Marc Marquez edged out Valentino Rossi on the opening day of the second MotoGP test of the pre-season at Phillip Island. The Honda rider first emerged at the top of the time sheets when he set a 1m29.873s right after a red flag was called to repair the tyre wall at Turn 6 following falls from both Alvaro Bautista and Sam Lowes. Marquez then improved on that benchmark time with a 1m29.497s at the beginning of the final hour, the time leaving him almost half a second clear of the field at the time, and proving strong enough to hold off a flurry of improvements inside the final couple of minutes. One of those late improvers was Rossi, who went from outside the Top 10 with under two hours to...
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