There were early dramas for Joan Mir as the Repsol Honda rider ran ꧂wide at turn one and covered his tyres in grav꧂el.

Mir, who cut a frustrated figure in Practice 1 following another mistake at turn two, was 17th quickest after ten mi🔯nutes of Practice 2, one position behind Honda test rider Stefan Bradl. 

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With conditions much warmer than this෴ morning, lap times were a considera😼ble way off Dani Pedrosa’s time of 1:36.770s. 

After𝕴 no crashes in Practice 1, Iker Lecuona was the first rider to come unstuck as he crashed at turn 13. 

While Pedrosa remained quickest on combined tim꧟es, full-time factory KTM rider Brad Binder, who fin🀅ished sixth in P1, was still without a time after a quarter of the session gone. 

Narrowly avoiding crashes at turns one and two, Mir eventually went down after losing the front-end of his RC213V at🃏 turn six. 

With race runs continuing to dominate P2, a red f🦹lag then halted the on-track action as the air fence at the final corner was damaged due to Lecuona’s earl🍨y fall. 

The red flag was only brie💝f however, as Mavꦬerick Vinales was the first rider to head out of pit lane. 

Showing promising speed again after a solid P1 performance, Aleix Espargaro resumed🔯 P2 by taking over top spot before finding even more time on his 💟next lap.

Marco Bezzecchi’s P2 session was majorly hampered by a big blow up on the run towards turn six. Smoke was seen coming out of the Ducati rider’s GꦏP22 machine before the series leader pulled off the circuit and handed his bike to marshals.

Still not himself after making his return from injury, Bastianini was down in 21st place with𝔉 20 minutes 🎃to go as he struggled to put several laps together. 

With 15 minutes to go, the opening flurry of timꦗe attacks began with Mir and Fabio Di Giannantonio findi🐲ng time, although not enough to worry the top ten. 

Vinales, who was untouchable in sector four during P1, found time again on hiඣs initial run as he jumped up to third.  

In desperate need of improvements after struggli🥂ng on his first run, Quartararo was again finding it tough on run #2 ౠas he only moved up three places to go 13th. 

A rider who ruled himself out of🦩 top ten contention was Alex Rins, as the American MotoGP winner crashed at turn six.