2025 French MotoGP: Marc Marquez beats lap record to lead Practice
Marc Marquez compl🍰etes Friday clean𝐆 sweep at Le Mans
Marc Marquez topped second practice at the 2025 MotoGP French Grand Prix with a new lap record on his factory Ducat🧸i to complete a Friday clean sweep.
The eight-time world champion set the paceꦯ this morning in FP1 by almost 0.6s over the resꦐt of the field, threatening the strong form he would show in the hour-long afternoon session.
Leading the session early on, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez would pos💮t🉐 a 1m29.855s to set a new lap record on his way to top spot at the chequered flag.
He led the way by 0.177s over an impressive 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo on the factory Yamaha, as he carries on the form he showed at ꩲthe Span🥃ish GP two weeks ago.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia completed the top three and was within 0.2s of team-mate Marc Marquez at🐻 the🐈 end of a promising Friday for the double world champion.
Championship leader Alex Marquez wa🔯s fifth in Practice, but was second-last of the six Ducatis.
Quartararo set the early pace inside the opening 10 min🅠utes of Practice with a 1m30.997s, which was bettered a further 10 minu𒉰tes later by Marc Marquez with a 1m30.886s.
He improved on this to a 1m30.530s with 35 minutes to go, which stood as the benchmark for some time as the field worked on rac꧂e set-up.
With around 10 minutes to go, Quartararo took his Yamaha fitted wi✃th a fresh soft rear to top spot with a 1m30.222s.
But jus๊t behind him, Marc Marquez was lighting up the timing screens on a new soft and broke the lap record with a 1m2♏9.855s.
He elected against a second soft tyre run at the end of the session, with that time going unchallenged through to the che꧒quered flag.
Quartararo cemented second with his fin🌺al lap of 1m30.032s to be Marquez’s nearest challenger, which also denied Ducati a 1-2.
Bagnaia was 0.184s of🌄f his team-mate Marꦦc Marquez in third, while Fermin Aldeguer bested his Gresini team-mate Alex Marquez in fourth.
Jack Miller ensured two Yamahas through to Q2 in sixth for Pramac, while Pedro Acosta led the KTM charge in 🐽seventh ahead of Tech3’s Maverick Vinales - who crashed late on at Turn🥀 9.
Franco Morbidelli was nint꧑h on the VR46-run GP24 Ducati, while Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi snatche▨d the final direct Q2 spot in 10th.
This came at the expense 🎶of Honda’s Luca Marini, who was denied a place in the t𒀰op 10 by 0.053s.
A crash for home hero Johann Zarco for LCR Honda left him in the Q1 places in 12th ahead of Enea Bastianini and Joan Mir, who also crashed his Honda🃏 late on.
Trackhouse Aprilia’s Ai Ogura was another🦄 faller in the session in 16th, while a tumble in the latter stages fಌor KTM’s Brad Binder left him 19th.
