Listen to this article The second 45-minute session of the Qatar weekend took place under more representative conditions for the race, as dusk had fallen and the floodlights came on. With the temperatures also cooler, lap time improvements on the combined order were quick to come in as the opening moment ticked away in FP2. Gresini’s Enea Bastianini guided his 2021 Ducati to the top of the order with a 1m54.782s, which was marginally quicker than Brad Binder’s best lap from FP1. Marc Marquez quickly deposed Bastianini on the radically revised 2022 Honda, the six-time world champion going top with a 1m54.648ss. The Espargaro brothers then annexed the top of the order, Aleix on the Aprilia edging ahead of Honda’s Marquez with a 1m54.490s with just over 10 minutes of the session gone. He improved to a 1m54.463s around 13 minutes later, before his brother Pol Espargaro on the sister factory team Honda found just over three tenths to go faster with a 1m54.155s. The younger of the Espargaro’s improved to a 1m54.041s, before Joan Mir on the Suzuki set the first sub 1m54s lap of the weekend with a 1m53.976s. This was bettered by Marc Marquez on with a 1m53.711s, before Alex …