Danilo Petrucci was quickest in a very quiet opening MotoGP practice session at Misano.

Damp and very cold conditions dissuaded most of the prototype field from coming out, meaning the timesheets were dominated by CRT riders. Petrucci's late 1m43.178s on the Suter-BMW that Ioda has switched to this weekend put him 0.2 seconds ahead of Michele Pirro's Gresini FTR-Honda.

James Ellison completed the top three on Paul Bird's Aprilia. Fourth went to newcomer David Salom, replacing Ivan Silva in the Avintia line-up.

Only two prototype riders set times: Yamaha's Ben Spies in fifth and Ducati's Nicky Hayden in seventh.

Title rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, and Casey Stoner's stand-in Jonathan Rea, were among the large number of riders who preferred to wait for better conditions later on.

Pos  Rider              Bike              Time              Laps
 1.  Danilo Petrucci    Suter             1m43.178s           11
 2.  Michele Pirro      FTR               1m43.327s  + 0.149  13
 3.  James Ellison      ART               1m45.730s  + 2.552  15
 4.  David Salom        BQR               1m46.886s  + 3.708  12
 5.  Ben Spies          Tech 3 Yamaha     1m48.298s  + 5.120   6
 6.  Nicky Hayden       Ducati            1m48.409s  + 5.231   5
 7.  Yonny Hernandez    BQR               1m48.553s  + 5.375   9
 8.  Mattia Pasini      ART               1m50.482s  + 7.304   9
 9.  Colin Edwards      Suter             1m53.064s  + 9.886   7