La weather forecasts is significantly similar to that of yesterday, for this second day of testing in Australia, but today, many drivers are taking to the track as soon as it opens.
There are in fact a dozen of them taking advantage of a quarter of an hour allocated by the organization to carry out initial tests: Aleix and Pol Espargaro, Maverick Vinales, Karel Abraham, Scott Redding, Johan Zarco, Andrea Dovizioso, Cal Crutchlow, Jonas Folger, Alex Rins and Marc Marquez.
Then the serious things begin, and Andrea Dovizioso immediately recorded a 1'29.992, or 4 tenths better than his best time yesterday. Same thing for Alex Espargaro et Cal Crutchlow which respectively slam a 1'30.219 and 1'29.662 seeming to indicate that the track is significantly faster than yesterday, and/or that the new tires brought by Michelin and tested only today and tomorrow prove much more efficient...
Certainly, we are still far from the 1 achieved by Jorge Lorenzo in 2013, but there is already no doubt that yesterday's times will be beaten.
Besides, after an hour, Maverick Vinales beats Marc Marquez's best time yesterday by registering a 1'28.846
Conversely, Dani Pedrosa not running this morning, victim of a little tracheitis. He will try to participate this afternoon.
The second hour ends with a nice rise in the ranking of Jonas Folger which is positioned in 6th place, 8 tenths of a Maverick Vinales which stuck with everyone for almost half a second.
For the moment, no new fairing has appeared, neither at Aprilia nor at Suzuki.
| Pos | Pile | Team | Chrono | Deviations | Tours | |
| 1 | P | VIÑALES, Maverick | Yamaha Motor Racing | 1:28.846 | 21 / 29 | |
| 2 | MARCHEZ, Marc | Repsol Honda Team | 1:29.309 | 0.463 | 20 / 29 | |
| 3 | P | Espargaro, Aleix | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1:29.502 | 0.656 | 18 / 18 |
| 4 | CRUTCHLOW, Cal | Honda LCR | 1:29.662 | 0.816 | 12 / 24 | |
| 5 | Rossi, Valentine | Yamaha Motor Racing | 1:29.674 | 0.828 | 18 / 24 | |
| 6 | P | Folger, Jonas | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | 1:29.693 | 0.847 | 22 / 22 |
| 7 | P | MILLER, Jack | Team EG 0,0 Marc VDS | 1:29.956 | 1.110 | 11 / 19 |
| 8 | P | DOVIZIOSO, Andrew | Ducati Team | 1:29.992 | 1.146 | 8 / 20 |
| 9 | P | BAUTISTA, Alvaro | Pull&Bear Aspar Team | 1:30.091 | 1.245 | 6 / 17 |
| 10 | P | ABRAHAM, Karel | Pull&Bear Aspar Team | 1:30.142 | 1.296 | 20 / 23 |
| 11 | P | PETRUCCI, Danilo | Octo Pramac Racing | 1:30.207 | 1.361 | 9 / 24 |
| 12 | BARBERA, Hector | Royal Esponsorama Racing | 1:30.353 | 1.507 | 18 / 18 | |
| 13 | P | LORENZO, Jorge | Ducati Team | 1:30.467 | 1.621 | 9 / 19 |
| 14 | Rins, Alex | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1:30.579 | 1.733 | 15 / 31 | |
| 15 | P | ESPARGARÓ, Pol | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:30.645 | 1.799 | 24 / 24 |
| 16 | P | ZARCO, Johann | Monster Yamaha Tech 3 | 1:30.667 | 1.821 | 11 / 19 |
| 17 | P | IANNON, Andrew | Team SUZUKI ECSTAR | 1:30.749 | 1.903 | 7 / 14 |
| 18 | BAZ, Loris | Royal Esponsorama Racing | 1:30.979 | 2.133 | 4 / 14 | |
| 19 | P | REDDING, Scott | Octo Pramac Racing | 1:31.472 | 2.626 | 24 / 25 |
| 20 | SMITH, Bradley | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 1:32.116 | 3.270 | 13 / 21 | |
| 21 | LOWES, Sam | Aprilia Racing Team Gresini | 1:32.428 | 3.582 | 7 / 22 | |
| NC | PEDROSA, Dani | Repsol Honda Team |
