Vinales pips Quartararo by 0.057s in Misano MotoGP FP2 - autosport.com

Maverick Vinales narrowly led fellow Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo in the second MotoGP free practice session for the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano.

Vinales and Quartararo ended up over three tenths clear of Honda's Marc Marquez, who had led most of the session before being surpassed by the Yamahas late on.

Marquez ran in Vinales' wheel tracks in the opening minutes of the session to log a 1m33.171s, which was just two hundredths off Quartararo's FP1-topping effort.

The championship leader had run a new soft tyre, and thus held a nearly half-second lead over nearest rival Vinales until those behind him equipped fresh rubber for the closing runs of FP2.

First, Valentino Rossi closed to within three tenths of Marquez, before the other works Yamaha of Vinales recorded the first sub-1m33s attempt of the weekend.

This 1m32.775s was two tenths quicker than Quartararo's first push lap on the soft rear tyre, and though the Petronas SRT rookie improved again at the chequered flag, he came up 0.057s short of toppling Vinales.

With the top three made up of the same riders as the morning, Rossi was best of the rest in fourth, albeit seven tenths off the pace.

Quartararo's SRT team-mate Franco Morbidelli made it four Yamahas in the top five, while Pol Espargaro led KTM's charge in sixth place.

The two factory Ducatis of Danilo Petrucci and Andrea Dovizioso were seventh and eighth respectively, ahead of Suzuki's Alex Rins and LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow.

However, Rins and Crutchlow are currently on course to miss out on automatic spots in Q2, with Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia) and Michele Pirro (Ducati) within the combined classification top 10 instead on the strength of their FP1 laps.

Marquez's Honda teammate Jorge Lorenzo produced an improved showing compared to the morning, but remains in 17th place - with the top 21 split by 1.6 seconds.

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.775s	-	21
2	Fabio Quartararo	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.832s	0.057s	19
3	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m33.171s	0.396s	22
4	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m33.470s	0.695s	21
5	Franco Morbidelli	Petronas Yamaha	Yamaha	1m33.524s	0.749s	20
6	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1m33.624s	0.849s	19
7	Danilo Petrucci	Ducati	Ducati	1m33.728s	0.953s	18
8	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m33.826s	1.051s	21
9	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m33.874s	1.099s	23
10	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	1m33.907s	1.132s	19
11	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m33.950s	1.175s	17
12	Johann Zarco	KTM	KTM	1m33.956s	1.181s	18
13	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1m33.998s	1.223s	19
14	Francesco Bagnaia	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m34.003s	1.228s	17
15	Michele Pirro	Ducati	Ducati	1m34.062s	1.287s	17
16	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m34.070s	1.295s	16
17	Jorge Lorenzo	Honda	Honda	1m34.139s	1.364s	19
18	Tito Rabat	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m34.206s	1.431s	19
19	Joan Mir	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m34.229s	1.454s	17
20	Miguel Oliveira	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m34.362s	1.587s	19
21	Andrea Iannone	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m34.381s	1.606s	20
22	Karel Abraham	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m34.843s	2.068s	15
23	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 KTM	KTM	1m34.935s	2.160s	18