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. 

14:21

Big save from Acosta at the penultimate corner as he l💎oses ground to Espargaro. 

14:21
Lap 12 of13

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

14:18
Lap 10 of 13

Coming und🌜er big pressure from Marque🎉z, Bezzecchi has crashed out!

14:15
Lap 8 of 13

Martin is now well clear of Bezzec♏chi who is now losing time to Marquez.

14:13
Lap 7 of 13

Alex Rins is down after conℱtact we believe with KTM's Brad Binder. 

14:11
Bagnaia update

The w🌊orld champion is out and retired on lܫap 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

Espargaro tꦺakes 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 jumpiಌng the start.

14:07
Lap 3 of 13

B﷽agnaia is last!!. The w🔥orld champions has a problem. 

14:04

This is quite incrediꦺble from Marc Marquez. He's through on Vinales🍎 for P4.

14:03
Lap 1 of 13

Francesco Bagnaia has made a dreadfu꧃l start🐟 he is 14th!! Marc Marquez 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. Comi🧸ng up i🀅n just over 15 minutes is the sprint race. 

10:43

The MotoGP sprint race at Le Mans will get underway ꦜat 14:00pm UK time.

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 Giannantonio heads the second row ahead of Bezzecchi and Es𓃲pargaro. 

10:30

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