Manuel Gonzalez once again topped the Moto2 timed Friday practi🦩ce session, with a late fast lap needed to climb into the top spot on Friday ahead of round eight, the Aragon Grand Prix.

The Liqui Mo🐟ly Dynavolt Intact GP rider 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 b🎶est of 1m 50.548s - a time whic♚h stood as the session 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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Afte♏r circulating with teammate Marcos Ramirez, the switch to Gonzalez took American Racing rider Roberts to fourꦆth.

Barry Baltus saw 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 rid𝓀er.

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🐷 saw late progress - moving from 22nd to thi🦹rd, with his time only being pushed back a little, ending Friday sixth quickest.

Jake Dixon was bri🅷efly 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 teammate Filip Salac in 16th and the only rider using the chassis to make the Q2 cut.

Silverstone winner Agius wa💞s 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 session, leaving him 13th, but stiꦚll 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 half a second off the lead time in eleventh f🍸or Fantic, Albert Arenas who was twelfth quickest for Gresini and Alonso.

The 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 ꧙Veijer, finishing FP1 in ninth and 14th in the timed practice session.

Celestino Vie💝tti just missed out i🥀n 15th, 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 also among the rider♋s not to directly progr𒅌ess.

Alex Escrig was the best of the Forward ri𝓰ders 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 Goorber🐼gh in FP1 - so will need a trip around tꦅhe long lap loop come race day.

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

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

There was only one crash in the first ses🍨sion of the day - ꧒for 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.