Emilia-Romagna MotoGP: Miller dominates FP2, Marquez, Quartararo miss top ten

Jack Miller dominates day-one at the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP, while Joan Mir, Marc Marquez and championship leader Fabio Quartararo all missed out on the top ten.
Jack Miller, MotoGP, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 22 October 2021
Jack Miller, MotoGP, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 22 October 2021
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Jack Miller ended day-one of the 🧸Emilia-Romagna MotoGP fastest from fellow Ducati rider Johann Zarco after thoroughly ꦐdominating FP2. 

While track conditions remained less than ideal for the start of this afternoon’s session, riders were greeted by blue skies and a rapidly drying track as♔ Miller and Miguel Oliveira quickly jumped up the order. 

Miller w🔜ent second on just his third flying lap, before bettering Johann Zarco’s FP1 time a lap later by over eight tenths. 

Francesco Bagnaia then made it a Ducati 1-2-3 by going third, while Marc Marquez 💮- finished second this morning - sat fourth overall. 

Iker Lecuona then split the Bologna bu🐻llet📖s by going third overall, while Fabio Quartararo made significant gains. 

The championship ♎leader only managed 18th in this morning’s session, however, the Yamaha rider was regularly inside the top ten to begin the session. 

Quartararo’s best effort put him seventh early, which was moments before a ꧙near-crash at turn four. 

Another rider who struggled in FP1 was current MotoGP world champion Joan Mir, but just like Quartararo, the Suzu𝐆ki rider made his way up th🍌e order with sixth. 

Pol Espargaro, who was two seconds off the pace throughout FP2, bec꧟ame the first and only rider to crash in the session - turn 13. 

Bagnaia nearly went do꧟wn for the༺ second time today after braking on the curb heading towards turn four. The Italian rider’s Ducati momentarily locked the front which caused him to run off track. 

After struggling for much of the day, Aleix Espargaro put his Aprilia into third overall as th🍬e chequered flag came out. Espargaro was joined by former full-time team-mate Lorenzo Savadori - finished seventh. 

While the to♊p two of Miller and Zarco remained unchanged, several big names missed out on a top ten including Mir, Marquez and Quartararo. 

Behind the top three were KTM riders Lecuona and Oliveira, while an impressive Luca Marini was sixth. Bagnaia finished🍷 eighth, Danilo Petrucci was ninth and Jorge Martin tenth.

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