Casey Stoner set the pace in Saturday's free practice sessions for Sunday's French Grand Prix at Le Mans.
The Repsol Honda rider broke the circuit record this morning and this afternoon went even quicker, his best lap of one minute 33.782 seconds good enough to hand him an advantage of more than fourth tenths of a second over Marco Simoncelli (Honda Gresini).
Simoncelli's performance for the satellite Honda team saw him outpace factory rider Dani Pedrosa, who had to settle for third place, nearly seven-tenths down on team-mate Stoner.
Nicky Hayden finished as the fastest of the Ducati riders in fourth place, while MotoGP series leader Jorge Lorenzo was down in fifth place, nearly a second off the quickest time, on the factory Yamaha.
The third factory Honda of Andrea Dovizioso was sixth, ahead of Colin Edwards (Yamaha Tech 3) and Hiroshi Aoyama (San Carlo Honda).
Hayden's factory Ducati team-mate Valentino Rossi, who has struggled for pace at the start of the new season, again looked laboured as he finished down in ninth place, while Ben Spies was 10th on the second factory Yamaha.
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