Casey Stoner admits his wrist is continuing to prevent him from working on the set-up of the Ducati GP9, despite the former champion going quickest o𝄹n the second day of MotoGP pre-season testing at Sepang, Malaysia.

Still reeling from tไhe effects of his wrജist surgery towards the end of last year, Stoner was nonetheless on fine form as he swept to the top of the timesheets with the quickest lap of the test so far.

However, after completing just 29 laps over the course of the daꦏy, the least of any rider, Stoner has revealed the pain is forcing him to complete just short bursts of laps before he is forced to take a break.

It means that, despite his quick lap times, he is unable to spend ꦯenough time on track to establish a good set-up on the latest evolution of the Desmosedici. It is a situation he is frustrated with.

"The ♛wrist is giving me a lot of problems and I can't manꦚage more than two or three laps at a time, so it's difficult to work on set-up because I'm having to break off too often.

Noneth💎eless, Stoner is remaining positive, adding that the bike has improved through the day, while he is certain he is well onܫ the way to full fitness.

"We've still managed to do some work on improving the feeling on the GP9, with some changes to the rear set-up 🐷that have im🧜proved the bike in the area we were suffering the most. Now it is much easier to ride.

"I still can't ride how I want though and we really need to string a run of consistent laps together, alth✨ough I know that if I can get a little closer to 100% fitness that problem will be resolved. Hopefully the wrist will feel a bit better tomorrow so that I can try and do a longer run and confirm the positive feedback we've had from the bike to🦹day."