Misano MotoGP: Dovizioso and Lorenzo one-two for Ducati on Friday

Rossi and Marc Marquez had both ended morning practice outside the top 10, and with rain potentially arriving for both second and third practice they were at risk of missing out on making Q2 automatically.

But conditions stayed dry during the 45-minute Friday afternoon session, and it took Marquez two flying laps to beat Dovizioso's earlier benchmark and lead with a 1m32.537s.

Only Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro set a comparable laptime for most of the session, but he was also nearly half a second off the pace.

Marquez stayed on top until the final two minutes when he was finally demoted by first Lorenzo and then Dovizioso.

Dovizioso ended the session with a 1m32.198s, with Lorenzo completing a Ducati one-two.

Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) was narrowly pushed into third by Lorenzo, with Maverick Vinales leading Yamaha's efforts in fourth.

Works Honda rider Marquez did not improve in the end and dropped to fifth ahead of Danilo Petrucci and Alex Rins.

Like Marquez, Rossi also recovered to end the day within the top 10, but his place was in doubt until the dying stages as he was held up by Karel Abraham during one of his late laps.

But the local hero managed to improve to eighth ahead of his protege Franco Morbidelli and Johann Zarco.

Despite taking 10th, Zarco is not currently set to make it to Q2 automatically as Andrea Iannone's practice one time puts him eighth overall.

Iannone was only 16th in second practice as he was one of three riders to crash at the Turn 15 left-hander, alongside Scott Redding and Takaaki Nakagami.

Hafizh Syahrin and Jack Miller also suffered their second falls in as many sessions.

KTM's Pol Espargaro, returning from injury, languished down in 24th, only beating Syahrin and MotoGP debutant Christophe Ponsson - who cut his first practice deficit by one-and-a-half seconds and was 5.9s off the pace, putting himself within the 107% limit.

FP2 times

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m32.198s	-	21
2	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	Ducati	1m32.358s	0.160s	18
3	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	Honda	1m32.385s	0.187s	19
4	Maverick Vinales	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.411s	0.213s	21
5	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m32.537s	0.339s	22
6	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m32.722s	0.524s	21
7	Alex Rins	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m32.775s	0.577s	22
8	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.786s	0.588s	21
9	Franco Morbidelli	MVDS Honda	Honda	1m32.980s	0.782s	19
10	Johann Zarco	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.985s	0.787s	21
11	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	1m32.999s	0.801s	22
12	Michele Pirro	Ducati	Ducati	1m33.005s	0.807s	17
13	Alvaro Bautista	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1m33.183s	0.985s	22
14	Jack Miller	Pramac Ducati	Ducati	1m33.193s	0.995s	18
15	Takaaki Nakagami	LCR Honda	Honda	1m33.274s	1.076s	19
16	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m33.423s	1.225s	19
17	Scott Redding	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m33.517s	1.319s	16
18	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	Aprilia	1m33.654s	1.456s	21
19	Stefan Bradl	Honda	Honda	1m33.660s	1.462s	21
20	Bradley Smith	KTM	KTM	1m33.815s	1.617s	19
21	Karel Abraham	Aspar Ducati	Ducati	1m33.878s	1.680s	21
22	Xavier Simeon	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m33.896s	1.698s	19
23	Thomas Luthi	MVDS Honda	Honda	1m34.278s	2.080s	21
24	Pol Espargaro	KTM	KTM	1m34.461s	2.263s	18
25	Hafizh Syahrin	Tech3 Yamaha	Yamaha	1m34.539s	2.341s	16
26	Christophe Ponsson	Avintia Ducati	Ducati	1m38.154s	5.956s	22