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Finally, after an endless day and a half of waiting since the 2007 season finished, the 2008 season has finally begun! This afternoon, the teams and riders rolled out of their pit boxes to test their new machinery, and in several cases, their new teams, for the start of the '08 pre-season. The Italian site GPone.com has images and times from the first half of the test on their website.
Times taken at 3pm CET.
| Casey Stoner | Ducati | 1'32:393 |
| Nicky Hayden | Honda | 1'33:176 |
| Chris Vermeulen | Suzuki | 1'33:634 |
| Loris Capirossi | Suzuki | 1'33:669 |
| Toni Elias | Ducati | 1'33:911 |
| Shinya Nakano | Honda | 1'34:561 |
| Randy De Puniet | Honda | 1'34:804 |
| Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 1'34:926 |
| John Hopkins | Kawasaki | 1'35:128 |
| Marco Melandri | Ducati | 1'35:267 |
| Sylvain Guintoli | Ducati | 1'35:695 |
| Olivier Jacque | Kawasaki | 1'36:034 |
| Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki | 1'36:826 |
| Alex De Angelis | Honda | 1'36:934 |
| Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 1'37:115 |
| Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 1'37:255 |
~~~ UPDATED ~~~
Times taken at 3pm CET.
| Casey Stoner | Ducati | 1'32:348 |
| Nicky Hayden | Honda | 1'33:176 |
| Chris Vermeulen | Suzuki | 1'33:186 |
| Dani Pedrosa | Honda | 1'33:629 |
| Loris Capirossi | Suzuki | 1'33:669 |
| Toni Elias | Ducati | 1'33:853 |
| Randy De Puniet | Honda | 1'33:881 |
| John Hopkins | Kawasaki | 1'34:277 |
| Shinya Nakano | Honda | 1'34:511 |
| Marco Melandri | Ducati | 1'34:978 |
| Sylvain Guintoli | Ducati | 1'35:047 |
| Andrea Dovizioso | Honda | 1'35:156 |
| Jorge Lorenzo | Yamaha | 1'35:206 |
| Nobuatsu Aoki | Suzuki | 1'36:826 |
| Olivier Jacque | Kawasaki | 1'35:822 |
| Alex De Angelis | Honda | 1'35:927 |
| Vittoriano Guareschi | Ducati | 1'36:727 |
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