Marc Marquez remained firmly in control in the second practice of the Aragon MotoGP weekend, as all four Yamahas - including Fabio Quartararo - missed out on the top 10.
Quartararo entered the weekend on a run of three successive pole positions but that run looks almost guaranteed to end here, with the Frenchman having endured a dreadful Friday afternoon.
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He spent a considerable chunk of the hour getting visibly angry on his bike and having massive moments - including during his late-session qualifying simulations.
He was only 18th and no other Yamaha rider managed better than 15th (Alex Rins) as the M1 bike was well and truly exposed by the Motorland Aragon layout.
Advanced to Q2: M Marquez, A Marquez, Vinales, Mir, Acosta, Zarco, Binder, Aldeguer, Bagnaia, Morbidelli
Will contest Q1: Bezzecchi, Di Giannantonio, Bastianini, R Fernandez, Rins, Miller, A Fernandez, Quartararo, Savadori, Oliveira, Chantra
Marquez continued exactly where he'd left off in the opening session and led for most of the hour. He needed just a single time attack on the soft rear tyre to post a table-topping 1m46.397s - and didn't even bother to run another soft rear in the final minutes.
It meant brother Alex closed in to two tenths off Marquez, but the rest of the field was still hugely adrift.
Only Maverick Vinales (KTM) and Joan Mir (Honda) joined the Marquezes in the 1m46s laptime range - a range Marc Marquez already dipped into on used tyres in first practice - and both were over half a second off the pace, having set identical laptimes.
Pedro Acosta and Brad Binder joined Vinales in the top seven and Enea Bastainini briefly threatened to make it four KTMs in Q2 - though his laptime, ultimately good enough only for 13th, was aided by a tow from Fermin Aldeguer.
Johann Zarco was sixth for LCR Honda, while Ducati trio Aldeguer, Pecco Bagnaia and Franco Morbidelli rounded out the top 10 behind Binder, Aldeguer having sniped a top 10 spot from Aprilia's British Grand Prix winner Marco Bezzecchi at the last moment.
Though Yamaha's pace was dire, it featured a standout effort from wildcard Augusto Fernandez - just a tenth off the best Yamaha (on what, encouragingly, should be a development-spec M1, though still one with an inline-four engine rather than a V4) and ahead of Quartararo.
