The second session of the free-class premier class saw Dani Pedrosa be the fastest on track, followed by Scott Redding and Danilo Petrucci, with some of the biggest stars not to be seen, from the factory Yamaha out of the top ten or Dovizioso and Márquez – the italian was the fastest in the FP1 – , didn’t even left the garages.

The track was starting to dry up when FP2 started. Viñales and Pedrosa were among the few to attack the japanese asphalt at an early stage, along with Bautista, Abraham, Rins and Morbodelli.

Andddd #MotoGP is go again in Motegi 🇯🇵 The track is damp and it looks like some riders are prepared to wait for it to dry out ⏱ pic.twitter.com/A1HQ34FlKg — MotoGP™🇯🇵🏁 (@MotoGP) October 19, 2018

Rins and Guintoli were preparing to debut a aerodynamic fairing, when Zarco took the lead on the timesheet 32 minutes to the end.

Suzuki was debuting the new aerodynamic fairing:

The best time of the session was achieved by Dani Pedrosa. The ‘samurai’ has managed to show ‘a bit’ of his strenght and was able to take advantage of the conditions, being even the fastest of FP2. Scott Redding was second, ahead of Petrucci, in a session where riders like Dovizioso and Márquez didn’t complete a single lap: