British rider Scott Redding (Marc VDS Racing) was fastest of the day in the Moto2, ahead current Championship points leader Stefan Bradl (Viessmann Kiefer Racing) who was second fastest, and Yonny Hernández (Blusens-STX) in third.
As was the case in MotoGP the unfavourable weather conditions in FP2 saw the Moto2 field post their fastest times in the first practice session, where Redding set a quick early pace, maintaining the lead through the session and setting his fastest time of 2'09.808 on his last lap of the session. Bradl pushed to top Redding's time but finished the session over half a second behind the Brit.
Simone Corsi (Ioda Racing Project) followed Bradl with the third fastest time until the last lap, when Yonny Hernández sneaked in a hot lap of 2'10.510 to put him third in the timings and bumped Corsi down to fourth.
Randy Krummenacher of GP Team Switzerland Kiefer Racing set the fifth fastest time with Marc Márquez (Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol) finishing sixth. Earlier in the session Márquez had chased the leader Redding's time along with Bradley Smith (Tech 3). Smith finished the practice just 0.005s behind Márquez.
Italian rider Alex de Angelis (JiR Moto2) set the eighth fastest lap with Jules Cluzel (Forward Racing) in ninth and Xavier Simeon (Tech 3 B) in tenth.
[Press Release Courtesy of the MotoGP]
