Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi has upped his MotoGP free practice game substantially to take top spot in the first session at Assen this morning while Marc Marquez bounced back from an early crash to take second. Rossi put in a short run of laps right at the end of the period which culminated in a 1’34.357 to bag top spot while current champion Marquez, who has mated a 2014 RC213V chassis to the 2015 engine and electronics, went down at the fast Ramshoek on his first out-lap just two minutes into the session. Marquez ended just two-tenths behind the Movistar Yamaha man after setting his fastest lap of 1’34.552, completed behind Bradley Smith who didn’t look like he was...
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