MotoGP British GP: Quartararo leads FP2 from Mir and Vinales

The Yamaha rider spent much of the 45-minute session practicing runs with the long lap loop ahead of the penalty he will serve on Sunday.

His first attempt, a 2m00.794s, put him into third place, behind the Aprilias of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro.

He fell down the timesheets as others improved while he worked on improving his time around the long lap loop.

His fifth attempt returned him to the top three, a 1m59.933s, before a last-minute lap took him to the top of the timesheet as the only rider to set a sub-1m58s time with a 1m58.946s.

Suzuki’s Mir finished second, less than 0.1s behind the championship leader, with Vinales in third with a 1m59.123s.

Miguel Oliveira topped the times early on in the session, the KTM man setting a 2m00.863s in the opening laps.

Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco continued his quick pace from FP1, setting a 2m01.219s to slot in behind Oliveira.

Johann Zarco, Pramac Racing (Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images)

The yellow flags were waved briefly as Darryn Binder went off at Turn 6, having lost the rear of his RNF Yamaha.

Jorge Martin was next to head into the top two, a 2m00.873s quick enough to demote team-mate Zarco.

The Aprilia pair were next to go quickest, Vinales leading Espargaro with a 2m00.484s, as Quartararo slotted into third.

Oliveira briefly went top next before VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi, who took his maiden podium last time out in Assen with a second-place finish, toppled him with a 2m00.204s.

With 10 minutes of the session complete the times began to tumble, with Alex Rins next to lead for Suzuki before the Aprilias returned to the top, despite Espargaro struggling with the rear into Copse.

Rins went quickest on his 10th tour, a 1m59.351s quick enough to put him top, before Ducati’s Jack Miller split the Aprilias in third.

Soon after, Miller went down at Stowe prompting yellow flags while his factory bike was recovered from the gravel.

Rins further improved several laps later, pushing him 0.4s ahead of Espargaro at the top of the combined standings, as team-mate Mir slotted into second with a 1m59.536s, before Espargaro also improved with a 1m59.426s.

But the Suzuki man improved again the following lap, a 1m59.100s enough to lead until Quartararo’s last ditch attempt. Zarco finished in fourth, with Espargaro and Oliveira in fifth and sixth respectively.

Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini finished the session in eighth having trialled a radical new rear aero package, also seen on Martin’s bike, while Miller and Bezzecchi rounded off the top 10.

MotoGP British GP - FP2 results

Cla	Rider		Bike	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval
1	Fabio Quartararo		Yamaha	15	1'58.946
2	Joan Mir		Suzuki	16	1'59.100	0.154	0.154
3	Maverick Viñales		Aprilia	15	1'59.123	0.177	0.023
4	Johann Zarco		Ducati	15	1'59.134	0.188	0.011
5	Aleix Espargaro		Aprilia	15	1'59.153	0.207	0.019
6	Miguel Oliveira		KTM	15	1'59.163	0.217	0.010
7	Alex Rins		Suzuki	18	1'59.246	0.300	0.083
8	Enea Bastianini		Ducati	16	1'59.358	0.412	0.112
9	Jack Miller		Ducati	14	1'59.364	0.418	0.006
10	Marco Bezzecchi		Ducati	17	1'59.378	0.432	0.014
11	Francesco Bagnaia		Ducati	15	1'59.385	0.439	0.007
12	Luca Marini		Ducati	16	1'59.396	0.450	0.011
13	Jorge Martin		Ducati	16	1'59.657	0.711	0.261
14	Alex Marquez		Honda	16	1'59.789	0.843	0.132
15	Stefan Bradl		Honda	16	1'59.801	0.855	0.012
16	Pol Espargaro		Honda	14	1'59.852	0.906	0.051
17	Fabio Di Giannantonio		Ducati	16	1'59.986	1.040	0.134
18	Takaaki Nakagami		Honda	16	2'00.003	1.057	0.017
19	Andrea Dovizioso		Yamaha	16	2'00.043	1.097	0.040
20	Franco Morbidelli		Yamaha	17	2'00.138	1.192	0.095
21	Brad Binder		KTM	10	2'00.144	1.198	0.006
22	Remy Gardner		KTM	15	2'00.154	1.208	0.010
23	Darryn Binder		Yamaha	10	2'01.528	2.582	1.374
24	Raúl Fernández		KTM	11	2'02.062	3.116	0.534
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