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Phillip Island MotoGP: Vinales leads FP2, Quartararo sidelined

Maverick Vinales dominated the Friday afternoon MotoGP session at the Australian Grand Prix, while fellow Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo missed the session following his heavy FP1 crash

The Petronas SRT rider was flicked from his M1 late on in a wet first session from Phillip Island at the Turn 6 left-hander at Siberia and suffered a hematoma in his left ankle.

While declared fit to continue, SRT opted to bench Quartararo for the afternoon session, which will resign him to Q1 if grim weather forecasts for Saturday are to be believed.

After setting the pace in the wet FP1, Vinales was also on top for the majority of FP2, with Honda's Marc Marquez only leading early on, and briefly in the middle of the session.

Vinales built a sizeable lead with a 1m29.195s with 17 minutes left on the clock, a time he was able to improve on twice more to end up with a 1m28.824s.

Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso moved up to second with a time set after the chequered flag fell, but his deficit to the Yamaha man was 0.496s.

LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow took third ahead of Danilo Petrucci and Jack Miller (Pramac) as three Ducatis made it into the top five.

Marquez had to settle for sixth after an overtake at Turn 11 on team-mate Jorge Lorenzo on his final lap resulted in the two Repsol Hondas making slight contact, and a piece flying off of one of the RC213Vs.

He still narrowly beat the sister works Yamaha of Valentino Rossi, who was seventh, followed by Suzuki's Alex Rins, SRT's Franco Morbidelli and the Aprilia of Aleix Espargaro.

LCR stand-in Johann Zarco ended his first dry session on a Honda in 15th, 1.617s off the pace, but nearly two tenths faster than Lorenzo, who was 16th.

Two riders, Pol Espargaro (KTM) and Francesco Bagnaia (Pramac), crashed at the end of the session at the Hayshed right-hander and the long left of the Southern Loop in the closing stages.

Pos Rider Team Bike Time Gap Laps
1 Maverick Vinales Yamaha Yamaha 1m28.824s - 25
2 Andrea Dovizioso Ducati Ducati 1m29.320s 0.496s 22
3 Cal Crutchlow LCR Honda Honda 1m29.325s 0.501s 22
4 Danilo Petrucci Ducati Ducati 1m29.327s 0.503s 20
5 Jack Miller Pramac Ducati Ducati 1m29.344s 0.520s 20
6 Marc Marquez Honda Honda 1m29.421s 0.597s 19
7 Valentino Rossi Yamaha Yamaha 1m29.436s 0.612s 21
8 Alex Rins Suzuki Suzuki 1m29.472s 0.648s 21
9 Franco Morbidelli Petronas Yamaha Yamaha 1m29.718s 0.894s 21
10 Aleix Espargaro Aprilia Aprilia 1m29.791s 0.967s 18
11 Joan Mir Suzuki Suzuki 1m29.875s 1.051s 24
12 Karel Abraham Avintia Ducati Ducati 1m29.997s 1.173s 20
13 Andrea Iannone Aprilia Aprilia 1m30.170s 1.346s 18
14 Francesco Bagnaia Pramac Ducati Ducati 1m30.426s 1.602s 17
15 Johann Zarco LCR Honda Honda 1m30.441s 1.617s 21
16 Jorge Lorenzo Honda Honda 1m30.706s 1.882s 19
17 Pol Espargaro KTM KTM 1m30.859s 2.035s 17
18 Mika Kallio KTM KTM 1m30.865s 2.041s 21
19 Hafizh Syahrin Tech3 KTM KTM 1m30.940s 2.116s 21
20 Miguel Oliveira Tech3 KTM KTM 1m31.404s 2.580s 21
21 Tito Rabat Avintia Ducati Ducati 1m31.459s 2.635s 22

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