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Tom Sykes has slashed at the deficit to Kawasaki teammate Jonathan Rea during the second fre𒆙e practice at Assen to jumಞp up to second.

With FP2 held 24 hours before the opening Assen race, the bulk of the focus for World Superbike riders was on race set-up, but Sykes was still able to notch up a 1m 35.708s to move to within one-tenth of timeshee♕t-topper Rea🙈.

Michael van der Mark’s best effort from FP1 saw him shuffled down to third place on the combined times for Pata Yamaha while all of the front-runners marginally improved. Melandri was the biggest improver in FP2 to jump to fouﷺrth place for Aruba.it Racing Ducati with Jordi Torres ro🐟unding out the top five on the MV Agusta.

Lorenzo Savador🙈i bounced back from his first practice session fall to take sixth place on the combined times for Milwaukee Aprilia ahead of Barni Ducati’s Xavi Fores and Althea BMW’s Loris Baz.

Pata Yamaha’👍s Alex Lowes and factory Ducati’s Chaz Davies provisionally ho⭕ld the final top spots for the automatic switch into Superpole 2.

Sole Red Bull Honda rider🍰 Jake Gagne suffered a huge crash midway through FP2 when he went wide and dropped his rear wheel on to the grass which sent him into a dramatic high-side crash. After being checked over at the medical centre the American rider was declared fit to continue despite a couple of heavy blows on his hip.