Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez has topped the timesheets in this afternoon's second MotoGP free practice session held in the wet at Assen which saw Jorge Lorenzo taken to the medical centre with a fractured left collarbone.
The Factory Yamaha rider crashed at the sixth-gear Hog Heide right-hander when his rear wheel touched a big puddle as he turned in and the Spaniard was spat off. He walked to the barriers holding his arm and was treated in an ambulance before being taken for further treatment.
The Spaniard now faces treatment decisions but it could not have come at a worse time in the season as the next race is at the Sachsenring in two weeks but Laguna Seca is back-to-back. It's a possible 75 point loss for the reigning champion if the fracture is bad enough to stop him riding.
Team-mate Valentino Rossi nicked second spot with a 1'47.689, 0.252 behind Marquez's Repsol Honda while Pedrosa, who led with one minute left to go, found himself demoted to third as his team-mate, who has virtually no experience of wet weather riding on a MotoGP bike, went six-tenths faster.
Stefan Bradl took fourth place ahead of Andrea Dovizioso's Ducati while a last-lap charge by Nicky Hayden saw him leap from outside the top 15 into sixth place and just over a second off the pace.
Monster Yamaha's Cal Crutchlow led the way with a handful of minutes left but slid down the order to seventh while Danilo Petrucci took eighth and top spot in the CRT battle. PBM team-mate Yonny Hernandez and Michael Laverty rounded out the top ten. Bradley Smith was 18th.
