Manuel Gonzalez once again topped the Moto2 timed Friday practice session, with a late fast l🐈ap needed to climb into the top spot on Friday ahea༒d of round eight, the Aragon Grand Prix.

The Liqui Moly Dynavolt Intact GP rider𝔍 had been an early leader in the session, one of several, with Senna Agius, then Dennis Oncu and Diogo Moreira swapping around at the top.

Gonzalez was unfazed and on exiting the pits showed improvement immediately - circulating with Joe Roberts he moved up to third, then took over with a best of 1m 50.548s - a time which stood as the ses⛄sion ended with yellow flags waving.

The lap which took Moreira from tenth to first held on for second for the Italtrans rider - a huge improvement on his morning session where he placed 18th - with fellow Kalex man Dennis Oncu third after a strong opening day aboard the Red Bull KTM Ajo bike.
 

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After circulating with teammate Marcos Ramire♍z, the switch to Gonzalez took American R꧋acing rider Roberts to fourth.

Barry Baltus sawꩲ his best effort propel him from 17th to fifth late on, like Gonzalez his time held firm with no challenge under the yellow flag conditions for the Fantic Racing rider.

Zonta van den Goorbergh was also heading in the right direction - 20th in FP1 the RW Racing rider was a different man in the timed session, and too sa✅w late progress - moving from 22nd to third, with his time only being pushed back a little, endi♓ng Friday sixth quickest.

Jake Dixon was briefly second before a flurry of laps dropped him to seventh, the Elf Marc VDS rider was once again the best Boscoscuro rider, well ahead of te🃏ammate ♛Filip Salac in 16th and the only rider using the chassis to make the Q2 cut.

Silverstone winner Agꦕius was competitive on the second Dynavolt bike but found himself shuffled back to eighth, with top rookie Daniel Holgado ninth - his Aspar teammate David Alonso crashed twice in the sessio🍸n, leaving him 13th, but still fast enough to go directly into Q2.

Ramirez completed the top ten and will be joined in Q2 by Aron Canet who was only just over ha♏lf a second of꧃f the lead time in eleventh for Fantic, Albert Arenas who was twelfth quickest for Gresini and Alonso.

T♍he final spot went to Daniel Munoz, who was off of Forward machinery an instantly faster on his new ride in Aragon - the Red Bull KTM Ajo bike, replacing the injured Collin Veijer, finishing FP1 in ninth and 14th in the timed practice session.

Celestino Vietti just missed out in 1𝄹5th, the next best Boscoscuro rider for Beta Tools SpeedRS.

Q1 will be loaded with riders looking to progress, with Salac,🦄 Alonso Lopez and Tony Arbolino ಞalso among the riders not to directly progress.

Alex Escrig was the be𓂃st of the 🏅Forward riders in 22nd.

Darryn Binder looks set to have a♔ weekend to forget - finishing practice 25th , the South African still has a penalty hanging over from France where he crashed into van den Goorbergh in FP1 - so will need a trip around the long lap loop come race day.

The first session saw Oncu top the timesheets, with a huge finꦏal sector that proved unbeatable, leaving Gonzalez second. Alonso was the top rookie in third -well ahead of his fellow British GP podium visitors, with Agius sixth and Moreira 18th, with both improving in the later timed session.

Ja⛎ke Dixon was the top Boscoscuro in seventh, but looked frustrated and animated as he searched for improvements with his Elf Marc VDS mechanics.

Ther𒈔e was only one crash in the🎉 first session of the day - for Jorge Navarro.

Nakarin Atiratphuvapat makes a return to the championship to replace Mario Aji at Idemitsu Honda Team Asia. The Thai riders entry meant there was a rider from that country in every class for the first time, and although last in both sessions showed huge improvements in time knocking around two seconds off his lap by the afternoon.