Outside the top ten for muc🌃h of the session, Zarco made his final time attack count as he pipped Miller and MotoGP champion Fabio 🉐Quartararo. 

Despite track condition𝐆s heating up for FP2, lap times were immediately on pace with Alex Rins’ best effort from FP1.&nbs🅠p;

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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 bumps 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 Sp❀aniard 🐈held on and managed to stay upright. 

While Martin was wrestling 🀅his Desmosedi🍒ci GP22 around turn nine, Miller had no such issues aboard his factory machine as he went five tenths clear of anyone. 

T𓂃he Australian set a time of 2:03.567s before Bastianini and Aleix Espargaro joined him in going underneath the beౠst FP1 time.

After two disastrous Grand Prix, Andrea Dovizioso began to show good pac🌱e during the early stages of FP2. The Italian 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 MotoGP winner for the first time last weekend, Espargaro has so far looked like a contenderᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ for the podium, while Vinales has shown even more potential. 

Rins the strongest?

However, as🌞 the field began to close up, Rins and his new soft rear tyre moved the benchmark time a whole five tenths further away. 🗹;

Rins then backed up his time of 2:03.030s with anothe♛r lap within a tenth of a second. 

Although it was very good pღace from the Suzuki rider, the ease with which he was achieving it should be alarming for the rest of the grid heading into qualifying.&nbs𒁏p; 

With fꦑive 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.

Not coming as easy for Mir...

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

However, his next lap ar🌟ound was good enough to go second, despite pulling all kinds of shapes to do it. 

Looking to relegate Mir and 💮Rins off the top two spots, Marquez and Miller were both on absolutely brilliant lapಌs. 

Marquez fell short in the fina💃l sector, but Miller did not as he went top. &n🔥bsp;

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

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