Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez continued his MotoG🅘P comeback with a good first day at Le Mans as he finished inside the top ten for Repsol Honda.

Marc Marquez was one of a few riders to try and improve on dry tyres during a changing track in FP1, but whilst𝔍 on his outlap, rain started to fall again and therefore had to abandon the idea. 

It didn’t i🔜mpact his ultimate positioning much however, as Marquez finished fifth before settling for eighth in the afternoon on combined times - a position that should be safe for automatic access to Q2. 

In recent years Marquez has raised the bar when it comes to putting a fast lap together on a dam🌳p track with slick tyres. 

Interestingly this was something p🀅ut towards Marquez in his media debrief as he was as𓃲ked whether a fully healthy ‘Marquez’ would have stuck at it in FP1 with the slicks on.

Marquez responded by saying: "It's true that my confidence now is not very high. It's true thꦍat for exampꦜle after Jerez I think at home and everything and I need to take care about the risk at the moment. 

"It's not like I don’t want to take a risk, but to control that risk I'm 🌞not in good physical condition, so some strange movement on the bike, maybe I cannot control like before.

"So I was waiting a bit and I don’t put the slick tyres before because I already had a good lap time on wets. I know that it was time to go to slicks, but I was not the first𓂃 rider, I think I was the third or fourth rider with slicks. 

"But five minutes before, already it was possible to go with slicks. But it's not the time to take a lot of risks in FP1. We will take risks tomorrow in qualifying and then the race, but always try to be inside the limits.ܫ"

Marquez al🎐luded to not being quite as comfortable in the dry, and with wet conditions expected to dominate the remainder of the weekend, it could be just what the 28 year-old needs as the physicality of riding a Moto♉GP bike will be reduced somewhat. 

"My day has been a standard day for my comeback. I🍌 mean in wet conditions I feel not bad at all, it'ꦯs true that it's less demanding physically and I feel better," added Marquez. 

"In the dry I was struggliꦑng, I mean when I stopped in the box and saw P8, I said 'okay, better'. 

"But I was struggling. We tried a few things on the bike in the second run but my feeling was not good, then ⛄I stopped. I thought it was a problem on the bike but it was my problem. I'm still not pr🐓ecise about the comments and feelings. But this is my job, I need to improve there. 

"About the new tyres - just I ride, take care in T1, turn 3 and the change of directions because I was struggling a bit and on the hard b♎rake points like turn 8 I was struggling🥃. 

"But apart from tha👍t we know where we are and even like this we are not very far from the top guys."