Barcelona MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo fastest Marc Marquez crashes

Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo set the pace in the second Friday practice at Barcelona, as championship leader Marc Marquez was among the fallers in an incident-packed session.

Future Honda team-mates Marquez and Lorenzo had traded the top spot several times in the opening minutes of the session, before Lorenzo finally settled in the top spot with a 1m39.817s effort.

The pair remained the only riders with times below 1m40s for most of the session, until Yamaha's Maverick Vinales fired in a 1m39.652s using fresh softs with five minutes left on the clock.

Vinales was soon surpassed by LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow, who lapped just 0.002 seconds slower than Valentino Rossi's morning-topping effort - before Lorenzo smashed Rossi's weekend benchmark with a 1m38.930s.

He came up a tenth short of improving with his next effort but held on to the top spot anyway, with Suzuki's Andrea Iannone slotting into second, 0.107s off.

Vinales improved to third place, heading Lorenzo's Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, Crutchlow and Pramac Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci.

Tech3 Yamaha's Johann Zarco, who crashed at the Turn 5 left-hander almost immediately at the start of the session, recovered to finish seventh, with his team-mate Hafizh Syahrin ninth, the duo split by works Honda rider Dani Pedrosa.

Avintia Ducati's Tito Rabat was 10th ahead of Rossi, but the Yamaha rider is still on course to automatically progress to Q2 by virtue of his practice one time.

The same cannot be said for Marquez, who dropped to 12th in the session and on combined Friday times having fallen at the long Turn 4 right-hander in the closing minutes of the session.

Other riders to crash were KTM's Pol Espargaro, Suzuki riders Alex Rins, Scott Redding (Aprilia) and Marc VDS Honda rookie Franco Morbidelli.

Mika Kallio led the KTMs in 13th on the prototype RC16, while Aleix Espargaro was the top Aprilia in a lowly 19th, his session punctuated by an on-track quarrel with Aprilia-bound Iannone after the pair ran each other off the road at Turn 1.

FP2 times

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	Ducati	1m38.930s	-	17
2	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m39.037s	0.107s	20
3	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.422s	0.492s	20
4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m39.443s	0.513s	18
5	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	1m39.458s	0.528s	18
6	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m39.619s	0.689s	20
7	Johann Zarco	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.633s	0.703s	18
8	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	1m39.655s	0.725s	21
9	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.782s	0.852s	20
10	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m39.851s	0.921s	21
11	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m39.989s	1.059s	20
12	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m39.990s	1.060s	17
13	Mika Kallio	KTM	KTM	1m40.004s	1.074s	21
14	Alvaro Bautista	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1m40.265s	1.335s	21
15	Bradley Smith	KTM	KTM	1m40.309s	1.379s	18
16	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m40.399s	1.469s	20
17	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1m40.450s	1.520s	20
18	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1m40.508s	1.578s	17
19	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m40.541s	1.611s	17
20	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m40.608s	1.678s	19
21	Xavier Simeon	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m40.697s	1.767s	19
22	Franco Morbidelli	MVDS Honda	Honda	1m40.728s	1.798s	17
23	Scott Redding	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m40.815s	1.885s	18
24	Thomas Luthi	MVDS Honda	Honda	1m40.975s	2.045s	20
25	Sylvain Guintoli	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m41.229s	2.299s	18
26	Karel Abraham	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1m41.361s	2.431s	19