Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone set a shock fastest time in second free practice for MotoGP's Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin on Friday afternoon. Having spent much of the session playing second fiddle to Honda’s Marc Marquez, Iannone pulled out an amazing lap of 2m04.599s in the dying moments to beat Marquez – the renowned master of Austin – by 0.056s. Weather conditions remained cool at the start of the session, but the sun finally breaking through the clouds and appeared to switch on the tyres in the closing moments of the session. Marquez had led from the start, working down to 2m05.287s on his opening run. On his second run, Marquez – using a hard rear tyre – whirled around...
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