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The first day of the MotoGP round at the historic Le Mans circuit in France, saw Jorge Martín lead the way in the first two practice sessions. The current World Championship leader broke the circuit record with a 1:30.388 time. Behind him was reigning world champion Pecco Bagnaia, 0,145s slower.
Pedro Acosta was third, continuing his rapid adaptation to MotoGP, who closed the day ahead of Maverick Viñales, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Jack Miller, Aleix Espargaró, Franco Morbidelli, Marco Bezzechi and Fabio Quartararo in the Top 10.
On Saturday, the MotoGP riders will return to the track at 10:10am (CEST) for FP2. At the end of this free practice, qualifying will begin at 10:50am and the sprint race will take place at 3pm.
More kilometres for Joan Mir and Luca Marini
The Repsol Honda Team riders returned to work at the French Grand Prix. After a day of testing completed in Jerez following the last race, on Friday they tried to continue improving the performance of their Honda RC213V. In the practice sessions, 17 riders finished within the same second.
In the first free practice session, Mir and Marini finished in 21st and 22nd position, respectively. In the afternoon, both took an important step forward in their lap times. Mir was 18th, 1.33 seconds off the top spot.
Marini also improved his times from morning to afternoon, reducing the difference with respect to the frontrunner to 1.472 seconds, for 21st.
| RIDER | TEAM | TIME |
| 1. Jorge Martín | DUCATI | 1:30.388 |
| 2. Pecco Bagnaia | DUCATI | +0.145 |
| 3. Pedro Acosta | GASGAS | +0.187 |
| 4. Maverick Viñales | APRILIA | +0.269 |
| 5. Fabio Di Giannantonio | DUCATI | +0.295 |
| 6. Jack Miller | KTM | +0.311 |
| 7. Aleix Espargaró | APRILIA | +0.326 |
| 8. Franco Morbidelli | DUCATI | +0.375 |
| 9. Marco Bezzecchi | DUCATI | +0.397 |
| 10. Fabio Quartararo | YAMAHA | +0.400 |
| 11. Enea Bastianini | DUCATI | +0.410 |
| 12. Raúl Fernández | APRILIA | +0.451 |
| 13. Marc Márquez | DUCATI | +0.679 |
| 14. Álex Rins | YAMAHA | +0.818 |
| 15. Miguel Oliveira | APRILIA | +0.831 |
| 16. Augusto Fernández | GASGAS | +0.855 |
| 17. Brad Binder | KTM | +0.976 |
| 18. Joan Mir | REPSOL HONDA | +1.133 |
| 19. Álex Márquez | DUCATI | +1.142 |
| 20. Johann Zarco | HONDA | +1.186 |
| 21. Luca Marini | REPSOL HONDA | +1.472 |
| 22. Takaaki Nakagami | HONDA | +1.743 |
Statements
Joan Mir:
“Super tight lap times today and we are not that far, but improving that next second to first is not a simple job. We are working on it, making the most of the package that we have this weekend. The key is to focus on the positives and do our maximum – which is what we did today. So let’s keep it going.”
Luca Marini:
“We need to focus on improving this weekend and arriving to Sunday’s race in the best way possible. That’s the format of how our year is going and we need to keep paying attention. Get faster, get stronger. The weather is nice this weekend, it would be great to keep the situation the same for the whole weekend so we can do the most work.”