Misano MotoGP: Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo fastest in Friday practice

After topping the morning session, Marquez quickly bettered his own benchmark early in the second session and later became the first rider to dip below the 1m33s mark.

Lorenzo emerged for the final 10 minutes with new aerodynamic winglets on the front of his Yamaha and immediately used them to great effect to set a time of 1m32.871s, the best ever lap of the Misano circuit.

Marquez had to settle for second, half a tenth behind.

His Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa was the best part of four tenths of a second down in third, responding to a late lap from Ducati's Andrea Dovizioso that had lifted the Italian from outside the top 10 and into the top three.

Championship leader Valentino Rossi was fifth on the other factory Yamaha, while the Tech 3 Yamaha riders Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith were sixth and eighth respectively, split by Silverstone podium finisher Danilo Petrucci.

Michele Pirro was again strong on the third Ducati entry in ninth ahead of Cal Crutchlow, who recovered from an early fall at Turn 10.

Another to go down in the same place later in the session was Ducati's Andrea Iannone, who ended up 13th quickest behind Scott Redding and Aleix Espargaro.

Two other riders crashed: Alex de Angelis had an accident at Turn 2 on his home circuit and Karel Abraham fell heavily at Turn 14 in the final minute of running.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m32.871s	-	19
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m32.924s	0.053s	20
3	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	1m33.258s	0.387s	20
4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m33.291s	0.420s	20
5	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m33.469s	0.598s	23
6	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	1m33.552s	0.681s	22
7	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1m33.553s	0.682s	19
8	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	1m33.595s	0.724s	23
9	Michele Pirro	Ducati	Ducati	1m33.674s	0.803s	15
10	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	1m33.785s	0.914s	18
11	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	1m33.808s	0.937s	20
12	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m33.840s	0.969s	20
13	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	1m34.132s	1.261s	18
14	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m34.215s	1.344s	19
15	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	1m34.345s	1.474s	20
16	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	1m34.500s	1.629s	17
17	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1m34.595s	1.724s	20
18	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	1m34.727s	1.856s	21
19	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	1m34.856s	1.985s	19
20	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1m35.011s	2.140s	16
21	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	1m35.036s	2.165s	20
22	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	1m35.394s	2.523s	18
23	Alex de Angelis	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	1m35.735s	2.864s	16
24	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1m35.853s	2.982s	16
25	Claudio Corti	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	1m36.326s	3.455s	18
26	Karel Abraham	AB Motoracing	Honda	1m36.530s	3.659s	16