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# Marquez in ominous form in Le Mans MotoGP practice
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/motogp/le-mans-motogp-second-practice-marc-marquez/
- Published: 2025-05-09T14:07:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-10T07:22:15.000Z
- Description: Marc Marquez rounded off a perfect run through MotoGP Friday practice with the new best premier-class lap at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit
- Author: Valentin Khorounzhiy
- Tags: MotoGP, #image-bottom-left, #marc-marquez

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

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**Key moments:**

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

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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.

> Down goes Maverick as he found the limit 💥[#FrenchGP](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FrenchGP?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) 🇫🇷 [pic.twitter.com/eld2Mx01vK](https://t.co/eld2Mx01vK?ref=the-race.com)
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> — MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) [May 9, 2025](https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1920838827385499938?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

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

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**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

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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.

> 💥 [@JoanMirOfficial](https://twitter.com/JoanMirOfficial?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) loses the front and runs back to the box[#FrenchGP](https://twitter.com/hashtag/FrenchGP?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com) 🇫🇷 [pic.twitter.com/dEv0mi2B30](https://t.co/dEv0mi2B30?ref=the-race.com)
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> — MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) [May 9, 2025](https://twitter.com/MotoGP/status/1920837490342080724?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=the-race.com)

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.

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