Early on, Marquez produced an amazing save at Turn 13, using his knee to miraculously push the bike back up when most would have crashed.

He lapped in 1m55.840s to top the session by a tenth from Iannone, with Lorenzo just 0.033s further back.

Story of the session

Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi set the early pace on 1m57.642s with Iannone 0.04s behind after their first flying laps. Riding on track together, Rossi’s next lap of 1m56.689s was topped by the following Iannone by 0.179s on 1m56.510s.

Rossi restored himself to the top spot a few minutes later on 1m56.490s – 0.020s faster than the Ducati. Suzuki’s Maverick Vinales was third at this point on 1m56.725s, almost a quarter of a second off the pace.

On his second run, Iannone improved to 1m56.467s to retake P1 by 0.023s. Lorenzo jumped up to third on 1m56.669s, but Vinales immediately retook it with 1m56.576s.

With seven minutes remaining, Andrea Dovizioso jumped to the top of the times with a lap of 1m56.235s on his works Ducati, which was fastest by 0.232s.

Lorenzo then took that away with 1m56.228s, 0.007s quicker than the Ducati man. Lorenzo improved again, lowering the P1 time to 1m55.977s – over a quarter of a second clear. Rossi improved to third on 1m56.174s.

Marquez takes control

Despite his early scare, Marquez vaulted into P1 with 1m55.966s in the closing stages, 0.011s faster than Lorenzo. He improved on that on his next lap, a 1m55.840s which stood as the fastest time of the session.

Iannone went third on 1m56.110s, and then grabbed second from Lorenzo with 1m55.944s on his last lap of the session.

Hector Barbera ended up fourth on his Avintia Ducati, benefiting from a tow from Dani Pedrosa to get to within 0.284s pole time.

Rossi was fifth, ahead of Dovizioso, Aleix Espargaro, Bradley Smith, Vinales and Pedrosa.

Redding crashed at Turn 11, losing the front end and taking a trip through the gravel.

Rossi, Iannone and Cal Crutchlow had lap times deleted for exceeding track limits.

Second practice results:

Cla	Driver	Bike	Time	Gap
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	1'55.840
2	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	1'55.944	0.104
3	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	1'55.977	0.137
4	Hector Barbera	Ducati	1'56.124	0.284
5	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	1'56.174	0.334
6	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'56.235	0.395
7	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	1'56.441	0.601
8	Bradley Smith	Yamaha	1'56.494	0.654
9	Maverick Viñales	Suzuki	1'56.615	0.775
10	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	1'56.662	0.822
11	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'56.837	0.997
12	Loris Baz	Ducati	1'56.957	1.117
13	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	1'57.052	1.212
14	Scott Redding	Ducati	1'57.090	1.250
15	Pol Espargaro	Yamaha	1'57.335	1.495
16	Eugene Laverty	Ducati	1'57.336	1.496
17	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia	1'57.471	1.631
18	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia	1'57.569	1.729
19	Yonny Hernandez	Ducati	1'57.724	1.884
20	Tito Rabat	Honda	1'58.054	2.214