Quartararo Le Mans MotoGP
Quartararo Le Mans MotoGP

French MotoGP at Le Mans: Sprint race as it happened

Recap Saturday's MotoGP action at Le Mans.

14:23
Top nine

Martin, Marquez, Vinales, Bastianini💖, Espargaro, Acosta, Di Giannantonio, Miller, Raul✤ Fernandez.

14:23
Martin wins another sprint, his second at Le Mans

Martin has done it once again. The Spaniard is the sprint king again at Le🍎 Mans as he wins from Marc Marquez and Vinales.&🦩nbsp;

14:21

Big save from Acosta at the penultimate cor🌞ner as he loses ground to Espargaro. 

14:21
Lap 12 of13

Martin lead👍s Marquez by over two seconds following Bezzecchi's crash. Bastianini is catching Vinales for third. 

14:18
Lap 10 of 13

Coming under big pres🐻sure from Marquez, Bezzecchi has𒁏 crashed out!

14:15
Lap 8 of 13

Martin is now ﷽well clear of Bezzecchi who is now lo♑sing time to Marquez.

14:13
Lap 7 of 13

Al♛ex Rinಞs is down after contact we believe with KTM's Brad Binder. 

14:11
Bagnaia update

The world champion ෴is out and retire🌱d on lap 3 of the race. 

14:10
Lap 5 of 13

Bezzecchi is closing in on Martin and Marquez is not that🎃 far behind in third spot. 

14:09
Lap 4 of 13

Espar🅠garo takes his first Long Lap and Marquez is now up to third behind Martin and Bezzecchi. ꧋;

14:07
Lap 3 of 13

Aleix Espargaro had a double Long 💞Lap penalty due to jumping🙈 the start.

14:07
Lap 3 of 13

Bagnai𝓀a is last!!. The world champions has a problem. 

14:04

Tꦇhis is quite incredible from Marc Marquez. He's through on Vinales for🀅 P4.

14:03
Lap 1 of 13

Francesco🧜 Bagnaia has made a dreadful start he is 14th!! Marc M🌄arquez has moved up from P13 to sixth. 

14:02

And it's lights out in ⛎the Le Mans MotoGP sprint race. 

14:00

Riders are off on their formation lap!

13:57

We're five minutes away from lights out!

13:43

Good afternoon and welcome back to the French MotoGP at Le Mans. Coming up in just over 15 minutes is the spri🎃nt race. 

10:43

The MotoGP sprint race at Le Ma꧑ns will get underway at 14:00pm UK ti𒁏me.

10:33
Martin on pole!

So that's it for Q2 in Le Mans and it's Martin who secures pole ahead of Bagnaia and Vinales. Di Giannantonio𒉰 heads the second row ahead of Bezzecchi and Espargaro🔴. 

10:30

Aleix Espar𝓡garo and Jack Miller have also crashed out of qualifying. The order won't change.