Quartararo Le Mans MotoGP
Quartararo Le Mans MotoGP

French MotoGP at Le Mans: Sprint race as it happened

Recap Saturday's MotoGP action at Le Mans.

14:23
Top nine

Martin, M🦄a꧋rquez, Vinales, Bastianini, Espargaro, Acosta, Di Giannantonio, Miller, Raul Fernandez.

14:23
Martin wins another sprint, his second at Le Mans

Martin has done it once again. The Spaniard is the sprint king a🎶gain at Le Mans as he wins from M🅠arc Marquez and Vinales. 

14:21

Big save fr💝om Acosta at the penultimate corner as he loses ground to Espargaro. 

14:21
Lap 12 of13

Martin leads Marquez by over two seconds following Bezzecchi's crash. Bastianini is catching Vinales for thiඣrd. 

14:18
Lap 10 of 13

Coming under big pressure from Marquez, Bezzecchi has 🎉crashed out!

14:15
Lap 8 of 13

Martin ♚is now well clear of Bezzecchi💞 who is now losing time to Marquez.

14:13
Lap 7 of 13

Alex Rins⛦ is down after contact we bel🙈ieve with KTM's Brad Binder. 

14:11
Bagnaia update

The world champion is out and retired on lඣap 3 of the rac🅺e. 

14:10
Lap 5 of 13

Bezzecchi is closing in on Martin and Marquez is not th🅺at f♏ar behind in third spot. 

14:09
Lap 4 of 13

Espargaro ta𝄹kes his first Long Lap and Marquez is now up to third behind Martin and Bezzecchi. 

14:07
Lap 3 of 13

Aleix Espargaro had a double Long🍌 Lap penalty due to jumping the start.

14:07
Lap 3 of 13

Bagnaia is last!!. The world champions has♐ a problem. 

14:04

This is quite incಞredible from Marc Marquez. He's through on Vinales for P4.

14:03
Lap 1 of 13

Fr💞ancesco Bagnaia has made a dreadful start he is 14th!! Marc Marquez has moved up from P13 to sixth. 

14:02

And it's l🅺ights out in the Le Mans MotoGP s𒅌print race. 

14:00

Riders are off on their formation lap!

13:57

We're five minutes away from lights out!

13:43

Good afternoon and welcome back to the French﷽ MotoGP at Le Mans. Coming up in just over 15 minutes is the sprint race. 

10:43

The🌃 MotoGP sprint race at Le Mans will get underway at 14:00pm UK time.

10:33
Martin on pole!

So that's it for Q2 in Le Mans💃 and it's Martin who secures pole ahead of Bagnaia and Vinales. Di Giannantonio heads the second row ahead of Bezzecchi and Espargaro. 

10:30

Aleix Espargaro and Jack Miller have also 🤡crashed out of qualifying. The order won't change.