Johann Zarco, LCR Honda, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Johann Zarco, LCR Honda, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
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2025 French MotoGP: Friday practice as it happened

Live text coverage of Friday practice at the 2025 MotoGP French Grand Prix

The sixth round of the 2025 MotoGP season takes place on 9-11 May at Le Mans with the Fren🍌ch Grand Prix. 

The championship battle has once again been reset after a dramatic Spanish GP two weeks a🅘go. 

A maiden victory for Gresini Ducati's 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez sees him lead the championship again by a point, capitalising on a second grand prix crash for factory Ducati rider 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez at Jerez. 

Marc Marquez held his hands up to his mistake and admits he cannot continue to make them given the ꦫspeed he has shown all year so far. 

Le Mans has been a happy hunting ground for Ducati, with it unbeaten at the French GP venue since 2020. In the last three yea🥂rs, it has been a place of victory for satellite Ducati riders - something Ale🌳x Marquez will hope to continue this weekend. 

Pecco Bagnaia is confident that changes made to his Ducati in a recent test will help h🔴im find the 𒀰form he needs to take a step forward. 

He comes into the ♑French GP 20 points off the champiဣonship lead after finishing third at Jerez. 

Home fans will be expecting more big things from Fabio Quartararo, after the Yam♕aha rider scored a first podium since 2023 last time out in Spain having also qualified on pole. 

The crowd will also be ho🐈ping to see Johann Zarco up at the sharp end, a🐼s he looks to strengthen his case to make a move to the factory Honda team next season. 

Honda will field a wildcard in the fo🧔rm of Takaaki Nakagami this weekend, while LCR's Somkiat Chantra 🌠is out with injury.

FP1 begins at 🔯9:50am GMT, while Practice is at 2pm GMT.

15:19
Practice report

Read the full Practice report from the 2025 MotoGP French Grand Prix 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:here

15:01
Marc Marquez smashes lap record to top Practice

Marc Marquez holds onto top spot with a new lap record of 1m29.855s, while Quartararo thrills the Fre🔯nch crowd in second for Yamaha. 

Bagnaia is third from Aldeguer and Alex Marquez, whil♚♛e Miller was sixth. Acosta, Vinales, Morbidelli and Bezzecchi completed the top 10.

15:00

Zarco 🧜ha🐷s been bumped out of Q2 thanks to a couple of improvers. 

15:00
Chequered flag

Chequered flag is 🐬ou🧸t. Some riders still on good laps.

14:59

Quartararo jumps up to sec🐈ond with a 1m30.032s. 

14:59
Crash - Brad Binder

Binder has also crashed and is out of Q2. 

14:58
Crash - Johann Zarco

Zarco is down at Turn 9. That's put him in danger of dropping into Q1. He's currently 10th🐲. Yellow flags will cost other people too.

14:57

Aldeguer running well in 🍷third. He's got the measure of his team-mate Alex Marquez so far.

14:57

Bag𝓀naia finds more time to a 1m30.039s, which is a b𒊎ig lap from him. 

14:55

Bagnaia has moved up to third with 𝓀a 1m30.342s. 

14:55

Top 10 with five minutes to go is: 

  1. M.Marquez
  2. Quartararo
  3. Vinales
  4. Bagnaia
  5. A.Marquez
  6. Aldeguer
  7. Zarco
  8. Morbidelli
  9. Bezzecchi
  10. Miller
14:52

Quartararo deserves an immense amount of credit because he's the only rider wi﷽thin 0.4s of Marc Marquez. Vinales is 0.680s behind, Bagnaia is 0.812s behind. 

14:50

But Marc Marquez blows the doors off with a 1m29.855s to set a 🔴new lap record!🍒 

14:50

Quartararo🍌 goes top with a 1m30.222s to go from 10th to firsꦇt. 

14:49

Quartarar🐠o was on a strong lap but backed 🦂out of it. 

14:48
Crash - Maverick Vinales

💟Vinale♛s has gone down at Turn 9. He's fine and is bolting back to pitlane. 

14:46

Vinales narrowly mi🐲sses top spot with a 1m30.535s. 

14:45

The switch to fresh soft rubber has happened and Vinales i♌s up to second with a 1m30.571s. 

14:43

The Frenc💦h crowd is giving Mir a big cheer as he runs up pi🀅tlane. 

14:42
Crash - Joan Mir

Joan Mir has gone down at the penultimate🎃 corner. He's fine.&nꦗbsp;

14:40

Just over 20 minutes to go, so we should be s🀅eeing everyone switching to fresh rubber soon. 

14:32

Still pretty competitive out there. Ducati lea♉ding, KTM second, Yamaha third. 

14:29

Quartararo's pace is seriously impಌressive. He's just ⛦put in a 1m30.993s on a 12-lap soft tyre. 

14:25

Marc M𝓀arquez sets the fastest lap of the day with a 1m30.530s. Nothing wrong with his used tyre pace then!