Yamaha's Maverick Vinales set the pace in the Friday afternoon MotoGP practice session at Assen, followed by Italian trio Andrea Iannone, Danilo Petrucci and Valentino Rossi. It took Marc Marquez five minutes to beat his own benchmark from FP1 with a 1m34.041s, which gave him a 1.2-second advantage over the field at the time. But he didn't improve for the rest of his first run as he had several moments with his bike, including once running wide and on the gravel at the exit of Turn 7. Andrea Dovizioso was the first rider to get close to Marquez with a 1m34.231s and the top two remained unchanged for the first half of the session. Dovizioso was then next to improve again, the Italian...
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