Suzuki Ecstar rider Maverick Vinales topped the practice times for the German Grand Prix on Friday, putting in a 1:22.161, with just one rider, Andrea Iannone, able to get within half a second of the Spaniard.
Ducati's Iannone ended up two-tenths off, with Marc Marquez third, more than six-tenths adrift for the Honda team.
The session saw a slow start with little action until Yamaha Tech 3's Bradley Smith headed out, followed by Valentino Rossi five minutes later. That seemed to kick things off as the remainder of the field soon joined them.
Vinales, although quickest and close to 2015 lap times, didn't have it all his own way after recovering from a nasty fall during the session. He was quickly back up and running though and did enough to keep himself top.
Fourth was LCR Honda's Cal Crutchlow. The Briton was just 0.042s adrift of Marquez, but a tenth quicker than his former team-mate Andrea Dovizioso. Ducati were again the only team to have both of their bikes in the top five.
Aleix Espargaro (Team Suzuki Ecstar), Hector Barbera (Avintia Racing), Danilo Petrucci (Octo Pramac Yakhnich), Scott Redding (Octo Pramac Yakhnich) and Yonny Hernandez (Aspar Ducati Team) completed the top ten.
Loris Baz made his competitive return following an injury, to go P21 and last, 2.8 seconds off the leaders.
Turn 11 claimed more than just Vinales during the session, with Tito Rabat also falling, whilst Eugene Laverty crashed at Turn 1. All were unharmed.
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