Marc Marquez put his ferocious morning crash behind him by topping the second MotoGP session at the Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin.But the world champion’s closest challenger was a surprise – as Trackhouse Aprilia’s second-year racer Ai Ogura came within 0.053 seconds of beating Marquez, who played himself back in with very muted laptimes in the first half of the session before setting the pace when it counted.It looked like this might be a breakthrough session for Marquez’s struggling team-mate Pecco Bagnaia as he set the pace for most of the early running. But he faded when everyone switched to qualifying simulations and look at risk of missing Q2 before late rise to eighth.Fabio Di Giannantonio continued his very strong start to the year for VR46 in third, followed by the Aprilia of …
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Author: Matt Beer
