Alex Marquez pulled off a stunning last lap in the dying seconds to top the MotoGP time tracker in the second Friday practice session in Thailand.
Despite dominating for the vast majority of the session, Marc Marquez relinquished the top spot right at the end.
Marquez’s quickest lap time of 1.29.020s bettered his older brother’s posting by 0.052s.
It was an all Spanish top three as KTMs Pedro Acosta bounced back from a difficult first session to round off the top three.
Marco Bezzecchi displayed his competitive edge once more on the Aprilia, despite a late crash while lapping quickest.
Bezzecchi’s crash compromised particular runs in the closing 90 seconds due to the issuing of yellow flags, namely Francesco Bagnaia’s lap.
Despite yellow flags being taken away in that part of the track, Bagnaia couldn’t have posted a better run to send himself to Q2 on Saturday due to multiple riders on the track on the racing line. He finished the session in 13th.
Franco Morbidelli was completely oblivious to see that his fellow VR46 Academy graduate was on a hot lap, meaning the two-time MotoGP champion will have it all to do on Saturday.
Morbidelli himself slotted his VR46 Ducati into Q2 thanks to a fifth place finish overall, joining Joan Mir who finished sixth to deliver some optimism in the Honda garage
Both Trackhouse riders of Raul Fernandez and Ai Ogura finished seventh and ninth, respectively, with Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo ending the session between the Aprilias.
After leading the session for a very brief moment, Johann Zarco finished the session in tenth place for LCR Honda.
KTMs next nearest challengers saw Maverick Vinales and Brad Binder finish just outside the top ten, but the improvements from the first practice is evident to see.
Jack Miller produced a respectable 14th place for Pramac Yamaha, but finished only 0.726s off the leaders.
Fabio Di Giannantonio improved his feeling on the Ducati from the opening practice to finish 15th in the second session.
Luca Marini and Alex Rins salvaged 16th and 17th place for their respective Japanese marque, despite the promising Q2 places earnt by their teammates.
Miguel Oliveira finished 18th quickest and the last rider to finish under a second radius behind the table topping Marquez brothers.
Enea Bastianini continued to adapt to his KTM as he finished in the lower echelons once again, but defeated debutants Fermin Aldeguer and Somkiat Chantra.
Lorenzo Savadori finished the session in last for Aprilia as the test rider is filling in for defending MotoGP Jorge Martin, who is out injured.
