Followiജng a strong Free Practice 1, MotoGP rookie Pedro Acosta made another lightning start to practice 2 as he settled into P2 behind champiꦺonship leader Jorge Martin.

Enea Bastianini, winner at COTA on his last visit to the American circ🐻uit in 2022, then made it a Ducati 1-2 as he went second.

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Fastest in FP1, Maverick Vinales continued his impressive turn of pace as he soon went seco🌞nd. Vinales was the only rider able to get within a tenth of Martin’s time of 2:03.036s.

‘King of 🎶COTA’, Marc Marquez made another slow start to second practice before moving up to 3rd place with just over half the sessi🅷on remaining.

Vinales t🎐hen improved after fitting a new soft rear tyre, becoming the first rider to set a sub 2m 3s lap time this weekend.

However, Martin fought st💖🔯raight back as he went -0.095s clear of the factory Aprilia rider.

After moving into the t🙈op ten, Fabio Di Giannantonio made a mess of his next flying lapꦍ as he ran off circuit at turn 12.

As the time attacks got underway with just under 18 minutes to go, Vinales 🍸was one of the first riders to threaten the fastest💃 time set by Martin.

Close throu🐻gh the first th🅠ree sectors, Vinales pulled out over four tenths on Martin in the final sector to go quickest.

Marc Marquez and Franco Morbidelli 🦄joined Vinales in finding a lot of time on their previous best, however, a new lap record was set when Martin obliterated the all-time lap record by half a second.

Martin set a 2:01.397 which was six𒁏 tenths clear of Aleix Espargaro who moved up the order, as did Di Giannantonio.

To start the final time attack run, world champion Bagnaia had a long queue of riders behind him as they looked to take advanta🐲ge of the Italian𝄹 needing a big lap.

Bagnaia did ꩲexactly what he needed to as he moved into the top ten, while Vinales narroꦇwly missed out on top spot