A private Honda MotoGP test began at Sepang in M🍌alaysia on Monday.

2012 MotoGP title runner-up Dani Pedrosa꧙ is not in attendance, but roo♔kie Repsol Honda team-mate Marc Marquez is on track, alongside Gresini Honda's Alvaro Bautista and factory test riders Kousuke Akiyoshi and Takumi Takahashi.

By 2pm on Monday, just before the arrival of rain, Bautista was fastest with a 2m 2.19s lap, followed by Marquez with a 2m 3.65s from his 26 dry lap🐼s.

Those times compare with an official race lap record of 2m 2.108s, b🎃y Casey Stoner on a Ducati back iཧn 2007, although Jorge Lorenzo put his Yamaha on pole with a 2m 0.334s in October's grand prix.

The fastest unofficial Sepang lap is a 1m 59.607s, set by ꧋retired champion Stoner on a Repsol Honda during testing i⛎n February.

Moto2 champion Marquez, taking Stoner's place at the factory RCV team, impressed by being just🐼 1.018s from the top after his first 27 laps on a ꦫMotoGP bike at the recent Valencia test (pictured).

Testing ꦚis due🙈 to continue for three days at Sepang.

Ducati wi꧃ll hold its final private test of the year at Jere꧅z from November 28-30, just before the start of the winter test ban.

However factory Yamaha racers Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi are not scheduled to ride the🧸ir M1s again until t𝐆he first official 2013 test at Sepang in February.