DOHA: Maverick Vinales survived a high-speed crash to maintain his iron-grip on the Qatar MotoGP on Friday (Saturday in Manila), finishing the second day of practice comfortably the fastest man on the track.

The 22-year-old Spaniard, who had already dominated under the Losail floodlights in Thursday’s opening session, clocked a best time of 1min 54.316sec on his Yamaha to lead Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone (0.532sec behind) and Honda’s defending world champion Marc Marquez (0.596).

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