57.523s  + 1.563s
12.  Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda         1m57.668s  + 1.708s
13.  Colin Edwards     Forward Suter-BMW     1m58.801s  + 2.841s
14.  Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia         1m58.945s  + 2.985s
15.  Yonny Hernandez   Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  1m59.698s  + 3.738s
16.  Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia         1m59.997s  + 4.037s
17.  Michele Pirro     Gresini FTR-Honda     2m00.231s  + 4.271s
18.  Mattia Pasini     Speed Master Aprilia  2m00.373s  + 4.413s
19.  Danilo Petrucci   Ioda-Aprilia          2m00.404s  + 4.444s
20.  Ivan Silva        Avintia FTR-Kawasaki  2m00.787s  + 4.827s
21.  James Ellison     Paul Bird Aprilia     2m02.112s  + 6.152s

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