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MotoGP Catalunya: Rossi tops second Barcelona practice

Valentino Rossi topped the second MotoGP practice session at Barcelona, edging out Yamaha team-mate Jorge Lorenzo

Lorenzo, who led the way in the first session in the morning, set the pace for the majority of the afternoon.

The Spaniard was able to move to the top of the pile every time he crossed the line on his first run, as he and several others vied for position in the early minutes.

As the session settled down Lorenzo seemed comfortable out front, but he was pushed back to second by Rossi when the Italian switched to a soft rear tyre for his final run.

Lorenzo appeared set to respond as the chequered flag came out by going fastest of anyone through the first sector, but he abandoned that lap and toured back to the pits.

The only other significant improvement in the closing stages came from Cal Crutchlow, who went fifth fastest to push Honda rookie Marc Marquez back to sixth.

Behind the factory Yamahas at the front, Dani Pedrosa was best of the rest for Honda, while Alvaro Bautista capped off a session where he was a regular factor at the front by going fourth quickest.

There were two fallers during the 45 minutes. Stefan Bradl had a low-speed crash at Turn 10 early on, and he was able to get back out in the closing stages only to have a fast final lap ruined by traffic.

Bradley Smith was the other rider to crash. While his shunt was not picked up by TV cameras, the fact that he was limping away from the bike afterwards suggested it was a bigger incident than Bradl's.

Pos Rider             Team/Bike              Time       Gap       Laps
 1. Valentino Rossi   Yamaha                 1m42.297s             19
 2. Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                 1m42.346s  + 0.049s   18
 3. Dani Pedrosa      Honda                  1m42.557s  + 0.260s   17
 4. Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda          1m42.752s  + 0.455s   18
 5. Cal Crutchlow     Tech 3 Yamaha          1m42.776s  + 0.479s   19
 6. Marc Marquez      Honda                  1m42.857s  + 0.560s   18
 7. Nicky Hayden      Ducati                 1m42.890s  + 0.593s   20
 8. Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati                 1m42.988s  + 0.691s   16
 9. Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda              1m43.005s  + 0.708s   16
10. Aleix Espargaro   Aspar Aprilia          1m43.204s  + 0.907s   17
11. Andrea Iannone    Pramac Ducati          1m43.272s  + 0.975s   18
12. Randy de Puniet   Aspar Aprilia          1m43.644s  + 1.347s   17
13. Michele Pirro     Ducati                 1m43.648s  + 1.351s   19
14. Bradley Smith     Tech 3 Yamaha          1m44.247s  + 1.950s   11
15. Hector Barbera    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki   1m44.461s  + 2.164s   17
16. Colin Edwards     Forward FTR-Kawasaki   1m44.586s  + 2.289s   17
17. Karel Abraham     Cardion Aprilia        1m44.599s  + 2.302s   17
18. Danilo Petrucci   Ioda-Suter-BMW         1m44.609s  + 2.312s   20
19. Michael Laverty   PBM-Aprilia            1m45.337s  + 3.040s   19
20. Claudio Corti     Forward FTR-Kawasaki   1m45.513s  + 3.216s   18
21. Hiroshi Aoyama    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki   1m45.834s  + 3.537s   19
22. Yonny Hernandez   PBM Aprilia            1m46.216s  + 3.919s   9
23. Bryan Staring     Gresini FTR-Honda      1m46.577s  + 4.280s   19
24. Lukas Pesek       Ioda-Suter-BMW         1m47.239s  + 4.942s   17

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