Vinales fastest on Day 2 at Phillip Island

The Suzuki rider clocked in at 1m29.131s during the latter part of the day’s running, which was enough to leave him 0.161s clear of Repsol Honda rider Marc Marquez after the pair staged a shoot-out of quick laps inside the last five minutes.

The factory Yamaha pair were third and fourth fastest, Jorge Lorenzo edging out Valentino Rossi by less than half a tenth.

Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda) was fifth fastest, ahead of Hector Barbera (Avintia Ducati) and works Ducati rider Andrea Iannone.

Dani Pedrosa was eighth fastest on the second Repsol Honda, but it was hardly a straightforward day for the Spaniard.

Around 90 minutes from the end of the session Pedrosa sparked a red flag by crashing at Turn 4, but was quickly given the all-clear and was able to resume running shortly afterwards.

That wasn’t the only red flag either; with just 10 minutes of the day’s running left to go Yonny Hernandez (Aspar Ducati) crashed at the same spot as Pedrosa.

The Colombian was also uninjured, but with so little time left didn’t make it back out.

Full testing times:

Pos	Rider	Team	Fastest lap	Gap
1	Maverick Vinales	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	1:29.131
2	Marc Marquez	Repsol Honda Team	1:29.292	0.161
3	Jorge Lorenzo	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	1:29.357	0.226
4	Valentino Rossi	Movistar Yamaha MotoGP	1:29.404	0.273
5	Cal Crutchlow	LCR Honda	1:29.671	0.540
6	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	1:29.854	0.723
7	Andrea Iannone	Ducati Team	1:29.857	0.726
8	Dani Pedrosa	Repsol Honda Team	1:29.917	0.786
9	Scott Redding	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	1:29.941	0.810
10	Bradley Smith	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	1:29.992	0.861
11	Loris Baz	Avintia Racing	1:30.134	1.003
12	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati Team	1:30.142	1.011
13	Pol Espargaro	Monster Yamaha Tech 3	1:30.154	1.023
14	Danilo Petrucci	Octo Pramac Yakhnich	1:30.156	1.025
15	Aleix Espargaro	Team SUZUKI ECSTAR	1:30.385	1.254
16	Yonny Hernandez	Aspar MotoGP Team	1:30.509	1.378
17	Jack Miller	EG 0.0 Marc VDS	1:30.514	1.383
18	Eugene Laverty	Aspar MotoGP Team	1:30.617	1.486
19	Tito Rabat	EG 0.0 Marc VDS	1:30.650	1.519
20	Takuya Tsuda	Suzuki Test Team	1:32.599	3.468