Friday at Aragon with Tony Goldsmith

Jorge Lorenzo dominated FP1 & FP2, and finished over half a second ahead of the rest of the field.

Valentino Rossi was 2nd at the end of the first day at Motorland Aragon.

Bradley Smith finished 3rd to complete a Yamaha clean sweep of the provisional front row.

Marc Marquez during FP1. He was 5th quickest today, only 0.043 seconds behind his Repsol Honda teammate.

Maverick Vinales had a tough day. He finished down in 16th place, more than two seconds off the pace.

Andrea Iannone is riding injured after re-dislocating his shoulder in a recent training accident.

Andrea Dovizioso changing his knee sliders prior to the start of FP2.

Cal Crutchlow is struggling again. He finished Day 1 in 13th place, 1.5 seconds off the pace of Jorge Lorenzo.

Dani Pedrosa leaves his pit box during FP2.

Jorge Lorenzo has so far left his wings hanging up at the back of his pit box.

Valentino Rossi during FP1.

Toni Elias is back in MotoGP riding for the Forward Racing team for the rest of the season. Before the start of FP2 he wrapped a piece of sand paper around the handle bar of his bike to scrub in the throttle hand of his new Alpinestars gloves.

Aleix Espargaro struggled in FP1, but improved significantly in FP2 to finished in 7th place.

Eugene Laverty had a great FP1 finishing 11th.

Jorge Lorenzo laid down a marker on the opening day at Motorland Aragon. On this form he is going to be tough to beat on Sunday.

Tony Goldsmith is an Isle of Man based freelance motorcycle racing photographer specialising in MotoGP and the Isle of Man TT races. His website can be found at www.tonygoldsmith.net. He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.