Alex de Angelis couldn't continue his top-three ranking from the first two days - the San Marinese rookie being relegated to seventh after only slightly bettering his day two best - but it was nonetheless a promising performance and he still finished one place and 0.29secs ahead of Gresini Honda team-mate Shinya Nakano.

Alice Team's Toni Elias nudged up to ninth on the final day, just ahead of Honda LCR's Randy de Puniet. The Frenchman had a 'quiet' test by his Sepang standards, but notched up more Friday laps than anyone else, totalling 115 circulations! Countryman Sylvain Guintoli was just 0.005secs behind Randy on the second satellite-spec Desmosedici GP8.

Stoner's new team-mate Marco Melandri had made a 'great start' to the test with sixth on Wednesday, but finished the test twelfth fastest on Friday and once again stuck to race tyres. Melandri competed 108 Friday laps.

Capirossi was 0.13secs behind his 2008 replacement, while the lone Kawasaki of Anthony West completed the field.

Many of the teams present at Phillip Island will not join the Fiat Yamaha Team in action next time out at Sepang from February 5-7, but instead be back on track at the following Jerez IRTA test, which takes place from February 16-18.

Hopkins and Pedrosa both hope to be fit enough to return to action at that test.