Jorge Martin was fastest by seven tenths in FP1, but at the start of Practice 2 is was the Ducati of ♎Fabio Di Giannantonio that led the way.

Off the back of his best finish in MotoGP at Mandalikဣa, Di Giannantonio was quickest from the factory KTM duo of Jack Miller🦄 and Brad Binder, before the latter went fastest with a time of 1:29.744s.

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Binder and Mi😼ller were then separated by Pol Espargaro, making it an 🀅all-KTM top three. 

Binder then improved again as he set a 1:29.365s as Marco Bezzecchi🐷 split the KTM’s by moving up to P2.

The top Honda rider in 11th, Marc Marquez suffered his 25th fall of the season after a🧜 slow crash at turn ten.

Marquez nearly produced another one of his miracl🤡e saves, but after failing to do so, re-starting the bike was proving problomatic. 

Fastest in the first three sectors, Maverick Vinales went very close to topping Binder’s time, however, a very small mistake coming out of the final corner saw him lose close to 🐼three tenths.

After challenging oꦐn his next lap around, Vinales improved again on his third flying lap on the new soft rear tyre. 

One of the💞 next riders to make a significant improvement was Fabio Quartararo, as the Mandalika podium finisher went third fastest on his first time attack 💎run. 

Top🍸 spot eventually changed hands as Di Giannantonio went quickest by just -0.006s, however, the Italian was quickly bumped down to second by Johann 🍌Zarco. 

Aleix Espargaro then de♔stroyed Zarco’s top time after going four tenths clear and setting the first sub 1m 29s lap of the weekend. 

But Esparg🌊aro’s t🌃eam-mate Vinales was determined to go quickest, which he did on the first lap of his second time attack stint. 

Vinales set🤡 a time of 1:28.649s in order to better Espargaro’s lap by half a tenth. 

Like Espargaro, Vinales spent very little time at the head of the leaderboard as Martin showed stunning speed once again.&nbs🎃p;

Despite finding improvements, Bagnaia was still struggling as✅ he could only move up from 19th to 14th.

Sector two and three were proving ver🦋y challenging and where he lost huge amounts of time to title rival Martin. 

🅰Further improvements came during the fina🍒l run as Vinales momentarily went top before a sub 1m 28s lap was set by Binder.