By alley - Aug 28, 2015, 10:31 AM ET

MotoGP: Lorenzo moves ahead in second practice

Jorge Lorenzo fended off Marc Marquez for the top spot in MotoGP's Friday afternoon British Grand Prix practice session at Silverstone.

After fruitlessly chasing Marquez's time in practice one, Lorenzo took charge in the second session with an early 2m02.338s lap. Honda rider Marquez got within 0.033 seconds of the Yamaha's mark, but could get no closer.

The world champion pair were nearly upstaged by top home rider Bradley Smith in the final seconds, as the Tech 3 Yamaha man set the pace in the first three quarters of the lap before falling short and remaining in third place.

Joint points leader Valentino Rossi was only 10th on the second works Yamaha, just under a second behind team-mate Lorenzo.

Dani Pedrosa improved on his morning form to take fourth place for Honda ahead of leading Ducati man Andrea Dovizioso, whose team-mate Andrea Iannone disrupted his session with a crash at Stowe.

Suzuki was struggling for a top-10 presence until Aleix Espargaro shot up the order to sixth later on. That put him just ahead of brother Pol's Tech 3 Yamaha, Iannone, morning star Scott Redding and Rossi.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Rider	Team	Bike	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Jorge Lorenzo	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m02.338ss	2m02.338s	13
2	Marc Marquez	Honda	Honda	2m02.371ss	0.033s	17
3	Bradley Smith	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m02.531ss	0.193s	17
4	Daniel Pedrosa	Honda	Honda	2m02.573ss	0.235s	15
5	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	Ducati	2m02.761ss	0.423s	15
6	Aleix Espargaro	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m02.872ss	0.534s	14
7	Pol Espargaro	Tech 3	Yamaha	2m02.972ss	0.634s	17
8	Andrea Iannone	Ducati	Ducati	2m03.219ss	0.881s	15
9	Scott Redding	Marc VDS	Honda	2m03.284ss	0.946s	17
10	Valentino Rossi	Yamaha	Yamaha	2m03.327ss	0.989s	16
11	Danilo Petrucci	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m03.339ss	1.001s	17
12	Maverick Vinales	Suzuki	Suzuki	2m03.391ss	1.053s	15
13	Hector Barbera	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m03.618ss	1.280s	13
14	Jack Miller	LCR	Honda	2m03.656ss	1.318s	15
15	Cal Crutchlow	LCR	Honda	2m03.748ss	1.410s	14
16	Eugene Laverty	Aspar	Honda	2m03.877ss	1.539s	17
17	Yonny Hernandez	Pramac Racing	Ducati	2m03.878ss	1.540s	16
18	Loris Baz	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m03.977ss	1.639s	15
19	Mike Di Meglio	Avintia Racing	Ducati	2m04.216ss	1.878s	13
20	Stefan Bradl	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m04.416ss	2.078s	16
21	Alvaro Bautista	Aprilia Gresini	Aprilia	2m04.885ss	2.547s	15
22	Nicky Hayden	Aspar	Honda	2m05.295ss	2.957s	15
23	Karel Abraham	AB Motoracing	Honda	2m05.396ss	3.058s	15
24	Alex de Angelis	IodaRacing Project	ART/Aprilia	2m05.820ss	3.482s	13
25	Claudio Corti	Forward Racing	Yamaha Forward	2m06.275ss	3.937s	16