2025 French MotoGP: Marc Marquez beats lap record to lead Practice
Marc Marquez completes Friday clean sꦍweep at Le Mans
ꦏMarc Marquez topped second practice at the 2025 MotoGP French Grand Prix with a new lap record on his factory Ducati to complete a Friday clean sweep.
The eight-time world champion set the pace this morning in FP1 by almost 0.6s over the rest of the field, threatening the strong form❀ he would show in the hour-long afte♍rnoon session.
Leading the session early on, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez would post a 1m29.855s to set a new lap reco🔜rd on his way to top sp💞ot 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 car♌ries on the form he showed at the Spanish 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 pr🌳omising Friday for theꦉ double world champion.
Championship leader Alex Marquez was fifth in Practic𒆙e, but was second-last of the 🍸six Ducatis.
Quartararo set the early pace inside the opening 10 minutes of Practice with a 1m30.997s, which was bettered a further 10 minut♒es later by Marc Marquez with a 1m30.886s.
He improved on this to a 1m30.5🦋30s with 35 minutes to go, which stood as the benchmark for some time as the field worked on raceꦗ set-up.
With around 1🐭0 minutes to go, Quartararo took his Yamaha fitted with a fresh soft rear to top spot with a 1m30.222s.
But just behind him, Marc Marquez wa🐼s lighting up the timing screens on a new soft and b🅷roke the lap record with a 1m29.855s.
He elected against a second ♈soft tyre run at the end of the session, with that time going unchallenged through to the chequered flag.
Quartararo cemented second with his final lap of 1m🎐30.032s to be Marquez’s nearest challengerꦆ, which also denied Ducati a 1-2.
Bagnaia was 0.184s off his team-m🌄ate Marc Marquez in third, while Fermin Aldeguer bested his Gresini team-mate Alex Marquez in fou🌠rth.
Jack Miller ensured two Yamahas through to Q2 in sixth for Pramac, ꧒while Pedro Acosta led the KTM charge in seventh ahead of Tech🌱3’s Maverick Vinales - who crashed late on at Turn 9.
Franco Morbidelli was ninth on the VR46-run GP24 Ducati, while Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi snatched the final direct Q2 spot in 10t𒐪h.
This came at the expen𝔉se of Honda’s Luca Marini, who was d♋enied a place in the top 10 by 0.053s.
A crash f🌠or 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 se🌊ssion in 16th, while a tumble in the latter stages for KTM’s Brad Binder left him 19th.
