Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez increased his gap over team-mate Dani Pedrosa to almost half a second in the second MotoGP free practice session and was the only man to break the 1’55s barrier with a 1’54.828 as only 1.7s covered the top 20 riders. The reigning world champion was well under Casey Stoner’s lap record of 1’55.153 but still has some way to go to better Jorge Lorenzo’s outright best of 1’53.927 set on qualifying tyres in 2008. Pedrosa ended 0.0447s behind Marquez but only found a tenth over his time from yesterday while Andrea Dovizioso parked the factory Ducati in third place and is less than one one-hundredth behind his former Honda team-mate. Britain’s Cal...
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