Sachsenring MotoGP: Marc Marquez leads practice from Bradley Smith

Marquez led the way from 10 minutes into the session and worked down to a 1m21.621s with his final lap.

Tech 3 Yamaha rider Smith leapt up into second place with three minutes remaining, following third-placed Andrea Iannone across the line.

The Briton ended up 0.119 seconds adrift of Marquez once the factory Honda man improved at the end.

Jorge Lorenzo took fourth, just three thousandths of a second ahead of Dani Pedrosa.

Aleix Espargaro was sixth on his Suzuki while championship leader Valentino Rossi could not improve upon his first-practice time and was seventh.

Scott Redding was maintaining his earlier form by moving into fourth place with six minutes left, but the Marc VDS Honda rider was eventually bumped down to eighth in front of Yonny Hernandez and Andrea Dovizioso.

A couple of the weekend's replacement riders got into grief, with Marco Melandri's Aprilla successor Michael Laverty ending his session 20 minutes early when he ran off track and could not restart while Hiroshi Aoyama - standing in for Karel Abraham - crashed out at the very end of the session.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	1m21.621s	-	25
2	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	1m21.740s	0.119s	27
3	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	1m21.824s	0.203s	22
4	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m21.886s	0.265s	20
5	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	1m21.889s	0.268s	23
6	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m22.095s	0.474s	20
7	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	1m22.159s	0.538s	25
8	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	1m22.170s	0.549s	25
9	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1m22.196s	0.575s	22
10	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	1m22.340s	0.719s	21
11	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1m22.413s	0.792s	19
12	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	1m22.425s	0.804s	22
13	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	1m22.436s	0.815s	21
14	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	1m22.507s	0.886s	20
15	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	1m22.546s	0.925s	20
16	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	1m23.008s	1.387s	18
17	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	1m23.185s	1.564s	21
18	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	1m23.286s	1.665s	22
19	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	1m23.344s	1.723s	22
20	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	1m23.427s	1.806s	22
21	Alex de Angelis	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	1m23.821s	2.200s	21
22	Hiroshi Aoyama	AB Motoracing	Honda	1m23.925s	2.304s	20
23	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	1m23.952s	2.331s	22
24	Michael Laverty	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	1m24.594s	2.973s	14
25	Claudio Corti	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	1m25.160s	3.539s	21