Indian MotoGP, Buddh International Circuit - Friday Practice Results

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Luca Marini leads Practice 2 for the inaugural Indian MotoGP, as both Repsol Honda riders Marc Marquez and Joan Mir crack the top ten for direct Qualifying 2 access.

But factory KTM team-mates Brad Binder and Jack Miller were among those to miss out and will need to take part in Saturday's Qualifying 1.

Binder looked to have done more than enough with fourth place on his final lap - only to have the time cancelled due to yellow flags, a fate also suffered by rookie Augusto Fernandez.

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Improving grip levels meant most riders soon switched across to medium-medium tyres this afternoon, with this morning's best of 1m 45.990s by Marco Bezzecchi (although not counting for Q2) remaining the best of the day until the final half-hour of the extended 70-minute session.

Jorge Martin was the first rider to beat Bezzecchi's FP1 time, courtesy of a 1m 45.672s, which kept the Pramac Ducati title contender at the head of the timesheets until Aprilia's Maverick Vinales pulled 0.3s clear with a quarter of an hour to go.

Vinales then promptly ran wide at Turn 1, a theme throughout the opening day for numerous riders, before obstructing his own team-mate Aleix Espargaro as he rejoined.

Bezzecchi returned to the top soon after, before Martin delivered a 1m 44.8s in the closing minutes. Martin's title rival and world championship leader Francesco Bagnaia was still down in 18th at that stage, but the Italian finally showed his cards on a new soft rear to slot into an eventual seventh.

Espargaro then joined Martin in breaking the 1m 45s barrier, before Marini wrung out the best of the day on his penultimate lap.

Fabio Quartararo - who suffered a nightmare FP1, completing just ten laps due to a pair of gearbox technical issues that also prompted Yamaha to call an early end to team-mate Franco Morbidelli's session - mounted an impressive afternoon recovery to reach sixth before the new tyre time attacks.

Downbeat about Yamaha's chances this weekend due to the long straights, Quartararo then rose to second place on soft rubber as the final ten minutes began. Although pushed back by other improvements, the Frenchman held on to eighth.

Miller and then Aleix Espargaro had incidents in the opening 20 minutes, Miller falling at Turn 12 while Espargaro was (again) caught out braking into Turn 1, running on and halting his Aprilia just before the barrier while on top of the timesheets.

Marini was another rider to miss his braking point, then losing the front on the paint before the start of the gravel trap and dropping his GP22. Ducati test rider and factory stand-in Michele Pirro was another afternoon faller.

Moto3 afternoon practice was delayed by 45mins due to 'marshal posts being checked', causing the following Moto2 and MotoGP sessions to start later than planned.