Vinales leads Quartararo in Assen MotoGP FP2

Andrea Dovizioso led most of the session with a 1m33.223s on the Ducati, before the majority of the field fitted fresh tyres for a time attack in the closing stages, with Vinales proving the fastest.

Marc Marquez set the initial pace in the afternoon session with a 1m33.945s on the Honda, which he immediately bettered with a 1m33.835s.

Andrea Iannone held a shock lead briefly in the session after following Marquez for a fast lap, but was soon deposed by Dovizioso.

Vinales went four tenths faster than the Ducati rider's long-standing benchmark with a 1m32.940s lap, before managing another big improvement with 1m32.638s, coming up just short of Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi's lap record set in 2015.

FP1 pacesetter Fabio Quartararo again completed a Yamaha one-two on the Petronas SRT M1, going 0.180s slower than Vinales, with Danilo Petrucci completing the same top three to end the session as top Ducati runner.

Petrucci was followed by his team-mate Dovizioso, Suzuki's Alex Rins completing the top five ahead of Iannone - who crashed in the dying stages while on a hot lap.

Iannone still outpaced Marquez, who was followed by the sister Suzuki of Joan Mir, a late-improving Rossi and LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow.

Rossi had spent much of Friday outside of the provisional Q2 places, having ended FP1 12th, but jumped up to ninth in the closing stages with a 1m33.517s lap.

KTM had a low-key session, with its quickest rider Pol Espargaro only taking 15th and Johann Zarco crashing at Turn 7 on his way to 17th on the timesheets.

Following his crash at the Ruskenhoek left-hander of Turn 7 in FP1, Honda's Jorge Lorenzo was forced to sit out FP2 while he underwent scans in hospital, and will miss the remainder of the Assen weekend.