Looking to back up his impressive♉ FP1 performance, Alex Rins went third fastest as track temperatures rose significantly from the morning.

Not to be outdone, Franco Morbidelli’s reꦆsurgence in Catalunya continued asꦫ he quickly replaced Rins inside the top three. 

While it was expecteꦚd that lap times wouldn’t improve drastically, standout rookie Marco Bezzecchi dismissed that 🔯notion as he went third on combined times. 

A time of 1:40.577s was set by the Ducati rider before Pol Espargaro a🦄lso impr🃏oved his time from FP1.

Down in tenth place, Fabio Quartararo was once again slower than his team-mate to begin FP2, something that hasn't been said abou🐭t the reigning world champion in over a year. 

Although there were only +0.023s between the tw♔o💖 factory Yamaha riders, Morbidelli has failed to get within a couple of tenths of Quartararo all season, so to be faster was very impressive. 

After fitti🀅ng a new medium rear, Aleix Espararo set his best time of the day in order to go secoꦜnd fastest - one tenth behind Rins. 

However, the Aprilia rider wasn’t done there as he came 👍very close to breaking the sub 1m 40s barrier for the first🌞 time this weekend. 

While Espargaro was busy𒁃 resetting the benchmark time (1:40.067s), S🌱tefan Bradl became the first faller (FP2), second of the day after crashing at turn five. 

Bradl’s 🍷crash came at a time when the HRC test rider was setting some very good lap times - closed to within a second of the fastest time before losing the front. 

Not something you see very often, Espargaro’s session-leading effort came courtesy of 🔜setting the fastest time in all four sectors - based off FP2, not the overall leaderboard.

Down in 14th while his team-mate led the way, Joan Mir c♕🌼ut a frustrated figure at running off-track at turn one. 

Mir’s best time was eight tenths slower than Rins went in FP1, a s✤urprise given the two GSR-RR riders have been very close a🐻ll season long. 

After nearly breaking the 1m 40s barrier, Espargaro had to watch team-mate Maverick Vinales do just that after the former Yamaha rider posted a 1♓:39.884s. 

Up by another three tenths on🍨 his next lap around, Vinales lost time in sector four but it wasn’t enough to stop him from improving. The Spaཧniard set a time of 1:39.705s.

Aprilia get the better of Ducati during MotoGP time attacks

As the time attacks began, Ducati finally started showing their true pot🍨ential as Francesco Bagnaia, Eneas Bastianini and Jorge Martin went second, third and fourth respectively. 

There were back-to-ꦫback cancelled laps for Martin and Luca🐻 Marini with just a couple of minutes to go, both for exceeding track limits. 

With Vinales looking set to top FP2, A. Espargaro had one last trick up his sleeve as he produced a stunn𒉰ing time of 1:39.402s - +0.303s faster than anyone. 

Ducati dominated positions 3-7 as only Brad Binder (sixth) managed t🍷o separate the Bologna bullets.