Portimao.- As he did in FP1, the French MotoGP world champion led the second free practice of the Algarve Grand Prix, in Portimao, beating Pecco Bagnaia, his great rival this season, by just over a tenth . El Diablo improved the time of the morning to establish a time of 1:39.390 that was already inaccessible for the Ducati rider, who at the last minute tried a time attack that stayed at 1:39.522, enough to overcome his teammate. team, Jack Miller, who finished third.
Fourth was Joan Mir, who achieved two fastest laps to place himself first on the time sheet with less than four minutes to go, but was eventually overtaken to finish fourth, ahead of Pol Espargaró (fifth) who was again first Honda .
Johann Zarco finished sixth beating Alex Márquez (seventh), who greatly improved his performance, and was faster than Aleix Espargaró (eighth) and his teammate Takaaki Nakagami (ninth). Alex Rins closed out the top 10 on the second Suzuki , provisionally qualifying for Q2.
Out of it, for the moment, were Jorge MartÃn (11th), Maverick Viñales (12th) and the pair of veteran Petronas drivers, Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso who closed the classification (21st and 22nd respectively).
2021 Algarve Grand Prix MotoGP FP2 Results
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| Cla | # | Pilot | Motorcycle | laps | Weather | Difference | Interval | Km/h | |
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| 1 | 20 |  Fabio Quartararo |
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Yamaha | 21 | 1’39,390 | 166,326 | ||
| 2 | 63 |  Pecco Bagnaia |
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Ducati | 18 | 1’39.522 | 0.132 | 0.132 | 166.105 |
| 3 | 43 |  Jack Miller |
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Ducati | 20 | 1’39.611 | 0.221 | 0.089 | 165.957 |
| 4 | 36 |  Joan Mir |
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Suzuki | 20 | 1’39.680 | 0.290 | 0.069 | 165.842 |
| 5 | 44 | Pol Espargaro |
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Sling | twenty | 1’39,792 | 0.402 | 0.112 | 165,656 |
| 6 | 5 | Johann Zarco |
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Ducati | 17 | 1’39.889 | 0.499 | 0.097 | 165,495 |
| 7 | 73 | Alex Marquez |
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Sling | 18 | 1’40.042 | 0.652 | 0.153 | 165,242 |
| 8 | 41 | Aleix Espargaró |
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April | 18 | 1’40,069 | 0.679 | 0.027 | 165,198 |
| 9 | 30 |  Takaaki Nakagami |
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Honda | 19 | 1’40.122 | 0.732 | 0.053 | 165.110 |
| 10 | 42 | Alex Rins |
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Suzuki | 19 | 1’40.176 | 0.786 | 0.054 | 165.021 |
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