Jorge Lorenzo broke the Brno circuit record with a pace that not even Fiat Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi could match as they prepared for 11th round of World MotoGP in the Czech Republic.
Lorenzo put in a series of consistently fast laps, the best of which came in 1min 56.595sec as he prepared for a race in which he is determined to peg back a 25-point deficit on Rossi.
They are locked in what is virtually a private duel for supremacy, given the absence for this race and the next two, of the ill Casey Stoner, although Dani Pedrosa, currently fourth in the standings, 72 points down on Rossi, cannot be completely ruled out.
Pedrosa, third fastest here with a lap of 1min 57.584sec, was just ahead of Tech3 Yamaha rider Colin Edwards and Andrea Dozivioso, the winner of the previous British round, while Mika Kallio, deputising for Stoner, looked impressive in seventh place on the leaderboard.
There was continuing struggle however for Yorkshireman James Toseland, 11th fastest and some two seconds down on Lorenzo, but in the 125cc Grand Prix Oxford's Bradley Smith claimed provisional pole.
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