Sepang MotoGP: Jorge Lorenzo edges Dani Pedrosa in practice two

Just as in the opening session, Pedrosa had come out on top of an early battle with Honda team-mate Marc Marquez to head the field.

This time there was a final shootout before the end though, and Yamaha rider Lorenzo took charge with four minutes remaining with a 2m00.246s lap.

Marquez followed Lorenzo across the line to go second, but he was pushed down to third by Pedrosa by the flag.

Pedrosa finished up 0.047 seconds down on Lorenzo.

Andrea Iannone crashed his Ducati just seven minutes into the afternoon at Turn 8, but actually spent much of the session sitting second to Pedrosa after emerging on his second bike.

He ended up fourth, within two hundredths of a second of Marquez.

Cal Crutchlow completed a strong Friday on his newly-liveried LCR Honda by taking fifth ahead of Aleix Espargaro and Andrea Dovizioso.

Championship leader Valentino Rossi had to make do with eighth place after pitting late on to have his tyres switched over to his second bike.

He returned to the track with only enough time to complete an out-lap and an in-lap, leaving him a second off the pace.

Danilo Petrucci was ninth, just ahead of Scott Redding.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m00.246s	-	15
2	Dani Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	2m00.293s	0.047s	18
3	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	2m00.472s	0.226s	16
4	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	2m00.486s	0.240s	14
5	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	2m01.039s	0.793s	15
6	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m01.058s	0.812s	15
7	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	2m01.127s	0.881s	14
8	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m01.305s	1.059s	16
9	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m01.598s	1.352s	15
10	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	2m01.607s	1.361s	14
11	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m01.796s	1.550s	15
12	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m01.796s	1.550s	13
13	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m01.850s	1.604s	16
14	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m02.101s	1.855s	19
15	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m02.118s	1.872s	16
16	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	2m02.426s	2.180s	17
17	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	2m02.427s	2.181s	16
18	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m02.554s	2.308s	13
19	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m02.626s	2.380s	16
20	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m03.480s	3.234s	16
21	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	2m03.485s	3.239s	15
22	Toni Elias	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m03.710s	3.464s	15
23	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m03.731s	3.485s	15
24	Anthony West	AB Motoracing	Honda	2m04.892s	4.646s	15
25	Damian Cudlin	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	2m06.962s	6.716s	4