After securing a 1-2 finish in FP1, the all-important second practice of the day saw Miguel Oliveira c🅷ontinue Aprilia's good start to the Catalan MotoGP by going fastest.

Right behind ꧑the Portuguese rider was Maverick Vinalﷺes, who was second quickest in the morning session.

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A dismal morning for Honda didn’t get any better🍸 at the start of the afternoon as Takaaki Nakagami jumped off his RC213V with a technical is༺sue at turn 12.

U✃nlike FP1 when Espargaro and Vinales were untouchable at the head ꧂of the field, Oliveira’s top time was under threat from both Vinales and Brad Binder, as the pair were under a tenth off the RNF rider.

Marco Bezzecchi was also ꦆnot far off the pace as he sat in fourth ahead of Johann Zarco.

With his three closest tital rivals all in the top ten, world champion Francesco Bagnaia was having to p♛lay catch up as he was only 20🎃th with 20 minutes gone. 

A name that hasn’t spent much time atop a MotoGP lead▨erboard is Fabio Di Giannantonio, who went fastest by just under two tenths. 

Di Giannantonio then continued his impressive run 🍰by setting another lap in the low 1m 40🍸s barrier.

Continuing to languish down the order, a new medium rear tyre helped Bagnaia f▨ind significant improvements as he jumped up from 20th to first.

After being caugh🥂t 𒐪up behind Marc Marquez, Bagnaia was then set to improve his top time before catching Binder at the final corner. 

Just as Vinale𓃲s saved a huge highside on the 👍exit of turn 13, Raul Fernandez was not able to avoid a crash as he went down at turn 12.

With a soft rear fitted, VInales reco🔯vered from his big moment to go fastest with a time of 1:40.095s.

Johann Zarco was next to trouble the top time as a soft-so🐼ft combination helped the Frenchman overhaul Vinales. Zarco then found more time on his next effort but was unable to break into the 1m 39s barrier.

Top spot continued to chanꦚge during the closing stages a📖s Di Giannantonio went quickest by four tenths before both factory Aprilia riders went faster. Espargaro set a time of 1:39.389s to go two tenths clear of Vinales. 

Set for P2 after three sectors,꧅ Zarco produced a stunning final sector to gain over two tenths over Espargaro. 

Zarco’s time wasnꦺ’t enough to hold off the Aprilia duo as Vinales went quickest before a new lap record was set by Espargaro.