There we𓃲re early i🅘ssues for Marc Marquez who swiftly returned to pit lane following his out lap.

The 11-time race winner 🌱at Sachsenring managed to make his way back out after just six minutes of FP1.

At the front of the leaderboard, Jorge Marti🌜n was setting very fast times along with Alexౠ Marquez.

After seeing Martin and brother Alex exchange fastest times, Marc Marq🦹uez made his mark as he went quickest by over two tenths despite having to ไovertake Pedro Acosta at the final corner.

Marque🐎z set a time of 1:21.027s as only three other rider🐼s were within half a second of the eight-time world champion.

Comfortably into the 1m 20s barrier, Marque♓z increased his advantage to over half a secondဣ ahead of his brother, Alex.

It was a slow start to FP1 for Francesco Bagnaia, who was down in 16th place with nearly 20 minut♑es gone.

Looking set to challenge Marquez’s top time, Marti♋n had two red sectors before running wide and into the gravel at turn eight.

Martin the꧂n made a similar mistake just a few corners later as his attempts to match Marquez saw hiꦉm run off at turn one.

After setting just a couple of laps, Aleix Esparga🐎ro decided to pull out this weekend whilst the session was running.

Elecဣting for new soft tyres to end the session, Martin managed to overhaul Marquez b🍸ut only by a tenth of a second.

A very strong FP1💮 then came to a disappointin꧋g end for Marc Marquez as he crashed at turn one. 

There was more drama for Spanish riders late on as Martin returned to pit due to his air bag going off, while 💖Acosta suffered a front-end washouജt at the final corner.