Practice report

Assen MotoGP: Vinales leads Quartararo in FP2

Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales topped the second practice session of the Dutch TT, coming just 0.011s shy of the track's MotoGP lap record.

Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso led most of the session with a 1m33.223s before the field put on new tyres for the last five minutes of FP2.

Vinales then went four tenths faster, before managing another big improvement to set a 1m32.638s, coming up just short of teammate Valentino Rossi's lap record set in 2015.

Fabio Quartararo again completed a Yamaha 1-2, going 0.180s slower than Vinales, with Danilo Petrucci completing the same top three as in FP1 on the best of the Ducatis.

Petrucci was followed by his teammate Dovizioso and Suzuki's Alex Rins.

Andrea Iannone held a shock lead for a few seconds early in the session after following Marc Marquez for a fast lap, but another attempt at a fast lap at the end of FP2 resulted in a crash.

The Aprilia rider was still sixth in the session, narrowly outpacing Marquez (Honda) and Joan Mir (Suzuki).

A late improvement from Rossi put the Italian ninth and into a provisional Q2 spot, with Cal Crutchlow completing the top 10 on the LCR Honda.

KTM had a low-key session, with its quickest rider Pol Espargaro only taking 15th and Johann Zarco crashing at Turn 7.

Session results:

Cla	#	Rider	Bike	Time	Gap
1	12	Maverick Viñales	Yamaha	1'32.638
2	20	Fabio Quartararo	Yamaha	1'32.818	0.180
3	9	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'32.952	0.314
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'33.223	0.585
5	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'33.305	0.667
6	29	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	1'33.355	0.717
7	93	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'33.413	0.775
8	36	Joan Mir	Suzuki	1'33.415	0.777
9	46	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'33.517	0.879
10	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'33.727	1.089
11	63	Francesco Bagnaia	Ducati	1'33.815	1.177
12	17	Karel Abraham	Ducati	1'33.854	1.216
13	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'33.874	1.236
14	21	Franco Morbidelli	Yamaha	1'33.963	1.325
15	44	Pol Espargaro	KTM	1'33.971	1.333
16	30	Takaaki Nakagami	Honda	1'34.040	1.402
17	5	Johann Zarco	KTM	1'34.194	1.556
18	53	Tito Rabat	Ducati	1'34.370	1.732
19	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'34.537	1.899
20	88	Miguel Oliveira	KTM	1'34.628	1.990
21	55	Hafizh Syahrin	KTM	1'35.250	2.612
	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda
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