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Dani Pedrosa on top as Jorge Lorenzo falls in second Brno practice

Dani Pedrosa once again edged Jorge Lorenzo to top the second MotoGP practice at Brno, the Honda man setting his fastest time just as Lorenzo fell at Turn 7

The latter, currently 18 points clear of Pedrosa in the championship, had been looking comfortable at the top of the timesheets for much of the session, but 17 minutes from the flag he lost the front of his Yamaha in the Stadium section.

Almost exactly the same time as he scampered over the air fence, Pedrosa set the fastest lap of the session, coming round in 1m56.858s.

Lorenzo eventually returned on his second bike but was unable to improve his time, finishing just five hundredths of a second down on Pedrosa.

As was the case in first practice, Tech 3's Andrea Dovizioso and Cal Crutchlow claimed third and fourth in a session punctuated by several falls.

Gresini's Alvaro Bautista, Aspar's Aleix Espargaro and Avintia's Yonny Hernandez were all casualties, with the latter causing a red flag when he punctured an air fence at Turn 5.

Despite his fall Bautista was still able to claim seventh, narrowly behind LCR Honda's Stefan Bradl and Ducati's Valentino Rossi, both of whom lapped within half a second of the ultimate benchmark.

Ben Spies was another early faller, although he was unharmed and returned to finish eighth fastest ahead of Espargaro and Toni Elias on the satellite Pramac Ducati.

Pos  Rider             Team/Bike                 Time       Gap
 1.  Dani Pedrosa      Honda                     1m56.858s
 2.  Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                    1m56.911s  + 0.053s
 3.  Andrea Dovizioso  Tech 3 Yamaha             1m57.055s  + 0.197s
 4.  Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha             1m57.215s  + 0.357s
 5.  Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda                 1m57.250s  + 0.392s
 6.  Valentino Rossi   Ducati                    1m57.315s  + 0.457s
 7.  Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda             1m57.573s  + 0.715s
 8.  Ben Spies         Yamaha                    1m57.790s  + 0.932s
 9.  Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia             1m59.185s  + 2.327s
10.  Toni Elias        Pramac Ducati             1m59.228s  + 2.370s
11.  Karel Abraham     Cardion Ducati            1m59.251s  + 2.393s
12.  Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia             1m59.498s  + 2.640s
13.  Michele Pirro     Gresini FTR-Honda         1m59.833s  + 2.975s
14.  Yonni Hernandez   AvintiaFTR-Kawasaki       1m59.886s  + 3.028s
15.  Mattia Pasini     Speed Master Aprilia      2m00.258s  + 3.400s
16.  Colin Edwards     Forward Suter-BMW         2m00.296s  + 3.438s
17.  Ivan Silva        Avintia Inmotec-Kawasaki  2m00.773s  + 3.915s
18.  James Ellison     Paul Bird Aprilia         2m01.137s  + 4.279s
19.  Danilo Petrucci   Ioda-Aprilia              2m01.625s  + 4.767s

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