Marquez in ominous form in Le Mans MotoGP practice

Marc Marquez rounded off a perfect run through MotoGP Friday practice with the new best premier-class lap at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit.

Key moments:

• Marquez looks well ahead
• Di Giannantonio struggling
• Yamaha revitalised
• Honda misses out

Marquez was completely untouchable in first practice - setting the five fastest laps and two chalked-off laps that were also good enough for first place - and picked up where he left off in the hour-long second session.

He led the majority of the running and ensured first place with the first sub-1m30s lap of the day, a 1m29.855s that now stands as the MotoGP record lap at the French Grand Prix venue.

His lead, however, was rendered a bit more palatable by the end by late improvements from home hero Fabio Quartararo and Ducati team-mate Pecco Bagnaia - who went 0.177s and 0.184s slower respectively.

Gresini rookie Fermin Aldeguer was a superb fourth, 0.37s off Marquez but 0.04s ahead of the other Marquez, his points-leading Gresini team-mate Alex.

Jack Miller confirmed Yamaha's progress - which has been aided by a new, more powerful engine - with sixth place for Pramac, ahead of KTM riders Pedro Acosta and Maverick Vinales, Vinales slowed by a rare crash in the final minutes.

The final places in the top 10 went to Franco Morbidelli (VR46 Ducati) and Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia).

Advancing to Q2: M Marquez, Quartararo, Bagnaia, Aldeguer, A Marquez, Miller, Acosta, Vinales, Morbidelli, Bezzecchi

Contesting Q1: Marini, Zarco, Bastianini, Mir, Fernandez, Ogura, Rins, Di Giannantonio, Binder, Nakagami, Oliveira, Savadori

Morbidelli's team-mate Fabio Di Giannantonio was the obvious Ducati outlier, lapping over seven tenths off the next-slowest Ducati and ending up a brutal 18th-fastest.

Honda's chances of getting a rider into Q2 were compromised by crashes for Joan Mir and Johann Zarco, while there was also an off for Trackhouse Aprilia rookie Ai Ogura - and a costly one for KTM's Brad Binder.