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Argentina MotoGP: Marc Marquez leads Honda one-two in practice

MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez moved to the top of the times in second practice at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit in Argentina

The Honda rider improved on his morning time by over six seconds, stopping the clock at 1m39.313s to finish over a second ahead of his closest rival.

Team-mate Dani Pedrosa finished second, ahead of the Aleix Espargaro, again the quickest of the Open class riders on the Forward bike.

LCR Honda's Stefan Bradl, one of the few men with previous experience of the track, was fourth ahead of Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso.

Practice one pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo finished down in ninth position, behind team-mate Valentino Rossi, the only current rider to have won a race in Argentina.

The times tumbled right away as the track conditions continued to improve, with Marquez beating the morning's benchmark by over two seconds with his second flying lap of the session.

Marquez went even quicker after the 45-minute session had reached the halfway mark, at which point the Spaniard was nearly a second clear of the field before Dovizioso improved and jumped to second on his return to action following early problems.

Dovizioso suffered an apparent engine blow-up less than 10 minutes into the session, his Ducati coming to a stop amid a big puff of smoke.

Marquez increased his lead with four minutes remaining, becoming the first man to lap in the 1m39s after a massive one-second improvement.

Andrea Iannone also had drama early on after losing control of his bike under braking at Turn 5.

The Pramac Ducati rider, who seemed to overshoot his braking point, walked away from the crash, but his bike was badly damaged. He would return to action later in the session.

Pos Rider             Team                   Time       Gap      Laps  
 1. Marc Marquez      Honda                  1m39.313s            18   
 2. Dani Pedrosa      Honda                  1m40.396s  +1.083s   18   
 3. Aleix Espargaro   Forward Yamaha         1m40.566s  +1.253s   16   
 4. Stefan Bradl      LCR Honda              1m40.891s  +1.578s   20   
 5. Andrea Dovizioso  Ducati                 1m41.042s  +1.729s   11   
 6. Bradley Smith     Tech 3 Yamaha          1m41.303s  +1.990s   20   
 7. Pol Espargaro     Tech 3 Yamaha          1m41.368s  +2.055s   19   
 8. Valentino Rossi   Yamaha                 1m41.395s  +2.082s   21   
 9. Jorge Lorenzo     Yamaha                 1m41.533s  +2.220s   18   
10. Andrea Iannone    Pramac Ducati          1m41.924s  +2.611s   13   
11. Alvaro Bautista   Gresini Honda          1m42.029s  +2.716s   20   
12. Yonny Hernandez   Pramac Ducati          1m42.128s  +2.815s   16   
13. Karel Abraham     Cardion Honda          1m42.348s  +3.035s   18   
14. Colin Edwards     Forward Yamaha         1m42.608s  +3.295s   19   
15. Nicky Hayden      Aspar Honda            1m42.621s  +3.308s   18   
16. Hector Barbera    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki   1m42.739s  +3.426s   16   
17. Broc Parkes       PBM Aprilia            1m42.827s  +3.514s   14   
18. Michele Pirro     Ducati                 1m42.898s  +3.585s   17   
19. Danilo Petrucci   Ioda Aprilia           1m43.106s  +3.793s   18   
20. Mike di Meglio    Avintia FTR-Kawasaki   1m43.125s  +3.812s   14   
21. Michael Laverty   PBM Aprilia            1m43.151s  +3.838s   17   
22. Scott Redding     Gresini Honda          1m43.165s  +3.852s   16   
23. Hiroshi Aoyama    Aspar Honda            1m43.347s  +4.034s   18   
                                                                       

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