As was ✤the case during 📖P1, Alex Marquez was the early pacesetter for Gresini Ducati, as the Spaniard went within a tenth of his time attack effort from earlier in the day.

While many riders began the sessi𒈔on on race runs, Miguel Oliveira went for an unusual time attack after just eight minutes in order to get a banker lap in - the RNF Aprilia man went third quickest.

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The bad news fo🥃r O💎liveira is that he crashed moments later in what was a very fast fall at turn two.  

Not on a time attack run but still putting in very fast lap times was Bagnaia, as the reigning world champ✤ion was b🌺eginning to look ominous.

Bagnaia, who had a used medium on the front and rear of his factory machine, went within a tenth of Luca Marini’s fastest time from P1, shortly before returning to pit ❀lane.&nꦗbsp;

Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi was another rider who immediately went quicker than in P1, however, it wasn’t enough to move the Italian into the top ten as⛎ he sat in P11 with nearly half the session gone. 

For the second time in P2, Fabio Quartararo came close to going down after a🍒 huge wobble on the exit of turn nine. The fꦍirst moment came at turn 15 when he momentarily lost the front-end of his M1.

Next to🐻 fit a soft rear tyre was Jorge Martin but the Pramac rider made a costly mistake at the final corner on his first time attack attempt.

But on lap two there were no such dramas as Martin went to the top of the leaderboard on combined 🧸times. 

After already crashing early on, Oliveira went down for a second ꦆtime in the session after losing the front at turn 12. 

Quiet on his return throughout P1 and the early stages of P2, Joan Mir sprung into life as he went fastest for Repsol Honda at the start of the qualifying runs.&nbs🌠p;

Rins then made it a Hon🙈da 1-2 as he went fastest, however, Aleix Espargar♍o was quick to deny the LCR rider.

A flurry of fast laps then came in as Vinales was first to dislodge Espargaro off top spot. However, Marini res🍌ponded with a time of 2:02.664s as Bagnaia and Rins joineཧd him inside the top three. 

Marini looked set to blitz his best time before a mistake in sector four opened the door for Bagnaia to sweep in and tak🐬e top spot, which he did by over a tenth.

At the start of the final time attack run, Martin did what he does best as he extracted eℱverything from his ♑Ducati over one lap to set a stunning time of 2:02.178s.

Rins jumped up to second moments later, while B🎃inder knocked Bezzecchi out of the top ten with his final effort.

There were late falls for Stefan Bradl, Johann Zarco, while Mir had to take avoiding action as Zarco’s bike was lying on the race trꦺack.