Round four of the 2022 MotoGP World C🌸hampionship continues from the Circuit of the Americas. 

Outꩲside the top ten for much of Friday's FP2 session, Johann Zarco made his final time attack count as he pipped Mꦬiller and MotoGP champion Fabio Quartararo. 

Despite track conditions heating up 🐈for FP2, lap times we✃re immediately on pace with Alex Rins’ best effort from FP1.

Jack Miller kicked off the hot laps by going within a tenth ⛦of Rins’ 2:04.007s, while Enea Bastianini moved up to fourth aboard his Gresini Racing Ducati. 

Although a lot of the circuit’s bum𓄧ps were smoothed out, turn nine, a big problem area in 2021 nearly caught out Jorge Martin 🌟as the Pramac rider lost the front not once, but twice.

Thankfully, the Spaniard held𝓰 on and managed to stay upright. 

While Martin was wrestling his Desmosedici GP22 around turn nine, Mil𒁃ler had no such issues aboard his fac🌞tory machine as he went five tenths clear of anyone. 

The Australian set a time of 2:03.567s before Bastianini and Aleix Esꦍpargaro joined him in going underneath the best FP1 time.

After two disastrous Grand Prix, Andrea Dovizioso began to show good pace duri𝔉ng the early stages of FP2. The Italia๊n went as high as P8 before quick laps from Francesco Bagnaia, Marc Marquez and Joan Mir bumped the three-time runner-up down to 11th.

As was the case in ✤FP1, both Aprilia riders started to find their rhythm as Espargaro went P3, before Maverick Vnales put his RS-GP22 into second. 

A MotไoGP winner for the first time last weekend, Espargaro has so far looked like a contender for the podium, while Vinales has shown even more potential💎. 

However, as the field began to close up, Rins and his new soft rear tyre moved the benchmark time a whole five tenths fu🌱rther away. 

Rins then backed u𒆙p his time of 2:03.030s with another lap within a tenth of a second. 

Although it was very good pace from the Suzuki rider, the ease with whi🉐ch he was achieving it should be alarming for the rest of the grid heading into qualifying.  

With five of the six manufacturers represented inside the top ten with a quarter of FP2 to go, the only ones missing were KTM 🔯who were surprisingly struggling. 

Brad Binder was quickest of the Austrian manufacturer’s four riders in 13th. Team-mate Miguel Oliveira had a shocker as he could only manage last place🦄.

With his team-mate fastest, Mir was pushing hard in order to match Rins’s efforts but thဣe 2020 world champion appeared to be struggling.

However, his next lap around was goo꧃d enough to go second, despite pulling all kinds of shapes to do it. 

Looking to relegate Mir and Rins off the top two spots, Maꦗrquez and Miller were both on absolutely brilliant laps. 

Marquez fell short in the final sector, but Miller did not as he went top.&ꦓnbsp; 

But just as Miller looked to have taken FP2 honours, Zarco went a further two tenths quicker,while fellow countryman Quartararo also💯 leaped up from 11th to third.

Bastianini managed to keep hold of fourth late on, while race favourite R🌺ins and Marquez were fifth and sixth respectively. A. Esprargaro was the first rider to miss out on a top ten in 11th.