[kropotkin thinks...] - 2017 Misano MotoGP FP2 Result: Petrucci Feels Like Home

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Bright sunshine and a warmer track meant that the premier class riders were pretty damn quick right out the box, Marc Marquez bettering his FP1-topping time on only his sixth lap on a hard front/medium rear tyre combination. Teammate Dani Pedrosa followed him through while wearing his shoes the other way around, with a medium front and a hard rear. Things calmed down soon after, in the lookout for some race pace, which both Hondas and the Ducati duo of Danilo Petrucci and Andrea Dovizioso looked to have to spare, Dovizioso also giving the hard rear a good go to deal with the hotter conditions.

The final ten minutes saw the usual fast run to ensure a decent Q2 benchmark, with the notable exception of the Repsol Hondas who continued on used mediums.*After struggling outside the top five for most of the day, Maverick Viñales put his new mediums to good use to narrowly miss on the top position by five thousandths of a second. The honour remained Petrucci’s, with the championship leader in third.