Jack Miller lead the way as the track formed a dry line to top the European MotoGP FP2 session at the Ricardo Tormo Circ𝓡uit in Val𒆙encia.

The Pramac Racing rider looked race ready, an early highlight of his session a 🍸supremely tight pass inside Maverick Vinales to move into first.

The lead changed hands continuously before a well timed last lap from 𝔍the Australian landed him a best of 1m 32.528s as the chequered flag waved.

Every rider improved in the session, with an almost as impressive late run from Aleix Espargaro seeing him leap u🅷p to second, just 0.092s behind Miller’s best.

The Aprilia Racing Team Gresini rider didn’t really feature on the timesheets until the closing moments, when his time bettered that of Franco Morbidelli. The Petronas man was consistently a feature in the top t𓆏imes but had to settle for third, thou꧙gh he remained the top Yamaha despite a run through the gravel as he pushed his bike to the limit.

Takaaki Nakagami rallied🔯 after a lacklustre performance in the wet to be fourth best in FP2 for LCR Honda Idem♍itsu.

Pol Espargaro was another rider to fli🎉rt with the top spot on his way to fifth for Red Bull KTM, just ahead of the top Suzuki with Alex Rins on board in sixth.

The Spaniard inherited the position when Cal Crutchlow had his best lap cancelled𓄧 as the session concluded, his next best effort was only good enough for twelfth.

Brad Binder was the top rookie in the session as his late ⛎effort saw him rise to seventh for Red Bull KTM, that last run pushed him ahead of Andrea Dovizioso, with the Ducati man eighth.

Championship leader Joan Mir snuck back into the top ten courtesy of the Crutchlow de🌟motion, with his closest rival Fabio Quartararo also𓄧 stumbling in the tricky conditions, he was one place higher than the Suzuki rider in ninth for Petronas.

Quartararo🦩 had still made sig𒅌nificant progress from the previous session, where he had finished last in the wet. 

Maverick Vinales was ▨a disappointing eleventh on the Yamaha factory entry but worse news was to come - it was announced during FP2 that he would be using a sixth engine which leads to a demoralising pit ꦬlane start for the title contender.

Stefan Bradl, in for Marc Marquez, was the top Repsol Honda in 14th. After his recent successes and return to form Alex Marquez was a disappointing 1🌺6th.

Danilo Petrucci had a late fall, but was eager to get back to the pits to finish the session and keep his place in the provisio🎀nal top ten. The Italian ran back to the pits from turn fourteeen, but his keenness was not matched by his Ducati mechanics - on his return his bike was not ready to get back on track. Petrucci could only watch as he dropped to 18th.

Garrett Gerloff may have finished 19th but he set the session alight with his performance, excited by the opportunity handed to him in Valentino Rossi’s absence while wait🌠ing for a second negative Covid-19 test, he made the most of it. As high as fifth in the early stages he was competitive and not far off the lead pace of Miller, finiꦺshing just over 1.5s off the top time at the close after an impressive string of laps on a new track for the American with unfamiliar equipment.

At the back of the pack was Bradl🃏ey Smith’s replacem🍒ent at Aprilia for the final three rounds; Lorenzo Savadori; who was three seconds adrift on his debut, with Tito Rabat unusually over four seconds off the pace at a track he knows extremely well in 21st. 

Iker Lecuona is abs🍌ent from the race weekend following his brother’s positive Covid test.