A last lap effort from Pramac’s Johann Zarco denied a dominant Franky Morbidelli in the dying seconds of Friday’s FP2 at Barcelona.

Just two-hundredths of a second separated the satellite riders as practice for the CatalanGP concluded on Friday afternoon with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo completing the top-three, a further tenth behind.

MotoGP FP2 began just as the news of Alex Rins’ successful surgery came in. His teammate heading to the top of the times in the early laps before Pol Espargaro and Fabio Quartararo took charge. A rapid fourth lap effort saw Iker Lecuona hit the top-four until Miguel Oliveira, Aleix Espargaro and Marc Marquez joined the party, Marini running straight on at turn four, completely okay, as Morbidelli once gain placed himself firmly in the mix.

10-minutes down and Viñales was trailing Marquez for second in the incredibly close session - just 0.019s splitting the local pair, with Pol Espargaro a further 0.007s behind - before Quartararo advanced the pace with a 1’40.006. Morbidelli became the first rider into the 1’39’s on his sixth lap of the afternoon, improving again on his next revolution before losing out in the final sector.

Joan Mir held sixth behind the Yamaha/Repsol lockout as the opening 15-minutes concluded. Johann Zarco, running as the fastest Ducati, sat seventh from Oliveira, Espargaro and Lecuona with less than four-tenths covering the entire top-10, Brad Binder, Enea Bastianini, Pecco Bagnaia, Jack Miller and Takaaki Nakagami circulating inside the top-15 and only another two-tenths back.

The new turn 10 configuration caught Oliveira out at the half-way-stage as the KTM took an off-road excursion, with Pol Espargaro managing just to keep it out of the gravel moments later.

The mid-session saw no changes to the timing screens as Valentino Rossi continued to navigate the Montmeló layout from 19th place - over a-second adrift of his teammate’s fastest time of the day, with only his younger brother and Jorge Martin behind him in the standings.

Pitlane was flooded with premier class machines as the clock neared the final 10-minutes and the time attacks approached. Oliveira and the Repsol Honda riders the first to head back out as the action ignited once again.

The KTM man was the first to impact the times as he utilised the hard front and rear Michelin tyres, finding third with a 1’40.096 as Viñales went on the attack and advanced to second. Binder was the next to strike as he dominated the standings with a 1’39.662, Zarco and then Morbidelli hitting back to demote him almost instantly, as he dropped to third. The two Frenchmen looked to be the only dangers as the flag came out and the session wound down, Zarco claiming the spoils with a 1’39.235 - 0.021s ahead of Morbidelli - as Quartararo concluded his session in third.

Binder sat for fourth in front of Bagnaia, Viñales, Miller and Bastianini with Aleix and Pol Espargaro settling for ninth and 10th after an impressive morning’s effort. Nakagami held 11th from Danilo Petrucci, an improving Marini and a disappointed Oliveira with an equally despondent Marc Marquez and Mir demoted to 15th and 16th respectively. Lecuona completed the day 17th from Alex Marquez, Rossi, Lorenzo Savadori and Martin.