2025 French MotoGP: Marc Marquez dominates FP1 on updated Ducati chassis

Marc Marquez topped first practice at Le Mans

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
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Marc Marque꧒z🌊 dominated the opening practice for the 2025 MotoGP French Grand Prix on his factory Ducati as he debuted a new chassis.

The eight-time world champion comes to Le Mans having lost the lead in the championship when he crashed🅷 while running in the podium places at the Spanish GP.

But he put this to the back of his mind on Friday morning at a cold Le Mans as he led the 45-minute FP1 by 0.576s on a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati fitted with an 🐓updated chassis he recently tested💃 at Jerez.

He headed KTM’s Brad Binder, while Spanish GP winner and championship leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez completed the top three ahead of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez set the pace in the early stages of FP1 with a 𝓰1m31.756s, w🐎hich put him top of the order after the first 10 minutes of running.

Alex Marquez would briefly depose him with a 1m31.588s before ꧅his elder brother hit back with a 1m31.26ꦡ3s.

Marc Marquez would get the benchmark down to a 1m31.099s, which would go unchallenged until he be꧑ttered it inꦚ the closing stages with a 1m31.000s.

On a mediu✱m rear tyre with 20 laps on it, he𝄹 cemented top spot with a final effort of 1m30.764s, doing so on an updated chassis.

In FP1, he had one of the ne🌞w chassisᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ and one of the standard ones.

KTM’s Binder, whose bike now resembled Maverickꦑ Vinales’, jumped up to second late on but did so on a fresh medium rear.

Alex Marquez didn’t fit new tyres and 🌌was third at the chequered flag on his Gresini Ducati, while Bagnaia was four💙th.

Ai Ogura jumped up to fifth on his Trackhouse Aprilia with a late fresh medium tyre run, while Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo - running a new engine on his M1 - was sixth having stuck with t💧he same tyres all session.

Franco Morbideওlli was seventh despite a crash at Turn 8, while LCR Honda’s Johann Zarco, Gresini’s Fermin Aldeꦆguer and Tech3’s Vinales rounded out the top 10.

Miguel Oliveira made his return to action with Pramac on Friday morning havi𒉰ng been out since Argentina with injury an♓d was 3.367s off the pace in 21st.

HRC wildcard Takaaki Nakagami was 19th.

Trackhouse Aprilia’s R𓆏aul Fernandez cr🐻ashed at the start of the session, while there was a fall for Yamaha’s Alex Rins at Turn 3.

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