Yuki-san and Alstare lead testers on final day.

World Superbike new boy Yukio Kagayama set the fastest time on the final day of the official pre-season WSBK test at Qatar.

As the timer counted down to the last half hour of the final session all the testers turned their attention to qualifying and used their extra sticky rubber for the remainder of the session.

This saw times tumble, with Yamaha Motor France's Sebastien Gimbert being the first to break the 2min 01secs barrier.

Yamaha Sterilgarda's Jose Luis Cardoso was the next rider to smash through the 2min 01secs wall, setting his best time of the test with a 2min 01.797secs, which briefly saw him hold the top spot.

That was until the Alstare Suzuki team let their riders on track with their qualifying tyres. Both Troy Corser and Yukio Kagayama went over half a second quicker than they did on race tyres to jump back to the top of the timing sheets, however there was a shock in store for the Corona backed team. Instead of Troy being the top rider, as he had lead the field over the test, it was new boy Yukio Kagayama.

Regis Laconi fought hard to put a Ducati amongst the four-cylinder machines. He took the fourth fastest time in the dying stages also using a qualifying tyre, taking nearly a whole second off his previous time on race tyres. His World Champion team-mate James Toseland seems to have had difficulty setting up the Factory Ducati, only managing to set the tenth fastest time, 1.2secs off the fastest rider, and only the second twin in the top ten. However James may not have used a qualifying tyre as his team-mate had and went over 0.7secs faster.

Chris Walker on his return to the yellow machine put in a blinding effort to take the seventh fastest time of the test, and again manages to be the top Kawasaki rider.

The highest placed non-factory F05 Ducati was Lorenzo Lanzi on the SC Caracchi machine in 13th place, he also set the fastest speed through the trap at 311kph or 194.3mph.

Qatar official test - fastest times (set on final day)
1. Yukio Kagayama Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra GSXR1000 K5 2min 01.480secs
2. Troy Corser Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra GSXR1000 K5 2min 01.554secs
3. Jose Luis Cardoso D.F.X. Treme Yamaha YZF R1 2min 01.797secs
4. Regis Laconi Ducati Xerox 999F05 2min 01.827secs
5. Sebastien Gimbert Yamaha Motor France-Ipone YZF R1 2min 01.956secs
6. Ivan Silva Alberola La Glisse Yamaha YZF R1 2min 02.194secs WC
7. Chris Walker PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse ZX10 2min 02.442secs
8. Marco Borciani DFXtreme Sterilgarda Yamaha YZF R1 2min 02.548secs
9. Noriyuki Haga Yamaha Motor Italia WSB YZF R1 2min 02.591secs
10. James Toseland Ducati Xerox 999F05 2min 02.639secs
11. Norick Abe Yamaha Motor France-Ipone YZF R1 2min 02.652
12. Andrew Pitt Yamaha Motor Italia WSB YZF R1 2min 02.713secs
13. Lorenzo Lanzi Ducati SC Caracchi 999RS 2min 02.923secs
14. Pierfrancesco Chili Klaffi Honda CBR 1000RR 2min 03.008secs
15. Chris Vermeulen Winston Ten Kate Honda CBR 1000RR 2min 03.072secs
16. Gianluca Vizziello Italia Lorenzini by Leoni Yamaha YZF R1 2min 03.095secs
17. Karl Muggeridge Winston Ten Kate Honda CBR 1000RR 2min 03.391secs
18. Mauro Sanchini PSG-1 Kawasaki Corse ZX10 2min 03.398secs
19. Giovanni Bussei Kawasaki Bertocchi ZX10 2min 03.602secs
20. Fonsi Nieto Ducati SC Caracchi 999RS 2min 03.659secs
21. Max Neukirchner Klaffi Honda CBR 1000RR 2min 03.874secs
22. Lucio Pedercini Team Pedercini Ducati 999RS 2min 04.048secs
23. Ben Bostrom Renegade Koji Honda CBR 1000RR 2min 04.285secs
24. Steve Martin Foggy Petronas Racing FP1 2min 04.483secs
25. Alessio Velini Team Pedercini Ducati 999RS 2min 04.864secs
26. Ivan Clementi Kawasaki Bertocchi ZX10 2min 05.047secs
27. Garry McCoy Foggy Petronas Racing FP1 2min 05.455secs
28. Miguel Praia DFXtreme Sterilgarda Yamaha YZF R1 2min 05.472secs
29. Talal Al Nuami La Glisse Yamaha YZF R1 2min 10.263secs WC

[ WC - Denotes wild card entrant]