Andrea Iannone led Ducati teammate Andrea Dovizioso in the morning warm-up session for the Dutch TT at Assen, as riders prepared themselves for the possibility of a wet race. With rain forecast before the start of the race, several of the top riders took the opportunity to spend the first few minutes of the session scrubbing in wet and intermediate tyres, although conditions in warm-up remained dry until the final minutes. Tech 3 Yamaha teammates Bradley Smith and Pol Espargaro, as well as Aprilia's Alvaro Bautista, all enjoyed brief spells at the top of the timesheets early on, before Jorge Lorenzo took control with a 1m35.553s shortly before the halfway mark. That was quickly followed by...
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