Italian Danilo Petrucci topped the timesheets on Tuesday in an incident-packed second day of pre-season MotoGP testing at Malaysia's Sepang circuit featuring a dramatic high speed tyre blow-out involving Frenchman Loris Baz. In track temperatures of almost 50 degrees Celsius (122 F), Petrucci on a Ducati was among the few riders who improved their times by adapting well to the sizzling weather and new Michelin tyres. The 25-year-old Italian clocked 2min 00.095sec, 0.060 seconds faster than Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo who dominated Monday's practice on his Yamaha. Lorenzo, the 2015 MotoGP world champion who is chasing a fourth championship title, fell at Turn 5 while Honda's Dani Pedrosa...
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