MotoGP Valencia: Lorenzo tops FP2 as Marquez suffers late crash

Ducati's Jorge Lorenzo was fastest in the second practice session for MotoGP's Valencia season finale, which ended with title favourite Marc Marquez crashing.

Honda rider Marquez, who was vying with Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa to top the opening day of practice, fell at Turn 2 just as the chequered flag fell.

Marquez was OK, having stood up immediately after the incident, with his bike appearing to escape any significant damage.

He had been second, narrowly behind Pedrosa and just ahead of Lorenzo, for the majority of the session before jumping into the lead with 14 minutes left on the clock.

Lorenzo outpaced Pedrosa by a small margin and then improved by another half a second in the closing minutes to end up on a 1m30.640s.

Pedrosa ended up in second place, just 0.122s slower as the lead Honda, while a late improvement from Marquez's title challenger Andrea Dovizioso put the Italian third, ahead of Tech3's Johann Zarco, the top Yamaha.

Marquez slipped to fifth, ahead of the satellite Hondas of Jack Miller (Marc VDS) and Cal Crutchlow (LCR), while Michele Pirro brought the third factory Ducati into the top eight.

The top 10 was completed by Valentino Rossi on the best of the factory Yamahas and Pol Espargaro's KTM.

Rossi, along with team-mate Maverick Vinales, who was 11th in FP2, will need to improve in Saturday morning's session to be sure of a Q2 slot, as they are only 11th and 12th in the combined order.

Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone suffered a late crash in the session and was only 18th - though his FP1 time still grants him a spot in Q2 - and Aleix and Pol Espargaro also had late incidents.

Tech 3 Yamaha's Michael van der Mark was last again, 2.4s off the pace.

FP2 times

Pos	Rider	Team	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1m30.640s	18
2	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	0.122s	23
3	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	0.309s	20
4	Johann Zarco	Tech3 Yamaha	0.414s	22
5	Marc Marquez	Honda	0.603s	20
6	Jack Miller	MVDS Honda	0.717s	19
7	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	0.743s	20
8	Michele Pirro	Ducati	0.773s	20
9	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	0.848s	22
10	Pol Espargaro	KTM	0.975s	18
11	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	0.984s	21
12	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1.058s	16
13	Scott Redding	Pramac Ducati	1.093s	18
14	Karel Abraham	Aspar Ducati	1.218s	20
15	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1.236s	21
16	Hector Barbera	Avintia Ducati	1.286s	18
17	Tito Rabat	MVDS Honda	1.318s	24
18	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1.326s	16
19	Mika Kallio	KTM	1.326s	20
20	Alvaro Bautista	Aspar Ducati	1.436s	19
21	Loris Baz	Avintia Ducati	1.511s	20
22	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Ducati	1.552s	20
23	Bradley Smith	KTM	1.817s	21
24	Sam Lowes	Aprilia	1.947s	19
25	Michael van der Mark	Tech3 Yamaha	2.461s	24